The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) Combined Project Information Documents / Integrated Safeguards Datasheet (PID/ISDS) Appraisal Stage | Date Prepared/Updated: 13-Apr-2021 | Report No: PIDISDSA28594 Feb 13, 2020 Page 1 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) BASIC INFORMATION OPS_TABLE_BASIC_DATA A. Basic Project Data Country Project ID Project Name Parent Project ID (if any) Senegal P173344 Senegal Safety Net AF P133597 Parent Project Name Region Estimated Appraisal Date Estimated Board Date Senegal Safety Net operation AFRICA WEST 22-Apr-2021 15-Jun-2021 Practice Area (Lead) Financing Instrument Borrower(s) Implementing Agency Social Protection & Jobs Investment Project Republic of Senegal Unité de Coordination du Financing PAFS Proposed Development Objective(s) Parent The development objectives of the proposed Project are to support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety net system and to provide targeted cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households. Components Support to the Development of the Social Safety Net System Support to Targeted Cash Transfer Programs for Poor and Vulnerable Households PROJECT FINANCING DATA (US$, Millions) SUMMARY -NewFin1 Total Project Cost 110.00 Total Financing 110.00 of which IBRD/IDA 80.00 Financing Gap 0.00 DETAILS -NewFinEnh1 World Bank Group Financing International Development Association (IDA) 80.00 IDA Credit 40.00 IDA Grant 40.00 Non-World Bank Group Financing Feb 13, 2020 Page 2 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) Trust Funds 30.00 SAHEL ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAM 30.00 Environmental Assessment Category C-Not Required Decision The review did authorize the team to appraise and negotiate Other Decision (as needed) B. Introduction and Context Country Context Senegal has been committed for some 15 years to the protection of vulnerable groups. After becoming aware of the problem in the early 2000s as part of the diagnosis made during the participatory formulation process of the Poverty Reduction Strategic Papers I, Senegal made the protection of vulnerable groups a strategic focus of the country's development. The government has focused the Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE) and its National Economic and Social Development Strategy for the period 2013-2017 (SNDES) on the development of a social safety nets system aimed to ensure a response to chronic poverty and to protect vulnerable populations from shocks. The first National Social Protection Strategy (SNPS) was drafted in 2005 for an initial 10-year period, and has since then been extended twice, with the current SNPS guiding the sector until 2035. The long- term objective of the SNPS is "to build a social protection system accessible to all Senegalese women and men, providing everyone with a guaranteed minimum income and health coverage, as well as a comprehensive safety net ensuring resilience to all those who suffer from shocks and crises that can push them into poverty". The strategy identifies five strategic objectives based on the life cycle. Each objective contributes to one or more of the social protection objectives identified in the PSE. Sectoral and Institutional Context Since 2012, the Government of Senegal has been laying the foundations of a well-functioning social protection system. The General Delegation for Social Protection and National Solidarity (DGPSN) was created in 2012 to coordinate the social protection sector, formulate social protection policies, and implement interventions. Senegal’s national cash transfer program (the Programme National de Bourses de Sécurité Familiale, PNBSF), was initiated in 2013 and currently covers 300,000 beneficiary households. It provides nationwide transfers of 25,000 CFA (US$40,85) per quarter per household, along with behavior change promotion sessions in health, education and civil registration. On-the-ground facilitation of cash Feb 13, 2020 Page 3 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) transfers and accompanying measures is provided by NGOs contracted by the government using project funds. Women are prioritized to be the recipient of the cash transfer within the household and make up 63 percent of recipients. The Government is covering the costs of the cash transfers themselves with a dedicated line in the domestic budget. Senegal’s social registry (Registre National Unique, RNU) was set up in 2013 to respond to PNBSF’s targeting needs. It initially covered 450,000 poor households nationwide. The RNU has been updated and extended in 2020 and now reaches approximately 550,000 households – about 30 percent of the population. In more recent year the government has developed its capacity to provide temporary social assistance in response to large covariate shocks. To provide an efficient response to food insecurity, for instance, a pilot was implemented during the lean season 2017, building on existing program infrastructure including the RNU, the PNBSF’s payment system, and the network of social workers. Timely and well-targeted food assistance was delivered through cash transfers to affected households. Based on this success the government adopted the same methodology to coordinate the response in 2018. Another pilot was also successfully implemented to respond to fires in 2019, and the same mechanism (using the RNU for targeting and cash transfers) was triggered by the President in September 2020 to provide rapid assistance to households affected by floods. In total, 15,000 households received shock-responsive cash transfers in less than a month. To boost the resilience or the poor and vulnerable, the Government has also piloted programs to develop the productive capacities of PNBSF beneficiary households. A productive package of activities, the Yook Kom Kom project, was implemented in six departments for a total of 10,300 households. The recipient of the cash transfer, most often a woman, participated in a program of six accompanying measures boosting financial inclusion, training and economic empowerment. The Government decided to expand the productive program to another 4,400 households in three additional departments in 2019 and is looking to scale it up further as part of post-COVID19 recovery efforts. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture has also approached the DGPSN to increase the resilience of poor small-scale farmers by using the safety net system to improve access by poor and vulnerable households to the distribution process of the subsidized inputs. A joint pilot was carried out in 2019, using the RNU to target the distribution of subsidized agricultural inputs and deploying awareness and information campaigns as well as technical training on agriculture practices. C. Proposed Development Objective(s) Original PDO The development objectives of the proposed Project are to support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety net system and to provide targeted cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households. Current PDO The objectives of the Project are to: (a) support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety net system; and (b) increase the access of poor and vulnerable households to targeted and adaptive cash transfers programs. Jan 24, 2020 Page 4 of !Syntax Error, ! The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) Key Results D. Project Description The proposed Additional Financing would be the third Additional Financing to the parent project (Social Safety Net Project P133597). To date, the project has been financed through: (a) an initial IDA Credit 5433-SN approved in April, 2014 in the amount of US$40.5; (b) an Adaptive Social Protection MDTF Grant No. TF0A2489 approved in October 2016 in the amount of US$11.05 million; and (c) a second IDA-funded Additional Financing (IDA Credit 6364-SN) approved in October 2018 in the amount of US$57 million. The original project (P133597) is progressing in a satisfactory manner towards its objectives. The objectives of the original project were to: (a) support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety net system; and (b) increase the access of poor and vulnerable households to targeted and adaptive cash transfers programs. The original project supported the establishment of the key components of Senegal’s adaptive safety net system: the social registry (RNU), the cash transfer program (PNBSF), operational pilots for shock response programs, productive inclusion measures and access to agricultural inputs; capacity across the social protection sector. At the time of the latest ISR (December 2020), the project was rated Satisfactory in terms of progress towards achievement of the PDO, overall Implementation Progress, implementation of its two components and project management. The proposed Additional Financing will continue to contribute to the PDO and will follow the same institutional arrangements and structure of the parent project. The proposed Additional Financing focuses on the scale-up and further consolidation of a sustainable and efficient national social safety net system in Senegal that can decrease the vulnerability of the poorest and most vulnerable households to climate-related and other shocks. As such, it will allocate resources to sub-component 1.3 “consolidation of the RNU� to support the expansion of the social register to 1 million vulnerable households; sub- component 2.1 to cover the scale-up of shock-responsive assistance in response to the Covid-19 crisis, food insecurity and floods; sub-component 2.2 to expand productive inclusion measures in climate- vulnerable areas; sub-component 2.4 to help vulnerable farmers access subsidized agricultural inputs. Component 1: Support to the Development of the Safety Net System This component’s objective is to consolidate core tools of the national social safety net system and promote their use by an increasing number of programs. As a result of this component, we expect the safety net system to be able to respond to shocks due to climate change and limit their negative impacts on the poorest households. Sub-component 1.3: Consolidation of the National Unique Registry (RNU). The sub-component will receive an additional US$1.7 million to finance the universal expansion of the RNU to include 1 million households. The additional financing will support the expansion effort from currently 580,000 households to reach the intended 1 million households by 2022. Component 2: Support to targeted cash transfer programs for poor and vulnerable households The objective of this component is to improve key features of the PNBSF to maximize its impact on the Jan 24, 2020 Page 5 of !Syntax Error, ! The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) resilience of beneficiaries. Interventions aimed at reducing the impact of shocks on poor and vulnerable households must take place after the shocks (ex-post) to protect human capital and productive assets and avoid the adoption of negative coping strategies with detrimental long-term impacts, and before the shocks (ex-ante) by improving household’s coping capacity through stronger livelihoods and greater diversification of income sources. Sub-component 2.1: Transfers to beneficiaries: This sub-component will receive an additional US$100 million to scale up cash-based temporary assistance to: (a) the poor and vulnerable populations affected by the Covid-19 economic shock; and (b) secure the Government’s capacity to provide full-scale responses to climate shocks (food insecurity due to droughts, floods and fires) in 2021 and 2022. Sub-component 2.2: Productive inclusion measures: This sub-component will receive an additional US$5.0 million to support the implementation of productive inclusion measures to PNBSF beneficiaries in rural areas and other areas most vulnerable to climate-related shocks. Sub-component 2.4: Cash transfers to support the productivity and climate resilience of farmers: This sub-component will receive US$3.3 million from the proposed Additional Financing to facilitate access by poor farmers to the existing distribution program of climate-smart subsidized agricultural input managed every year by the Ministry of Agriculture, thereby enhancing their productivity and resilience to climatic shocks. The project is not expected to have any negative social impacts. On the contrary, it focuses on providing the poorest and most vulnerable with a panoply of services to improve their living conditions and promote their economic development. Particular attention will be paid to the process of selection of participants and beneficiaries, to ensure equity as well as a Grievance Redress Mechanism in order to increase the accountability of the safety nets system. Also, particular attention will be paid to ensuring the participation of women, and to ensure all activities are gender-sensitive and maximize their impact of the situations of women and girls. Finally, activities focused on promoting investments in the human capital of children and good practices around productive activities will pay particular attention to dimensions where gender gaps are observed, in addition to overall low outcomes. The Project is classified as Environment Category C. It is not expected to have any negative environmental impacts. . F. Project location and Salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) The Project will support a program with national coverage. There are not characteristics particularly relevant to safeguard analysis. Jan 24, 2020 Page 6 of !Syntax Error, ! The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) G. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists on the Team Ahmed Fall, Environmental Specialist Mamadou Moustapha Ndoye, Social Specialist SAFEGUARD POLICIES THAT MIGHT APPLY SAFEGUARD _TBL Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) Environmental Assessment OP/BP 4.01 No Performance Standards for Private Sector No Activities OP/BP 4.03 Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04 No Forests OP/BP 4.36 No Pest Management OP 4.09 No Physical Cultural Resources OP/BP 4.11 No Indigenous Peoples OP/BP 4.10 No Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP 4.12 No Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 No Projects on International Waterways No OP/BP 7.50 Projects in Disputed Areas OP/BP 7.60 No KEY SAFEGUARD POLICY ISSUES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT OPS_SAFEGUARD_SUMMARY_TBL A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: The project does not trigger any safeguard policies since the activities do not cause any adverse environmental or social impacts. No physical infrastructure will be financed, and the component activities also do not have any physical footprint. In this regard, the project is classified as a Category C, according to World Bank Safeguards Policies since it is unlikely to have any adverse environmental impacts. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: The project activities will not involve any environmental footprints. However, if the design and activities changes over Feb 13, 2020 Page 7 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) the project lifetime, the environmental safeguards categorization will need to be reevaluated. 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. NA 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. The activities on the RNU involve manipulation and management of personal data, which is subject to a legal framework provided for by law n ° 2008-12 of 25 January 2008 on the protection of personal data and by the implementing decree n ° 2008-721 of June 30, 2008. Data is stored on secured servers hosted by Senegal’s IT Agency (Agence de l’Informatique de l’Etat - ADIE). Any request to use data is submitted to the formal authorization of the Commission for the Protection of Personal Information. Digital payments through mobile accounts will be prioritized, to promote financing inclusion and enhance security of payments. Some exceptions might arise in areas with no internet/phone coverage and for households not meeting the national know-your-costumer (KYC) standards. While low, the risks of Gender Based Violence (GBV) will be mitigated following the Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEA/SH) Action Plan. Implementing actors, specially the social workers, will be sensitized to the importance of minimizing the GBV risks by ensuring a safe environment and adopting GBV sensitive communications. The grievance redress mechanism (GRM) has multiple channels to initiate a complaint and will develop specific procedures for GBV. GBV risks will be regularly monitored and evaluated during the operation. The project has made significant progress toward establishing a functioning GRM system and 73 percent of complaints are addressed. However, timeliness remains an issue and the program’s communication capacity to beneficiaries and the larger public remains limited. The GRM will be enhanced and a communication plan on the system developed and implemented. The GRM will be managed by a transversal unit which will serve the RNU, the PNBSF and shock response programs. No safeguards instruments are to be prepared 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. The main stakeholders are : poor and vulnerable households to targeted, vulnerable farmers, women, vulnerable youth (15-25 youths), households in areas highly vulnerable to climate shocks, households affected by floods and fires. The project will set up a Grievances Redress Mechanism (GRM) including provisions to mitigate Gender Based Violence (GBV), Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEA/SH) Action Plan. The project will support the Government’s communication strategy. OPS_SAFEGUARD_DISCLOSURE_TBL B. Disclosure Requirements (N.B. The sections below appear only if corresponding safeguard policy is triggered) OPS_COMPLIANCE_INDICATOR_TBL C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level (to be filled in when the ISDS is finalized by the project decision meeting) (N.B. The sections below appear only if corresponding safeguard policy is triggered) OPS_ PDI_ COMP_TA BLE Feb 13, 2020 Page 8 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) OPS_ALL_COMP_TABLE CONTACT POINT World Bank Thomas Bossuroy Senior Economist Borrower/Client/Recipient Republic of Senegal Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo Minister of Finances and Budget sfall@minfinances.sn Implementing Agencies Unité de Coordination du PAFS FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20433 Telephone: (202) 473-1000 Web: http://www.worldbank.org/projects APPROVAL Task Team Leader(s): Thomas Bossuroy Feb 13, 2020 Page 9 of 10 The World Bank Senegal Safety Net AF (P173344) Approved By Safeguards Advisor: Nathalie S. Munzberg 28-Apr-2021 Practice Manager/Manager: Jehan Arulpragasam 29-Apr-2021 Country Director: Luc Lecuit 29-Apr-2021 Feb 13, 2020 Page 10 of 10