The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) AFRICA | Congo, Democratic Republic of | Poverty and Equity Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2016 | Seq No: 7 | ARCHIVED on 12-Feb-2020 | ISR39806 | Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Finances, Institut National de la Statistique (INS) Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 28-Aug-2015 Effectiveness Date: 20-Jun-2016 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 06-Aug-2018 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 24-Sep-2018 Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2020 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2020 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity of the National Statistical System to produce and disseminate core economic and social statistics. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Component 1: Data Production, Dissemination and Use:(Cost $35.10 M) Component 2: Human Resources Development and Management:(Cost $9.90 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions 2/12/2020 Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) The project implementation status report is based on the conclusions of supervision and technical missions conducted respectively in September and November 2019. Given the challenges faced by the PIU in conducting the enterprises census, the ratings of progress towards achieving the Project Development Objective (PDO) and the implementation Progress (IP) are unchanged and will be upgraded as soon as the project implementation status improved. Component 1: Data Production, Dissemination and Use of data to strengthen the statistical infrastructure for poverty and economic monitoring Population Census Cartography: Budget for the population census has been reallocated during April 2019 restructuring to finance the Enterprise Census, the Agriculture Census and the development of a sampling frame for household surveys. However, technical assistance to the population census remains to support the population census office to finalize technical works. Enterprise Census: On February 4, 2019, the Minister of Planning formally launched the activities of the enterprise’s census. From May and July 2019, almost 4000 enumerators were trained for the data collection activities in more than 60 training centers throughout the country. On June 21 and August 15, 2019, data collection activities started in Kinshasa and in the rest of the country. Most of the provinces completed data collection and based on the listing of inconsistencies, enumerators had corrected the data. The data collection that should be completed 45 days after the launching is still in progress due to delay in paying enumerators. Household survey: The Kinshasa poverty survey completed in December 2018. The INS team with support of the Bank is currently preparing the household survey at the national level. Given inconsistencies found in the listing exercise to have the household sample, the project will hire a sampling specialist and a household survey specialist to support the preparation and implementation of the national household survey. This technical assistance will propose the suitable methodology to build a sampling frame for the DRC given Kinshasa poverty experience. Agriculture census and surveys: For more than three decades, the DRC has not organized an agricultural census (RGA). The modular approach recommended by FAO will be used to implement the census. The structural module of the RGA had been designed to be conducted during the population census cartography. Due to issues faced by the population census, the RGA has not started due to lack of a master frame. IT and Equipment for Data Production and Diffusion: The recruitment of a webmaster to improve the INS website to create a platform for sharing statistical data produced by the INS with spreadsheet option is in progress. Component 2: Human Resources Development and Management Support for the development of the National Statistics Schools: With the support of ENSEA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée) of Abidjan, the project had launched in March 2019 a national competition to select candidates for 18 months training in statistics. One hundred and seventy-five candidates have been finally selected and divided across the three schools. Training started on July 29, 2019 in Kinshasa and a week after in Lubumbashi and Goma. Training was jointly delivered by selected national teachers and ENSEA. The program offered is comparable with African statistics schools and ENSEA will provide training for trainers to selected national teachers to ensure the overall quality of teachings. Training of new statisticians for the INS and short term training related to statistics: in 2016, with the support of the project, and in collaboration with a statistical center CAPESA (Centre d'Appui aux Écoles de Statistique Africaines), the INS prepared Congolese students to take the exams. The Project is currently financing 30 scholarships in African Regional Statistical Schools namely Institut Sous‐régional de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (ISSEA), Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographique (IFORD) and Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l’analyse économique (ENSAE). By the request of the Government, the project has agreed to finance seven (7) new scholarships for the first year of training of Congolese students who passed the 2019 statistics exams. The Government committed to support the scholarships for the next years of their training in regional schools. Rejuvenation of the INS staff: The project started supporting the rejuvenation process of the INS staff through the development of an “end of career framework”. Other HR activities: Management training has been launched and 20 human resource staff from INS's different departments have been trained. 2/12/2020 Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) . Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance High Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic Moderate Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and High Substantial High Sustainability Fiduciary High High High Environment and Social Low Low Moderate Stakeholders Substantial Substantial Substantial Other -- -- -- Overall Substantial Substantial Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes To strengthen the capacity of the NSS to produce and disseminate core economic and social statistics IN00780367 ►Number of statistical products completed and published by the INS following international standards (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2.00 2.00 4.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780368 ►Number of statistical outputs with data readily available to users through INS data portal (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 3.00 0.00 6.00 2/12/2020 Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1: Data Production, Dissemination and Use IN00780383 ►Number of routine statistical publications on the INS website (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1.00 0.00 15.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780384 ►LSMS-ISA surveys completed for: (i) Kinshasa, and (ii) DRC (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780385 ►A Master sample Frame is developed (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780386 ►Price Indexes are calculated with 2012 as the base year (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780387 ►A sampling frame of agricultural households is developped (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780388 ►Quality of the 2015 E-QUIBB database certified (Yes/No, Custom) 2/12/2020 Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780389 ►National Accounts prepared in accordance with SNA2008 (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780390 ►Availability of an up-to-date database on household living conditions at national level (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780391 ►A master sample for enterprise statistics is developed (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780392 ►The new building of the INS is equipped (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780393 ►INS has an action plan to implement the national data dissemination policy (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780394 ►Regular Production of Central Government Revenue Statistics compliant with 2014 GFS Manual (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 2/12/2020 Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) Value 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.00 Date 28-Aug-2015 07-Jun-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 Component 2: Human Resources Development and Management IN00780369 ►Curricula of subjects taught in the schools of statistics updated in accordance with the standards of the African Schools of Statistics (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 27-Aug-2015 31-Jan-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780370 ►Number of scholarships funded by the project (including women) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 33.00 41.00 45.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 31-Jan-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780381 ►Total number of Young Contract Workers recruited and financed by the project (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 30.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 31-Jan-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 IN00780382 ►Number of statistics technicians trained in national statistics schools (including women) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 180.00 Date 27-Aug-2015 31-Jan-2019 23-Jan-2020 31-Dec-2020 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P150148 IDA-D0880 Effective USD 45.00 45.00 0.00 21.04 23.27 47% 2/12/2020 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report DRC-Statistics Development Project (P150148) Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P150148 IDA-D0880 Effective 28-Aug-2015 27-Oct-2015 20-Jun-2016 31-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2020 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 04-Apr-2019 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 2/12/2020 Page 7 of 7