The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 Implementation Status & Results Sudan Community Development Fund (P094476) Public Disclosure Copy Operation Name: Community Development Fund (P094476) Project Stage: Implementation Seq.No: 11 Status: ARCHIVED Archive Date: 19-Aug-2013 Country: Sudan Approval FY: 2006 Product Line: Recipient Executed Activities Region: AFRICA Lending Instrument: Emergency Recovery Loan Implementing Agency(ies): Key Dates Board Approval Date 10-Dec-2005 Original Closing Date 30-Jun-2011 Planned Mid Term Review Date Last Archived ISR Date 19-Jan-2013 Effectiveness Date 26-Apr-2006 Revised Closing Date 30-Jun-2013 Actual Mid Term Review Date 11-Nov-2007 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objective of the Project is to increase access to priority economic and social services and infrastructure in war-affected and underdeveloped areas of Northern Sudan, including the three areas. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project? � Yes No Component(s) Component Name Component Cost Community Development subprojects 35.80 Capacity Bld., M&E, Project Mgt 7.00 Overall Ratings Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Public Disclosure Copy Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Low Low Implementation Status Overview The Community Development Fund Project has achieved all substantive aspects of the project targets, development objectives, and performance monitoring indicators set out in the project document. To date, the number of projects approved by CDF has reached a total of 1091 subprojects of which 1085 completed and six subprojects stopped due to conflict in Tolodi Locality. The completed education, health, water supply and village photovoltaic solar energy facilities have improved access to education, health and water supply services for over two million people. The following are some of the achievements of the project: 1. Education- Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 a. Improved accessibility to basic education services as a result of rehabilitation, construction and provision of decks and school furniture to 594 primary schools (with 3010 classrooms) and 267 teachers’ houses. The completed schools are providing services to 182,740 (78,949 Girls and 103,791 boys) and the teachers residences built helped to attract and retain teachers in remote areas. Given over 70 percent of the schools rehabilitated /built by CDF were teaching in temporary shelter built from local materials or under a tree in some cases, schools with permanent building structures and essential facilities including desks, toilets, hand washing basin and fences represent significant improvements in Public Disclosure Copy quality of education infrastructure. In addition, the improved school facilities contributed to the increased enrollment rates of children to primary schools. b. Over 110 schools and teachers residences are powered with photovoltaic solar energy which facilitates studying at night for students as well as allowing teachers to prepare for their lesson plans which in turn improved quality of education. 2. Health a. One hundred eight health facilities have been completed and are providing health services to 562,303 people (265,160 males and 297,144 females) in the four states targeted by CDF. Sixty four of the health facilities have health workers residence which serves as an incentive to attract and retain health workers in remote and underserved areas; and 69 health facilities are powered by photovoltaic solar system which facilitates availability of health services at night, refrigerated storage facilities for drugs and vaccines, and solar lanterns for midwives in order to facilitate service delivery at night. b. To address the shortage of health workers CDF has supported the training of 273 midwives and contributed to the efforts of government to increase the availability of skilled health workers in rural areas; the trainees were selected from the villages where CDF financed the construction or rehabilitation of health facilities and after their graduation returned to their villages to serve the community. 3. Village Photovoltaic solar energy a. CDF financed the installation of Photo voltaic (PV) solar systems in public facilities such as schools, health facilities, religious establishments and village streets has improved the access and quality of basic social services in 171 communities. As indicated above under the education and health subprojects the installation of the PV solar system in schools and teachers residences has improved the learning and teaching process. In addition, PV solar street lighting systems have contributed to the security of the villages, served as gathering places for reading, created informal meeting places during Ramadan and sanctioned spaces to socialize with peers. 4. Water Supply a. The completed 181 water supply subprojects are providing clean water to 596,734 people (Males: 284,170, Females: 298,463) and their animals, with easy access to the village, which in turn reduce the burden on women and girls traveling long distances to fetch water. CDF supported communities own and manage the water supply scheme that has been constructed or rehabilitated with the support of CDF. The Communities have also agreed with the State Water Corporation to share the revenue from the user fee that would be collected by the community. Under this arrangement the revenue is shared 60:40 between the State Water Corporation and communities. The 40 % revenue retained by the communities is used for minor maintenance and expansion of the scheme. This arrangement has dramatically increased the sustainability of the water supply systems owned by the community. 5. Capacity Building Capacity building, monitoring and evaluation activities implemented are instrumental for the successful implementation of the CDF project and strengthening of capacity at community and local government levels for planning, implementation, management and resource mobilization for development. Establishing and strengthening community structure was the main activities financed by CDF throughout the project life. In addition, to complement the community structures the CDF project also supported the capacity building of local government officials. Capacity building activities empowered communities and local government entities to take the leading role in identification and prioritization of their needs and implementation of project activities. The following are some of the outcomes of the capacity building interventions: Public Disclosure Copy (i) Communities played leading role in identification and prioritization of their needs and implementation of project activities. The 616 communities befitted from CDF developed community action Plan which outlined their needs and priorities. Seventy seven of the communities (i.e. 12%) implemented the project they identified through their community committees using community contracting method; (ii) Communities also own and manage community infrastructure including water supply schemes and village solar power; mechanisms to generate funds through user fees and community contributions and community management committees that manages the fund are put in place by the community to ensure effective O&M of community infrastructures; (iii) Communities mobilized local resources and contributed SDG 13. 9 million to the cost of projects. This is the last ISR for the project. At present the project’s performance on reaching its development objectives and implementation progress are both rated satisfactory. The following paragraphs summarize the status of the project in terms of relevance, achievement of project development objectives and efficiency, the three criteria by which the project will be assessed in the Implementation Completion Report (ICR). Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 1. Relevance The relevance of the project is rated as High. Public Disclosure Copy (i) Relevance of objectives. The project’s development objectives, both the original and revised versions, are highly relevant to the Government of Sudan’s efforts to address the prevailing wide regional disparities in access to basic social services particularly education, health and water supply and sanitation services. These basic social services were identified (by the joint assessment by the World Bank and the United Nations in 2005) as priority area for the reconstruction and development initiatives in the war affected and under developed areas of Sudan. The CDF project has contributed to narrowing the gap on the geographic disparities that are the defining characteristic of access to basic services in North Sudan, through expanding access to health, education and water in disadvantaged parts of the country. (ii) Relevance of design. Program design was relevant given that CDF has been designed to align its implementation with regular government structure to avoid a complete parallel structure which undermines government capacity and leaves a big gap upon project closing. To this effect, all the staff (except the Managers) at the Local Implementation unit are government employees who will be going back to the local government planning unit with all the equipment and vehicles of the CDF Local Implementation Unit. The training of local government leaders and the learning by doing which was promoted by CDF will facilitate the smooth transfer of all CDF resources, approaches and objectives to local government (iii) Relevance of Implementation. As the project was implemented, it remained relevant to the country in general and the project areas in particular. The project provided badly needed basic social infrastructure and empowered communities and local government putting them in charge of their own development, by driving the process and giving them control over decisions and allocations of resources. 2. Achievement of Project Development Objectives The achievement of the Project Development Objectives is rated as Substantial. As of May 31, 2013, the CDF’s achievements include: (i) Reaching 2,441,080 total beneficiaries across all project activities (against a target of 2,621,794); (ii) Completing 3010 additional classrooms (against target of 2736) that provide access to primary education to 182,740 pupils (against target of 164,098 pupils). In addition the project built 267 teachers houses against the target of 220 (iii) Completing 108 health facilities (against the target of 105); trained 275 Midwives (against the target of 235); providing services to 562300 people (against the target of 774050); (iv) Completed 181 water supply schemes (against the target of 178) providing services to 596,730 against the target of 553860). All the water supply schemes are managed and operated by the community with technical support from State Water Authority ; (v) completed 171 installation of village solar energy to power community and social infrastructure in the villages against the target of 148; (vi) empowered communities and local government to be the leading role in identification and prioritization of their needs and implementation of project activities. 3. Efficiency – The CDF project management has commissioned a study to review the cost of education, health and water supply subprojects implanted under the CDF project. The study will compare the costs of CDF implemented subprojects with costs quality and implementation time of similar infrastructure implemented by the public sector. The Public Disclosure Copy administrative cost for implementing the CDF was 13 percent of total project costs; the 13 percent administration cost is within the range of norms for CDD operations elsewhere. For example, Araral and Holmemo (2007) noted administrative costs of 19 percent in the Bank-supported KALAHI-CIDSS Project in the Philippines. The project implementation- Although overall CDF project implementation has come to an end without major implementation problems the following challenges faced by the project during its implementation are worth to note: (a) delays in transfer of counterpart fund from government to the project- although the CDF project received the best support from Government of Sudan, compared to any other Government co-financed projects, delays of counterpart fund release from MoF has been a recurring problem and sometimes slowed down the implementation pace of the project; and (b) difficult and lengthy procurement process- particularly CDF faced difficulties in completing International Competitive Bidding processes in time. One ICB procurement for solar energy component failed after two years of procurement process mainly due to the international embargo on Sudan and limited capacity of local contractors. The CDF project has gone through two additional financing and three extension of closing date during its entire seven years of implementation. The main reason for the additional Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 financing was unmet demand for construction and rehabilitation of basic social infrastructure in the project area while the closing date extensions were needed to allow the project to complete project activities. Public Disclosure Copy Locations No Location data has been entered Results Project Development Objective Indicators Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Girls and boys under 15 years enrolled in Number Value 80800.00 182740.00 164098.00 targeted communities Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments Female Number Value 16160.00 78949.00 67354.00 Sub Type Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Breakdown Comments Male Number Value 64640.00 103791.00 96744.00 Sub Type Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Breakdown Comments People with access to a basic package of Number Value 212200.00 562303.00 774056.00 health, nutrition, or reproductive health services Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 (number) Comments Number of people in rural areas provided with Number Value 220123.00 596734.00 553863.00 access to Improved Water Sources under the Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 project Comments Satisfaction with delivery of basic social Percentage Value 0.00 75.00 90.00 services Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Public Disclosure Copy Comments N/A Direct project beneficiaries Number Value 0.00 2141080.00 2621794.00 Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments Female beneficiaries Percentage Value 0.00 51.00 51.00 Sub Type Supplemental Intermediate Results Indicators Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Number of additional classrooms built or Number Value 0.00 3010.00 2736.00 rehabilitated at the primary level resulting from Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Public Disclosure Copy project interventions. Comments Health workers trained pre-service to minimum Text Value 0 273 235 qualifications and certifications requirements Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 (numbers) Comments Schools with teachers' dormitories Number Value 7.00 267.00 220.00 Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2012 Comments Health facilities constructed, renovated, and/or Number Value 0.00 108.00 105.00 equipped (number) Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2012 Comments Health facilities with functioning cold chain Number Value 0.00 69.00 95.00 equipment Date 01-Feb-2006 30-Jun-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments Improved community water points constructed Number Value 0.00 181.00 178.00 or rehabilitated under the project Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments communities with functional PV solar system Number Value 0.00 171.00 148.00 for community infrastructure Date 01-Feb-2006 30-Jun-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments Community Action Plans prepared in a Number Value 616.00 616.00 participatory approach and approved Date 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments No Community initiative implemented in project area before Public Disclosure Copy Community members (by gender) that express Percentage Value 80.00 80.00 satisfaction with participation and decision Date 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 making process at community level Comments The participatory approach was introduced to the community through the project and no baseline on this indicator Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 Built/rehabilitated community infrastructure that Number Value 0.00 289.00 270.00 is managed by Community committee Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments Community infrastructure Public Disclosure Copy managed by Community committee include water supply and Village solar systems Constructed/ rehabilitated Water community Percentage Value 181.00 178.00 points with user fees covering O&M Date 31-May-2013 30-Jun-2013 Comments All water points were owned All community water supply and managed by the State schemes are owned & Water Corporation managed by the community; they all have management committee, collect contributionsor user fees and have trained technicians Built/ rehabilitated Health Facilities/Schools in Percentage Value 100.00 100.00 which Localities sign agreement taking Date 31-May-2013 responsibility of O&M Comments Schools and health facilities All education and health are managed by the local facilities built by the support of government and no CDF are handed over to local agreement between govt and government after signing community M&O agreement between local government, Community and CDF Community Development initiatives fully Percentage Value 0.00 13.00 25.00 implemented by CBOs according to plan Date 01-Feb-2006 31-May-2013 Comments Around 13% of the community subprojects are fully implemented by the beneficiary community Public Disclosure Copy committees through community contracting Data on Financial Performance (as of 09-May-2013) Financial Agreement(s) Key Dates Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Original Closing Date Revised Closing Date P094476 TF-56030 Closed 16-Jan-2006 16-Jan-2006 26-Apr-2006 31-Dec-2008 30-Jun-2012 P122502 TF-98070 Closed 26-Oct-2010 02-Nov-2010 02-Nov-2010 30-Jun-2011 30-Jun-2013 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR10789 Disbursements (in Millions) Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P094476 TF-56030 Closed USD 42.80 42.80 0.00 42.80 0.00 100.00 P122502 TF-98070 Closed USD 10.00 10.00 0.00 9.23 0.77 92.00 Public Disclosure Copy Disbursement Graph Key Decisions Regarding Implementation None Restructuring History Level two Approved on 21-Jun-2011 Public Disclosure Copy Related Projects P122502-Community Development Fund Additional Financing Page 7 of 7