The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) Combined Project Information Documents / Integrated Safeguards Datasheet (PID/ISDS) Appraisal Stage | Date Prepared/Updated: 14-Feb-2019 | Report No: PIDISDSA26465 Jan 24, 2019 Page 1 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) BASIC INFORMATION OPS_TABLE_BASIC_DATA A. Basic Project Data Country Project ID Project Name Parent Project ID (if any) Djibouti P166220 Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project Region Estimated Appraisal Date Estimated Board Date Practice Area (Lead) MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH 31-Dec-2018 28-Feb-2019 Social Protection & Labor AFRICA Financing Instrument Borrower(s) Implementing Agency Investment Project Financing Ministry of Economy and State Secretariat for Social Finance Affairs Proposed Development Objective(s) The Project Development Objectives are to: i) support an expanded and enhanced social safety nets system; and ii) support access to basic services in targeted poor communities. Components Conditional cash transfers Strengthening social protection delivery systems Community-based investments in basic services to improve human capital Project Management PROJECT FINANCING DATA (US$, Millions) SUMMARY -NewFin1 Total Project Cost 15.00 Total Financing 15.00 of which IBRD/IDA 15.00 Financing Gap 0.00 DETAILS -NewFinEnh1 World Bank Group Financing International Development Association (IDA) 15.00 Jan 24, 2019 Page 2 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) IDA Grant 15.00 Environmental Assessment Category B-Partial Assessment Decision The review did authorize the team to appraise and negotiate B. Introduction and Context Djibouti is a small lower-middle income country with a strategic geopolitical and trade position in the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden. The country overcame violent civil conflict in the early 1990s through a brokered peace and power-sharing agreement among major ethnic groups in the country, and has enjoyed a peace-dividend with steady economic growth in the form of foreign capital inflows from foreign countries’ military b ase rents and port services. From 2015 to 2017, real GDP growth averaged 6.5 percent, with inflation of 1.8 percent. Growth in 2018 was expected to reach 6.7 percent1. Yet, the growth that Djibouti experienced has not been broadly shared in recent decades. Djibouti remains a fragile state and faces serious obstacles to poverty reduction and improved service delivery to its population. Limited arable land and rainfall have had adverse effects on livelihoods and contributed to high level of food insecurity. Inequality in 2017 was high, with an estimated Gini index of 0.42. In the same year, an estimated 21 percent of the Djiboutian population lived in extreme poverty, spending less than DJF 111,783 per capita per year (equivalent to US$2.17 per day in 2011 at purchasing power parity). Rural areas lagged behind the capital city showing higher rates of extreme poverty (62.6 percent).2 Djibouti hosts over 25,700 refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Eritrea whose basic needs are shelter, water and safety. Most of the registered refugees and asylum seekers live in three camps - Ali Addeh, Holl Holl and Markazi - and in urban areas including Djibouti-City and Balbala. Both long-term and new refugees require shelter, essential non-food items, health, education, water and sanitation. Heightened demand for the delivery of basic services comes not only from refugees and asylum seekers, but also from the approximately 100 000 migrants who pass through the country each year, some of them seeking to immigrate to other countries. 1 IMF DataMapper, October 2018 2 DISED (2018) “Resultats de la Quatrieme Enquete Djiboutienne Aupres des Menages pour les Indicateurs Sociaux� Jan 24, 2019 Page 3 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) Sectoral and Institutional Context For equitable and sustained growth, substantial investments are needed in human capital development, especially for young children that represent the country’s future. Djibouti ranks 172 out of 188 in the Human Development Index (HDI), while data is not available to produce a ranking for Djibouti in the new Human Capital Index. The most urgent priority for human capital development is for the youngest children, given that a large body of scientific and economic research has shown that the early years of a child's life are critical for development of cognitive, physical, and socioemotional skills, and that high-quality investments in the early years can have returns that surpass investments in primary or secondary education. Investments are needed both the demand for and supply of basic services that promote development of human capital. Djibouti’s education sector is characterized by low enrolment, inequitable outcomes, and relatively poor quality. More than half of students fail to complete primary school, and overall 30% of the school- age population remains out of school. Access to early learning opportunities, including quality preschool, is virtually absent for low-income populations. In rural areas especially, access to clean water and improved sanitation is very low. Finally, climate and economic shocks continue to threaten poor and vulnerable households’ ability to meet basic needs or invest in human capital. Famine and prolonged food and nutrition deprivation negatively affect cognitive development of young children. The establishment of a solid social safety net (SSN) system (in addition to interventions in health, education, water, nutrition and other areas) has become crucially important in countries across the world to alleviate poverty and promote human capital development. International evidence shows that SSNs not only have an immediate impact on poverty, but also enable households to increase their use of basic services which contribute to increased human capital. This can happen through two key pathways: first, the income from cash transfers can help to cover the cost of schooling, heath care, water and sanitation, and other services; and second, the conditionalities associated with conditional cash transfers can encourage utilization of services as well as behavior changes that promote development of human capital. The Government is aiming to expand the delivery of services outside of the capital and spark regional development. To expand delivery of services, including to the poorest, the country requires additional physical infrastructure, including in education, health, water and sanitation. This is compounded by significant infrastructure challenges including lack of provision of electricity and transport, among other services. Decentralization is a key element of Government’s strategy to strengthen service delivery, and accordingly in 2016 it established a Ministry ‘délégué’ charged with implementing its decentralization policy. Increased community and local involvement in development of infrastructure is one way in which the Government seeks to expand access to basic services. C. Proposed Development Objective(s) Development Objective(s) (From PAD) The Project Development Objectives are to: i) support an expanded and enhanced social safety nets system; and ii) support access to basic services in targeted poor communities. Jan 24, 2019 Page 4 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) Key outcome indicators: • Number of direct Social Safety Nets Beneficiaries (Percent of female beneficiaries) • Proportion of women with a child under six months of age participating in community-based accompanying measures who exclusively breastfeed • Share of poorest quintile of households covered by the program • Number of households enrolled in National Social Registry • Number of beneficiaries with access to basic service infrastructures financed by the project that aim to improve human capital D. Project Description The Project will consist of four components: (1) provision of conditional cash transfers, including accompanying measures to improve human capital, (2) institutional capacity building support for social safety net system building and for establishing a community driven-development platform; (3) community-based investments in basic services to improve human capital and (4) project management E. Implementation Institutional and Implementation Arrangements The project will be implemented under the overall responsibility of SEAS. SEAS will have fiduciary responsibility for all components of the project. It will directly implement sub-component 1.1 (Financing of Cash Transfers), component 2 (Strengthening social protection delivery systems), and component 4 (project management). A third-party payment agency will be contracted to effect payment of cash transfers to targeted households. SEAS will contract ADDS to execute on its behalf sub-component 1.2 (Community-based accompanying measures to improve human capital) and component 3 (Community-based investments in basic services to improve human capital). ADDS, an autonomous administrative public institution overseen by SEAS, has the mission of contributing to the fight against poverty and vulnerability by supporting sustainable development projects in a participatory, partnership-based approach. . F. Project location and Salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) The locations of the interventions of the project will be in the regions of Ali Sabieh, Arta, Dikhil, Obock and Tadjourah. Jan 24, 2019 Page 5 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) G. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists on the Team Antoine V. Lema, Social Specialist Mohamed Adnene Bezzaouia, Environmental Specialist SAFEGUARD POLICIES THAT MIGHT APPLY Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) The sub-projects under component 3 community- based investments in basic services to improve human capital will support the construction and rehabilitation of physical infrastructures and other tangible assets in the areas of water supply and sanitation, water resource management, schools, markets, rural roads, environmental resource management, and other investments of similar scale and impact. The project has been categorized B, the potential environmental and social impacts associated with activities to be funded have the propensity to trigger small scale and site specific environmental Risks/impacts that are easily manageable. The main Risks/impacts identified are linked to solid and liquid waste management during works, Occupational Environmental Assessment OP/BP 4.01 Yes Health and safety of workers and community Health and safety during works and operation phases. An ESMF has been prepared by the borrower. The ESMF screens out all Category A-type sub-projects and give a list of eligible activities. For Construction and rehabilitation works, a simplified ESMP is provided. The ESMF has also provided a simplified guide for water treatment for the water supply infrastructures as cisterns and tanks to be constructed/rehabilitated. The ESMF contains provisions to ensure that labor aspects, including child labor and labor influx, are properly addressed in the documents prepared during project implementation including ESMPs, bidding documents, and civil works contracts. The ESMF has been consulted with interested parties on December 2nd and the final version disclosed in Country and in Jan 24, 2019 Page 6 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) the worldbank.org site on December 13, 2018, and re-disclosed on February 7, 2019. Performance Standards for Private Sector No Not applicable Activities OP/BP 4.03 The project activities would not result in any Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04 No conversion or degradation of critical natural habitats. The project will not finance activities related to Forests OP/BP 4.36 No forest exploitation, harvesting, direct or indirect forest degradation, and increased access to forest. The project will not finance acquisition transport, distribution, storage or use of pesticides or similar Pest Management OP 4.09 No chemicals that could threaten environmental and human health. The ESMF stipulates that if physical cultural Physical Cultural Resources OP/BP 4.11 No resources are found during civil works, a ‘'chance find procedure'' will apply. Djibouti has no population that would qualify as indigenous people, as defined by OP 4.10. Project Indigenous Peoples OP/BP 4.10 No activities will therefore not affect areas inhabited by indigenous people.. Under component 3, sub-projects will support the rehabilitation and construction of social and economic infrastructure such as water supply and sanitation, water resource management, schools, markets, rural roads, environmental resource management, and other investments of similar scale and impact. These activities could lead to restriction of access to assets or sources of livelihood and they could also entail some acquisition of land and/or Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP 4.12 Yes losses of assets and thus the OP 4.12 is triggered. The selection of beneficiary communities will only be known after the start of the project following selection on the basis of an index created by the national statistics institute. An RPF will be prepared prior to appraisal, it sets out the principles governing involuntary resettlement risks and provides the roadmap for preparing Resettlement Action Plans as necessary. The project will not finance dam works or activities Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 No associated to existing dams. The project will not finance activities that will Projects on International Waterways No interfere with international watercourses; either in OP/BP 7.50 terms of water withdraw or discharge of pollutants. Jan 24, 2019 Page 7 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) The project intervention areas are not under Projects in Disputed Areas OP/BP 7.60 No dispute. KEY SAFEGUARD POLICY ISSUES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT 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 may have small scale and site-specific environmental and social impacts under Component 3, and is consequently rated as a Category B project. It is estimated that the majority of the financing of subprojects under component 3 will be for the construction and rehabilitation of physical infrastructures and other tangible assets in the areas of water supply and sanitation, water resource management, schools, markets, rural roads, environmental resource management, and other investments of similar scale and impact. These interventions have the possibility to trigger small scale and site specific environmental Risks/impacts that are easily manageable.The main Risks/impacts identified are linked to solid and liquid waste management during works, Occupational Health and safety of workers and community Health and safety during works and operation phases. An ESMF has been prepared by the borrower. The ESMF screen out all Category A-type sub-projects and give a list of eligible activities. For Construction and rehabilitation works, a simplified ESMP is provided. The ESMF has also provided a simplified guide for water treatment for the water supply infrastructures as cisterns and tanks to be constructed/rehabilitated. The Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) states that if physical cultural resources are found during civil works, a ‘'chance find procedure'' will apply. These activities could also lead to restriction of access to assets or sources of livelihood and they could also entail some acquisition of land and/or losses of assets and thus OP 4.12 is triggered. The impacts are expected to be minimal, site-specific and manageable at an acceptable level. At this stage of project preparation, the locations of these interventions are in the regions of Ali Sabieh, Arta, Dikhil, Obock and Tadjourah.. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: No irreversible or long term impacts are expected as a result of this intervention. 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. No other project alternatives were considered given that the impacts were considered small and reversible. 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 project implementing agency, SEAS, does not have prior experience or capacity to prepare safeguards instruments or implement environmental or social safeguards mitigation measures. To address this gap, SEAS will be supported by ADDS in order to ensure safeguards compliance. The fiduciary responsibility, however, will remain with SEAS. Apart from the ADDS support, the bank team will provide hands on training to the SEAS safeguards focal point. During project preparation, in agreement between the two institutions, ADDS prepared the Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) and the Environment and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for this project; that collaboration will continue through project implementation. The implementation of the safeguards mitigation measures will build on the experience of the implementation of similar activities under the Djibouti Social Safety Nets Project. During project Jan 24, 2019 Page 8 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) implementation, the environmental screening and risk mitigation tools will be the subject of training for various stakeholders and be used by SEAS, ADDS, community associations, Regional Council officials, and other stakeholders. The documents were disclosed in Djibouti and the World Bank December 13, 2018 and re-disclosed on January 7, 2019. 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. Key stakeholders include direct and indirect project beneficiaries, communities benefitting from community infrastructure sub-projects, relevant government agencies and ministries, agencies involved in the execution of the project, and civil society. These stakeholders were consulted on December 2, 2018 prior to the disclosure of the ESMF and RPF. B. Disclosure Requirements OPS_EA_DISCLOSURE_TABLE Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other For category A projects, date of Date of receipt by the Bank Date of submission for disclosure distributing the Executive Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors 07-Feb-2019 07-Feb-2019 "In country" Disclosure Djibouti 07-Feb-2019 Comments OPS_RA_D ISCLOSURE_T ABLE Resettlement Action Plan/Framework/Policy Process Date of receipt by the Bank Date of submission for disclosure 07-Feb-2019 07-Feb-2019 "In country" Disclosure Djibouti 07-Feb-2019 Comments C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level (to be filled in when the ISDS is finalized by the project decision meeting) Jan 24, 2019 Page 9 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) OPS_EA_COMP_TABLE OP/BP/GP 4.01 - Environment Assessment Does the project require a stand-alone EA (including EMP) report? Yes If yes, then did the Regional Environment Unit or Practice Manager (PM) review and approve the EA report? Yes Are the cost and the accountabilities for the EMP incorporated in the credit/loan? Yes OPS_IR_ COMP_TA BLE OP/BP 4.12 - Involuntary Resettlement Has a resettlement plan/abbreviated plan/policy framework/process framework (as appropriate) been prepared? Yes If yes, then did the Regional unit responsible for safeguards or Practice Manager review the plan? Yes OPS_ PDI_ COMP_TA BLE The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the World Bank for disclosure? Yes Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups and local NGOs? Yes All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Yes Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included in the project cost? Yes Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Yes Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? Yes Jan 24, 2019 Page 10 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) CONTACT POINT World Bank John Van Dyck Sr Social Protection Specialist Amr S. Moubarak Social Protection Economist Borrower/Client/Recipient Ministry of Economy and Finance Implementing Agencies State Secretariat for Social Affairs Mouna Osman Aden Secretary of State for Social Affairs ministre@sociales.gouv.dj 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 John Van Dyck Task Team Leader(s): Amr S. Moubarak Approved By Safeguards Advisor: Brandon Enrique Carter 12-Feb-2019 Practice Manager/Manager: Hana Brixi 12-Feb-2019 Jan 24, 2019 Page 11 of 12 The World Bank Integrated Cash Transfer and Human Capital Project (P166220) Country Director: Atou Seck 15-Feb-2019 Jan 24, 2019 Page 12 of 12