The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) AFRICA | Congo, Republic of | Poverty and Equity Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2014 | Seq No: 8 | ARCHIVED on 17-Jun-2019 | ISR37470 | Implementing Agencies: National institute of Statistics, Ministry of Economy and Finance Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 09-Jun-2014 Effectiveness Date: 08-Apr-2015 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 26-Feb-2018 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 24-Sep-2018 Original Closing Date: 15-Jun-2019 Revised Closing Date: 30-Apr-2021 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objectives of the project are to (i) strengthen the National Statistical System in the production and, dissemination of timely and robust statistics relevant for policies and decision making, and (ii) promote the demand for statistical information. 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 objectives of the project are to: (i) strengthen the NSS in the production and dissemination of quality statistics relevant for policies and decision making; and, (ii) promote the demand for statistical information. Components Table Name Component 1: Improving the Institutional and Organizational Framework of the NSS:(Cost $8.90 M) Component 2: Improving the Production, Dissemination, and Use of Statistics:(Cost $19.50 M) Component 3: Project Management:(Cost $5.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions The project has been declared effective on May 09, 2019 after the government fulfilled the necessary requirements. For example, a projects operation manual and a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) have been developed by the government and validated by the World Bank. Component 1: Improving the Institutional and Organizational Framework of the NSS 6/17/2019 Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) The Government has obtained a site for constructing the INS-CASP complex. A design and supervision architectural firm is being recruited. The PIU has also selected social and environmental safeguard specialists and infrastructure engineer to support the works but haven’t been recruited yet. The project is helping improve the National Statistical System functions. After a series of evaluations on the NSS’s institutional, organizational and functional capacity, fourteen procedural manuals on data production and dissemination standards have been developed and validated for the different National Statistical System members including education, health and gender ministries. Two consultants are under recruitment process to support the reform and trainings of the modernization of the CASP. The project has also continued supporting 24 students to study statistics in regional statistical schools. Thirteen are in Yaoundes Insitut Sous-regionale de Statistique et d’economi Appliquee (ISSEA); six in Yaoundes Institut de Formation et De Recherche Demographique (IFORD); two in Abidjan’s Ecole Nationale Superieure de statistique et d’economie appliquee (ENSEA); two in Dakar’s Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique (ENSAE); and one student at the Ecole Polytechnique Houphouet Boigny. Component 2　: Improving the Production, Dissemination and Use of Statistics PSTAT has continued supporting: the collection of Consumer Price Index in the cities of Brazzaville, pointe-Noire, Dolisie, Ouesso and Owando to extend the Harmonized　Index　of Consumer Prices (HICP) to a national level; a permanent system of collecting and publishing external trade statistics; and the start of workshop preparation to finalize nomenclature of activities and products of Congo. Dissemination activities are ongoing but with a slower pace. Even though communication activities remain a challenge for the Enterprise Census activities, they have progressed. A communications consulting firm has been hired and is working with INS staff on the field. The website development is ongoing with plans to finalize and launch it by July 2019. 5th Population and Housing Census: Preparatory activities for the 5th Population and Housing Census are ongoing. The project supported the evaluation of the pilot Census along with three UNFPA recruited international consultants. The evaluation focused on: the benefits and constraints of Census digitization; and the quality assurance of the overall process of the project. There is strong support by the consultants and the Project to quality assurance of the Census. Enterprise Census: The project supported the training of enumerators throughout the country and data collection has already started. Activities are ongoing even though issues compromising quality have been observed. These included weak monitoring and evaluation, inconsistencies in data collection, weak implementation of communication strategy and weak project financial management. A supervision team has been assigned to identify these challenges so as to make the process better. Agricultural Survey: PSTAT organized a meeting with all agricultural statistics producers in the RoC. These included the Ministry of Agriculture, livestock and fishery (Ministere de l’agriculture, de l’elevage et de la peche); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and the World Bank’s Agricultural Development Project (PDAC) project. The meeting aimed to: consolidate and streamline agricultural survey methodologies; define the organization and financing of agricultural surveys in the future and furthermore, it highlighted the works done by PSTAT , PDAC and FAO who are all supporting the Ministry of Agriculture in its statistical production. In this meeting it has been agreed that FAO’s Permanent Integrated System of Agricultural Statistics (SPISA) Project, a continuation of activities under RGA, will be supported by the World Bank’s PSTAT and the Agricultural Development Project (Projet d'Appui au Développement de l'Agriculture Commerciale (PDAC)). A Memorandum of Understanding has been drafted for this support and the World Banks team from PSTAT and PDAC will be discussing on the technical role PSTAT will undertake for this activity. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Moderate High Macroeconomic -- High High Sector Strategies and Policies -- Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program -- Substantial Substantial Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Moderate Substantial Fiduciary -- Moderate High Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Substantial Substantial Other -- Moderate Moderate 6/17/2019 Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) Overall -- Substantial Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Strengthen the NSS in the production and, dissemination of quality statistics IN00712341 ►Statistical Capacity Score (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 47.80 48.89 55.56 60.00 Date 31-Dec-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712343 ►Number of NSS staff with formal degree in statistics, informatics or demography (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 40.00 -- 44.00 60.00 Date 22-Jan-2018 -- 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712344 ►Share of statistical products completed and published by the INS following international standards. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 25.00 25.00 25.00 70.00 Date 01-Oct-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 Promote the demand for statistical information. IN00712342 ►Share of statistical output available to users through the open data portal (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 60.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712345 ►User Satisfaction Index (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 50.00 75.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712346 6/17/2019 Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) ►Annual growth rate of the number of hits on INS website (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 8.00 Date 22-Jan-2018 -- 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Improving the institutional and organizational framework of the NSS IN00712347 ►Institutional capacity assessment is completed for INS staff and 14 identified DEPs (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 31-Dec-2018 IN00712349 ►Share of sectorial statistical agencies that produce statistical information endorsed as official statistics by the INS (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 30.00 30.00 50.00 80.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712351 ►African chart of statistics and code of conduct are disseminated widely to the public. (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712353 ►Execution rate of the activities under the responsibility of the Project in the strategic HR plan (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712354 ►The INS-CASP complex is built and operational (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No -- No Yes Date 22-Jan-2018 -- 06-Jun-2019 31-Dec-2019 IN00712355 6/17/2019 Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) ►The new INS-CASP complex is furnished, has a data center, computers and operational internet links (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 31-Mar-2020 IN00712356 ►Number of trained students that pass the exam to get into regional statistics schools, with at least 10% women (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 24.00 15.00 Date 22-Jan-2018 -- 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 Improving the production, dissemination, and use of statistics IN00712348 ►A functional web-based data portal enabling access to the NSS data is developed and deployed (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 31-Dec-2018 IN00712350 ►Number of outreach thematic activities to key stakeholders such as media, politicians, policy makers and academia (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 2.00 2.00 4.00 10.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712352 ►Number of knowledge products on economic development issues produced with NSS data and disseminated to large audiences (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 2.00 2.00 4.00 10.00 Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 Project management IN00712357 ►The PIU makes biannual progress reports available to the Project Steering Committee (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712358 6/17/2019 Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) ►The Project Steering Committee meets semi-annually to assess project performance, intermediate results and outcomes (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712359 ►Annual budgeted work plan of the PIU is reviewed by the steering committee and submitted to the World Bank for no objection (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712360 ►The results based monitoring framework of the projet is defined, updated and validated by the Project Steering Committee (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 IN00712361 ►Operational M&E workshops with INS and all beneficiaries of the project are organized 3 times a year to assess the progress of planned activities (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Sep-2014 22-Jan-2018 22-Jan-2018 30-Jun-2021 IN00712362 ►Number of annual reports on the implementation of the ESMF and the RPF produced and discussed in the Project Steering Committee (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 6.00 Date 22-Jan-2018 -- 06-Jun-2019 30-Apr-2021 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P133731 IBRD-88510 Effective USD 25.00 25.00 0.00 0.06 24.94 0.2% P133731 IDA-55000 Effective USD 4.80 4.80 0.00 4.24 0.13 97% 6/17/2019 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CG-Statistics Capacity Building Project (P133731) Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P133731 IBRD-88510 Effective 05-Apr-2018 21-Jun-2018 09-May-2019 30-Apr-2021 30-Apr-2021 P133731 IDA-55000 Effective 09-Jun-2014 07-Jul-2014 08-Apr-2015 15-Jun-2019 15-Jun-2019 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 03-Feb-2017 Related Project(s) P162345-Additional Financing - RoC - Statistics Capacity Building Project 6/17/2019 Page 7 of 7