The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) AFRICA WEST | Niger | Governance Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2014 | Seq No: 12 | ARCHIVED on 29-Jun-2021 | ISR46828 | Implementing Agencies: Republic of Niger, Ministry of Finance Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 31-Mar-2014 Effectiveness Date: 29-Sep-2014 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 29-Oct-2018 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 31-Oct-2018 Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2018 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2021 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The project development objective is to strengthen public investment management capacity and civil servant performance evaluation processes in targeted ministries in order to improve service delivery outcomes Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The revised project development objective is "to strengthen public finance and human resource management to improve service delivery capacity in selected sectors". Components Table Name Improve Human Resources Management:(Cost $15.00 M) Strengthening Public Financial Management:(Cost $12.90 M) Change Management:(Cost $12.10 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions The Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery (PCDS) Project became effective on September 29, 2014. The seven-year project is financed through a US$40 million International Development Association (IDA) credit. The PCDS’s Project Development Objective (PDO) is to strengthen public finance and human resource management to improve service delivery capacity in selected sectors. Progress towards achievement of the PDO of the PCDS project is currently rated as Moderately Satisfactory. Three (3) 6/29/2021 Page 1 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) out of 5 PDO indicators have been met. The exceptions are the PDO indicator on expenditure outturn in education and health and the indicator on the implementation of Western African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) directives on Public Finance Management. The first one has not achieved its target (63.36 percent compared to a target of 30 percent), due to Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency expenditures requiring significant unplanned budget reallocation. The second one is progressing well having reached 79 percent in December 2020 against an end target of 80 percent. The 2021 achievement of this indicator will only become available in November 2021. Overall Implementation Progress (IP) is rated as Satisfactory. The project’s main achievements to date are summarized as follows: i. the national budget has been adopted and executed on a program basis since January 2018. ii. the civil servants’ biometric census is completed with an extension to the security sector since the beginning of 2021. iii. the software SICA and STAR (dematerialization of the Treasury operation) have been implemented allowing improvements in transparency, payments delays and fraud issues. iv. 6,745 public agents had been trained and certified on public finance management which improves the quality of the human resources in the country for better service delivery. v. the Tax and Customs General Directorates capacity has been strengthened in tax evaluation and performance improvement. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Substantial Substantial Macroeconomic -- Low Low Sector Strategies and Policies -- Low Low Technical Design of Project or Program -- Low Low Institutional Capacity for Implementation and -- Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary -- Low Low Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Moderate Moderate Other -- Low Low Overall -- Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Improved Human Resource Management of Civil Service IN00996469 ►Share of public sector agents paid through the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 6/29/2021 Page 2 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) Value 25.00 99.43 98.40 85.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 Improved Public Finance Management IN00996470 ►Expenditure outturn in education and health (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 45.00 56.33 63.36 30.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 COVID-19 pandemic response required significant unplanned budget reallocation and therefore affected Comments: the indicator. IN00996516 ►VAT efficiency (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 30.00 42.32 36.23 34.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 IN00996517 ►Access of the public to the budget documentation (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 20.00 52.00 100.00 52.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2019 01-Jan-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996518 ►Implementation of WAEMU directives on Public Finance Management (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 60.00 74.33 79.00 80.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 31-Dec-2019 31-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 The 2021 indicator will be available in November 2021. Comments: Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Improve Human Resources Management IN00996519 6/29/2021 Page 3 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) ►HR and wage regulations, procedures and information management systems (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target The TA has produced all the required deliverables The TA has produced to update the HR all the required management and deliverables to update information systems as the HR management HRMIS deployed in well as the framework for and information targeted Ministries an integrated system. A systems as well as the (Finance, Plan, Civil contract for its framework for an Service and implementation was Value Obsolete RF integrated system. Administrative negotiated for an amount However, the COVID Reforms, Health and of 750 million FCFA. pandemic and Education (basic, However, the COVID restructuration of the secondary and higher) pandemic and project have led to the at the regional level restructuration of the cancellation of the project have led to the implementation of the cancellation of the integrated system. implementation of the integrated system. Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996522 ►Biometric census of public sector agents (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Enrollment operations were paused March 27, Biometric census of 2020 due to COVID-19, public agents is Audit report of 2019 Value No census restarted in June 2020, completed and the HRMIS exercise and completed in Oct data cleaning is available 2020. The data cleaning ongoing. has begun. Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 The database cleaning will be finalized no later than end of October as all required information are available and the team has an action plan. Comments: IN00996524 ►Public sector agents trained (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1,856.00 6,745.00 1,250.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996526 Public sector agents trained of which women (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 638.00 1,835.00 300.00 Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996527 6/29/2021 Page 4 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) ►Pilot incentive system for improving staff deployment in the education sector (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target In April 2020, the The pilot was delayed deployment strategy in due to COVID19 and the health and education Impact assessment the reorganization of sectors was validated. and strategy to scale- Value Not available the Ministry of The pilot was delayed up the pilot incentive Education and is now due to COVID19 and is system available planned to begin in now planned to begin by 2021. December 2020 Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 Strengthening Public Financial Management IN00996520 ►Reform of the planning and budgetary process (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target The Annual Project of the Annual Project of the Performances of the Performances of the 2019 Annual Health and Education Health and Education performance reports Value Organic BL ministries have been ministries for 2018 and (PR) of the education submitted to the Finance 2019 finalized and on- and health ministries Ministry for inclusion in going for 2020. available the 2021 Finance Law Achieved. Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996523 ►Public investement selection and monitoring system (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target The deployment of the The deployment of the platform and support platform and support are Report on the are conditioned by the conditioned by the implementation of the adoption of the Value PIM Decree adoption of the strategy public investment strategy by the GoN by the GoN and the projects published and the signing of signing of decrees on the (covering 2014-19) decrees on the staffing staffing of a SNISE team. of a SNISE team. Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 IN00996525 ►Information on public procurement (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target The results of public The results of public procurement procurement performance audits performance audits from from 2014 to 2018 Performance audits 2014 to 2018 were were published on the (2014 and onwards) of Value PMIS not oper published on the ARMP ARMP website. The public procurement website. The publication publication of the 2019 published of the 2019 audit has audit has been been impacted by the impacted by the COVID-19 crisis COVID-19 crisis 6/29/2021 Page 5 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 Change Management IN00996521 ►Implementing ICT solutions for egovernance and government continuity during the COVID-19 crisis (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Video conference and networking equipment Obsolete regulatory acquired an deployed Regarding the egov / framework for in the identified Covid system, the information system agencies (ANSI, Min Value acquisition of equipment Achieved. management and low Secondary Education, and video conferencing interconnexion Min. Primary system are effective. capabilities. Education, Min. of Planning, Min. Finances). Date 31-Dec-2015 20-Nov-2020 31-Mar-2021 31-Dec-2021 Performance-Based Conditions IN00996528 ►PBC 1 The tax reform unit in the Tax Department (Direction Générale des Impôts) of the Ministry of Finance is made operational (Yes/No, Process, 280,000.00, 0.00%) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) September 2019 Value No Yes Yes No Date -- 20-Nov-2020 20-Nov-2020 -- IN00996529 ►PBC 2 The Ministry of Finance has adopted a three year Strategic Action Plan for the Tax Directorate (Direction Générale des Impôts) (Yes/No, Output, 550,000.00, 0.00%) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) September 2019 Value No Yes Yes No Date -- 20-Nov-2020 20-Nov-2020 -- IN00996530 ►PBC 3 System of VAT reimbursement Operational (Yes/No, Intermediate Outcome, 550,000.00, 0.00%) 6/29/2021 Page 6 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) September 2019 Value No No No Yes Date -- 20-Nov-2020 20-Nov-2020 -- IN00996531 ►PBC 4 The results of the User Survey of the Performance of the Tax Administration are published (Yes/No, Intermediate Outcome, 550,000.00, 0.00%) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) September 2019 Value No No No Yes Date -- 20-Nov-2020 20-Nov-2020 -- Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P145261 IDA-H9310 Effective USD 40.00 40.00 0.00 35.09 1.48 96% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P145261 IDA-H9310 Effective 31-Mar-2014 29-Apr-2014 29-Sep-2014 31-Dec-2018 31-Dec-2021 Cumulative Disbursements 6/29/2021 Page 7 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Niger - Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Delivery Project (P145261) PBC Disbursement Achievement Disbursed amount in Disbursement % PBC ID PBC Type Description Coc PBC Amount Status Coc for PBC Restructuring History Level 1 Approved on 24-Oct-2016 ,Level 2 Approved on 17-Jul-2020 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 6/29/2021 Page 8 of 8