The World Bank
   Liberia Social Safety Nets Project (P155293)




                                                                              REPORT NO.: RES38086

                                     DOCUMENT OF THE WORLD BANK




                                          RESTRUCTURING PAPER
                                                  ON A
                                   PROPOSED PROJECT RESTRUCTURING

                                                      OF

                                  LIBERIA SOCIAL SAFETY NETS PROJECT
                                      APPROVED ON APRIL 28, 2016
                                                      TO

                                        GOVERNMENT OF LIBERIA


SOCIAL PROTECTION & JOBS

AFRICA




                           Regional Vice President:    Hafez M. H. Ghanem
                                 Country Director:     Pierre Frank Laporte
                                 Regional Director:    Amit Dar
                       Practice Manager/Manager:       Iffath Anwar Sharif
                                Task Team Leader:      Victoria Strokova
           The World Bank
           Liberia Social Safety Nets Project (P155293)



I. BASIC DATA

Product Information

Project ID                                                     Financing Instrument
P155293                                                        Investment Project Financing

Original EA Category                                           Current EA Category
Not Required (C)                                               Not Required (C)

Approval Date                                                  Current Closing Date
28-Apr-2016                                                    31-Dec-2021




Organizations

Borrower                                                       Responsible Agency
Government of Liberia                                          Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection



Project Development Objective (PDO)
Original PDO
The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to establish the key building blocks of a basic national safety net delivery
system and provide income support to households who are both extremely poor and food insecure in the Republic of
Liberia.
Summary Status of Financing


                                                                                        Net
Ln/Cr/Tf                  Approval         Signing Effectiveness         Closing Commitment Disbursed Undisbursed

IDA-57910              28-Apr-2016    19-Sep-2016    20-Sep-2017 31-Dec-2021             10.00        1.30           8.82
TF-A6428               08-Dec-2017 27-Mar-2018       18-Jun-2018     31-Jul-2019          1.20         .50            .70


Policy Waiver(s)

Does this restructuring trigger the need for any policy waiver(s)?
No
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           Liberia Social Safety Nets Project (P155293)



I. SUMMARY OF PROJECT STATUS AND PROPOSED CHANGES

 While the last supervision mission (April 2019) downgraded both Development Objective (DO) and Implementation
 Progress (IP) ratings to Moderately Unsatisfactory (MU), since then the implementing agency (the Ministry of Gender,
 Children, and Social Protection) has fulfilled some of the major action items as recorded in the mission aide memoire.
 Specifically, the Ministry signed a large procurement contract with the data collection firm for the Social Registry in
 four counties covering more than 200,000 households (approx. US$2 million). The Bank has also cleared the Technical
 Proposal Evaluation Report for the procurement of the integrated Management Information System. These contracts
 are financed by the USAID Trust Fund. Also, the recertification of former Social Cash Transfer beneficiaries
 (approximately 4,000 households) in two counties has been completed and the cash transfer is scheduled to begin in
 August 2019. With these developments, the task team confirmed that the Project is now back on track to meet its
 development objectives.

 The proposed restructuring aims solely to change the closing date of the USAID financed RETF (TF-A6428), which co-
 finances the Project, from July 31, 2019 to July 31, 2020. This will be the first extension for a cumulative number of 12
 months. In its letter dated July 19, 2019, requesting the extension, the Government stated that this restructuring will
 allow full utilization of the TF in order to reach all expected results. As of today, the RETF has disbursed US$0.5 million
 and US$0.7 million is still committed. The end-disbursement date extension for the Administrative Agreement
 (TF072727) of the RETF has been approved by the Country Director and all processes to extent the AA are expected to
 be completed by the end July 2019.

 There are no overdue audit reports from the Recipient. The current closing date of the Project is December 31, 2021.


II. DETAILED CHANGES


LOAN CLOSING DATE(S)


                                          Original                 Revised                Proposed       Proposed Deadline
Ln/Cr/Tf         Status                   Closing                Closing(s)                 Closing         for Withdrawal
                                                                                                               Applications
IDA-57910        Effective           31-Dec-2021                                       31-Dec-2021              30-Apr-2022
TF-A6428         Effective            31-Jul-2019                                       31-Jul-2020             30-Nov-2020