The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) AFRICA | Benin | Social Protection & Jobs Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2019 | Seq No: 2 | ARCHIVED on 20-Aug-2019 | ISR38177 | Implementing Agencies: Republic of Benin, Ministry of Decentralization and Local Government, Ministry of Social Affairs and Microfinance Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 06-Jul-2018 Effectiveness Date: 02-Jan-2019 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 01-Oct-2020 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: -- Original Closing Date: 30-Jun-2022 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2022 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective of the project is to improve access to decentralized basic social services and social safety nets, and to strengthen the social protection system. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Improving Decentralized Service Delivery:(Cost $23.80 M) Social Safety Nets and SP Systems:(Cost $12.80 M) Project Management:(Cost $3.40 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions Project performance is currently rated "Satisfactory" for likelihood of meeting development objectives and for implementation progress. The project is 41% disbursed. The Government’s National Commission for Local Finance (Commission Nationale des Finances Locales – CONAFIL) has signed sub-grant agreements with all 77 communes detailing each commune’s role and responsibilities in executing activities under Component 1 (commune and community sub-projects) and Component 2 (safety net sub-projects). Component 1: Improving Decentralized Service Delivery Community sub-projects: The project has completed the geographical targeting for community infrastructure and safety nets sub-projects based on an index measuring access to basic social infrastructure and contribution to extreme poverty, prepared by the national statistics institute (Institut 8/20/2019 Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique - INSAE). Commune councils have approved the final lists of targeted communities based on the INSAE ranking. Identification and approval of community sub-projects will begin after community training scheduled for September-October 2019. Commune sub-projects: The project transferred multi-village infrastructure investment grants to communes during the April-June 2019 period, through the Communal Development Support Fund (Fonds d’Appui au Développement des Communes -FADeC), the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system which takes into account communes’ size, population, poverty level, and performance in resources allocation. Several communes are preparing to submit their sub-project document to the approval of the department-level finance controllers. Supported expenditures should be linked to specific investments in the Commune Development Plan to enable traceability and are limited to the areas of education, health, water, rural roads, and market infrastructure to ensure compliance with the Bank environmental and social safeguards requirements. Component 2: Social Safety Nets and Social Protection Systems Safety nets: Geographical targeting of beneficiary communes and communities is completed. Beneficiaries will be selected from among the poorest households in the national social registry that is currently under development by the Government’s social protection flagship Project Coordination Unit (UCP ARCH), with the assistance of the INSAE. In the meantime, the Project secretariat held training and awareness-raising sessions with local-level Ministry of Family and Social Affairs staff, commune officials and village councils. Development of the National Social Registry: The project-financed national three-stage survey to enroll all poor and extreme poor households in the national social registry is underway and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The community identification phase is completed. The PMT survey, conducted by the INSAE, is completed for the 7 pilot health insurance communes of the ARCH-program and will be extended to all the 77 communes. The community validation phase, to verify the PMT scores generated following the survey, has yet to begin. In terms of capacity building to support this activity, the Bank organized a study tour of a Beninese delegation - composed of the Project team members and agents from all the ministries and agencies involved in the development of the national registry - to Djibouti from June 21-26 to learn about the Djiboutian experience with the social registry. Component 3: Project Management Procurement for equipment, payment agencies, the MIS system and PMT enumerators is underway. The 2019 procurement plan was 60% executed at the end of June. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Substantial Substantial Substantial 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 Sustainability Moderate Moderate Moderate Fiduciary Substantial Substantial Substantial Environment and Social Moderate Moderate Moderate Stakeholders Moderate Moderate Moderate Other -- -- -- Overall Moderate Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes 8/20/2019 Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Improve access to decentralized basic social services IN00732468 ►Students enrolled in schools constructed/rehabilitated under the project (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 21,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732546 ►Number of communes carrying out community driven investments with non-project financing (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 Improve access to social safety nets IN00732469 ►Beneficiaries of social safety net programs (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 12,983.00 0.00 0.00 18,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732547 Beneficiaries of social safety net programs - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 9,000.00 IN00732548 Beneficiaries of Safety Nets programs - Unconditional cash transfers (number) (Number, Corporate Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 12,983.00 0.00 0.00 18,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732549 Beneficiaries of Safety Nets programs - Cash-for-work, food-for-work and public works (number) (Number, Corporate Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 16,200.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732550 ►Beneficiaries of job-focused interventions (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 9,000.00 8/20/2019 Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732551 Beneficiaries of job-focused interventions - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 6,300.00 Strengthen the social protection system IN00732470 ►Households enrolled in National Social Registry (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 170,000.00 0.00 0.00 500,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1: Improving Decentralized Service Delivery IN00732552 ►Socio-economic infrastructure subprojects executed by communities through delegation of responsibility from communes (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 360.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732554 ►Communes having executed at least one subproject (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 77.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732556 ►Number of additional classrooms built or rehabilitated at the primary level resulting from project interventions (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 400.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732558 ►Health facilities constructed, renovated, and/or equipped (number) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.00 8/20/2019 Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732560 ►Local government officials trained on procurement (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732562 ►Communes showing improvement by the end of the project on the annual procurement audit (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732563 ►Communes with up to date financial audits with published action plans to correct any revealed deficiencies (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 90.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732564 ►Communities that have received Grassroots Management Training (GMT) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 360.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732565 ►Women in leadership positions in community associations (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 40.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732566 ►Beneficiaries of citizen engagement activities (Grassroots Management Training) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 70,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732567 ►Percent of domestic revenues transferred by Government to communes through the FADeC (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 8/20/2019 Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Value 4.60 0.00 0.00 4.60 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 Component 2: Social Safety Nets and Social Protection Systems IN00732553 ►Cash transfer payments made within 5 days of when they are due, according to the annual payment calendar (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 90.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732555 ►Proportion of total safety nets transfers received by households ranked as poor or extreme poor by PMT (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 90.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732557 ►Public works schemes completed with satisfactory technical quality (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 90.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732559 ►Proportion of total cost of public works sub-projects allocated to wages (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 70.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 IN00732561 ►Roads rehablitated (Kilometers, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,500.00 Date 01-Mar-2018 21-Dec-2018 21-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2022 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) 8/20/2019 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community and Local Government Basic Social Services Project (P163560) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P163560 IDA-D3430 Effective USD 40.00 40.00 0.00 15.73 22.53 41% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P163560 IDA-D3430 Effective 06-Jul-2018 04-Sep-2018 02-Jan-2019 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 8/20/2019 Page 7 of 7