The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Azerbaijan | Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2013 | Seq No: 15 | ARCHIVED on 09-Nov-2018 | ISR33896 | Implementing Agencies: Republic of Azerbaijan, State Service on Agricultural Projects and Credits Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 05-Jul-2012 Effectiveness Date: 04-Dec-2012 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 28-Sep-2015 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 30-Sep-2015 Original Closing Date: 30-Sep-2017 Revised Closing Date: 31-Mar-2019 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective is to improve access to and use of community-driven rural infrastructure and expand economic activities for rural households. This would be achieved through: (i) the provision of grants to finance eligible demand-driven micro-projects in rural infrastructure; (ii) the provision of training and consultants’ services to support micro-project development by enhancing the capacity of engaged local stakeholders in all aspects of micro-project program development; (iii) building opportunities for rural employment and livelihood support services through the provision of training and consultants’ services to carry out pilot livelihood support services in six communities; and, (iv) supporting project management capacity at the Project Management Unit and its Regional Operations Offices for the purposes of effective management, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of Project activities. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Rural Community Infrastructure:(Cost $18.90 M) Technical Assistance for Rural Infrastructure:(Cost $4.73 M) Project Management and Results Monitoring:(Cost $6.37 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 implementation continues to proceed smoothly and is on track to meet its PDO. 100 percent of the project funds (including both original AZRIP-2 and AF to AZRIP-2) have been disbursed from the loan account. A total of 1,535 Community Projects (CP) have been completed to 11/9/2018 Page 1 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) date benefiting nearly 3.5 million rural Azerbaijanis. A multi-functional GIS Map was created to geo-locate all 2,000 community projects completed under AzRIP 1 and 2, and to ensure greater transparency and accountability, and better targeting and planning with regard to the investments. In March, 2018, the project introduced an innovative approach to empowering rural women economically through creating their own networks, group savings and entrepreneurship. With specialized technical assistance from the "Kudumbashree" organization based in Kerala, India, AzRIP facilitated the mobilization of six Women Development and Enterprise Groups in five rayons, with a total of 88 women. Initially it was proposed to have fourteen Women Development and Enterprise Groups (WDEGs), however later a decision was made to proceed with six groups and to build from it, given that the innovation was being introduced for the first time in the country.. All six groups have started businesses that are owned and operated by them. Capacity building has been an ongoing effort with trainings on financial literacy, life skills, business development and management and health and nutrition. After six months of weekly collective savings, the groups are preparing to invest these resources in their businesses. They will be supported in making informed decisions and to grow their business by the business incubators set up in the pilot rayons. In addition 35 youth have been trained as Community Business Promoters to offer onsite business development services. They will staff the business incubators along with AzRIP rural business specialists. The total commitment of $80 million under AzRIP-2 and AzRIP-2 Additional Financing has been fully disbursed from the loan account. The closing date of the project was extended from September 30, 2018 to March 31, 2019 to enable satisfactory completion of the Women’s Development and Enterprise Group activities. The Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan will continue to support AzRIP using domestic resources after AzRIP-2 closes. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic -- Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies -- Low Low Technical Design of Project or Program -- Low Low Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Substantial Substantial Fiduciary -- Moderate Moderate Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Low Low Other -- -- -- Overall -- Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Improve access to and use of community-driven rural infrastructure for rural households IN00574357 ►Percentage increase in access to and use of rural infrastructure (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 57.20 33.00 25.00 11/9/2018 Page 2 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 At baseline, 43% of households used certain rural infrastructure items, while by the end line survey 57.2% did so. The change of 14.2 percentage points represents a 33% increase in access to and use of rural Comments: infrastructure. IN00574358 ►Percentage of households that are satisfied with the quality of basic rural infrastructure (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 43.20 63.40 63.49 75.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574359 ►Percentage reduction in travel time to market, hospital, school, safe water source (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 68.60 41.00 48.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 At baseline, the average travel time to the places identified was 21.43 minutes, while at end line it was 12.59 minutes. The average time reduction of 8.83 minutes represents a 41% reduction in travel time. The breakdown of reductions in travel time to each place is as follows: travel to pre-schools went from 13.31 to 4.17 minutes, i.e. a 68.7% reduction; travel to secondary school went from 15.7 to 6.96 minutes, i.e. a Comments: 55.7% reduction; travel to the district hospital went from 36.26 to 27.39 minutes, i.e. a 24.5% reduction; travel to the water supply point went from 8.19 to 3.44 minutes, i.e. a 57.9% reduction; and travel to market went from 33.67 to 21.02 minutes, i.e. a 37.5% reduction. IN00574417 ►Project beneficiaries (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 3,426,297.00 3,426,297.00 3,500,000.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 02-Apr-2018 02-Apr-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574422 Of which female (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 56.00 56.00 50.00 Expand economic activities for rural households IN00574360 ►Percentage change in household income from economic activities: rural infrastrcture activities, livelihood activities (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 7.67 7.67 23.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 The indicator is being corrected as per the AF Project Paper. Given a change in the methodology for Comments: Project M&E (i.e. the Project has not been able to conduct an Impact Evaluation), the project is only able to report on the original indicator, i.e. percentage change in income from household economic activity, 11/9/2018 Page 3 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) which is measured by the percentage point difference in the share of households that earn more than 500 AZN monthly, i.e. 7.67 percentage points. Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Rural Community Infrastructure IN00574411 ►Number of microprojects (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1,507.00 1,534.00 1,270.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574412 ►Number of women in Community Project Committees (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 3,794.00 3,796.00 3,175.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574416 ►Traffic volume on rural connector roads (average no. of vehicles per day) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 114.00 321.00 321.00 300.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574418 ►Number of beneficiaries from livelihoods microprojects (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 64,571.00 86,979.00 250,000.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574419 ►Percentage of livelihood microprojects that are ongoing and commercially viable (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 90.00 90.00 90.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 Technical Assistance for Rural Infrastructure IN00574413 ►Percentage of subprojects where necessary maintenance operations are taking place with community engagement (Percentage, Custom) 11/9/2018 Page 4 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 90.00 90.00 90.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574415 ►Trainees in capacity building activities by kind of activity (male/female/youth/minorities/IDPs/municipal/ExComm) community training; cross visits; seminars; conferences (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 23,077.00 23,103.00 37,300.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574420 ►No. Members in Common Interest Groups (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 312.00 369.00 225.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 Project Management and Results Monitoring IN00574414 ►Grievances registered related to delivery of project benefits addressed (%) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 100.00 100.00 90.00 Date 11-Feb-2013 27-Mar-2018 29-Aug-2018 30-Sep-2018 IN00574421 Grievances related to delivery of project benefits that are addressed-(number) (Number, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 30.00 33.00 12.00 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P122944 IBRD-81890 Closed USD 30.00 30.00 0.00 30.00 0.00 100% P122944 IBRD-84030 Effective USD 50.00 50.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 100% Key Dates (by loan) 11/9/2018 Page 5 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Second Rural Investment Project (P122944) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P122944 IBRD-81890 Closed 05-Jul-2012 19-Oct-2012 04-Dec-2012 30-Sep-2017 30-Sep-2017 P122944 IBRD-84030 Effective 09-Jul-2014 22-Oct-2014 05-Nov-2014 30-Sep-2018 31-Mar-2019 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 19-Sep-2018 Related Project(s) P147861-Second Rural Investment Project Additional Financing 11/9/2018 Page 6 of 6