The World Bank Report No: ISR10114 Implementation Status & Results Philippines Improving Livelihood Opportunities for Vulnerable Urban Communities (P122565) Public Disclosure Copy Operation Name: Improving Livelihood Opportunities for Vulnerable Urban Project Stage: Implementation Seq.No: 2 Status: ARCHIVED Archive Date: 29-Apr-2013 Communities (P122565) Country: Philippines Approval FY: 2011 Product Line: Recipient Executed Activities Region: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Implementing Agency(ies): Key Dates Board Approval Date 25-May-2011 Original Closing Date 31-Dec-2013 Planned Mid Term Review Date 28-Aug-2012 Last Archived ISR Date 29-Apr-2013 Effectiveness Date 14-Jan-2011 Revised Closing Date 31-Dec-2013 Actual Mid Term Review Date 28-Oct-2012 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) To improve employment and livelihood opportunities for approximately 3,750 households in targeted poor urban communities affected by the financial crisis. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project? Yes No Component(s) Component Name Component Cost Community Grants 2.17 Community capacity building and enterprise development 0.58 Monitoring and evaluation 0.27 Overall Ratings Previous Rating Current Rating Public Disclosure Copy Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Implementation Status Overview While progress has been made in implementing the recommendations from the previous discussions on project implementation, delays continued to be experienced. Activities aimed to be completed by January 2013 (such as the training of field teams and start of preparatory activities at field level and the finalization of the project’ s Operations Manual) will now begin by the 3rd week of March. Similarly, activities in pilot sites expected to be mostly finalized in December 2012 are now planned to be completed in early April 2013. In order to address on-going implementation challenges, the project team will be reinforced by a set experienced DSWD staff in the following areas: (i) expertise on Livelihoods; (ii) Engineering Technical Assistance; (iii) Procurement and Financial Management and; (iv) support to overall coordination of activities with field teams. Going forward it will be key for staff to Page 1 of 4 The World Bank Report No: ISR10114 continue providing hands on support to the implementation of project activities as well as supervision of newer staff members for the project to achieve its PDO in the revised time- frame proposed (30th of December 2014). Public Disclosure Copy Locations No Location data has been entered Results Project Development Objective Indicators Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Increased income Number Value 0.00 0.00 3750.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Dec-2014 Comments Business Development Services Number Value 0.00 6.00 50.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Dec-2014 Comments Community Response Plans Percentage Value 0.00 8.00 100.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Dec-2014 Comments Intermediate Results Indicators Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Impact Evaluation Yes/No Value No No Yes Date 01-Feb-2011 31-Mar-2013 30-Dec-2014 Comments Data collection completed. Baseline data expected 30th April 2013. Process Evaluation Yes/No Value No Yes Yes Public Disclosure Copy Date 01-Feb-2012 31-Mar-2013 30-May-2013 Comments Phase III completed Phase IV on-going. Regular reporting Yes/No Value Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Feb-2011 31-Mar-2013 30-Dec-2014 Comments Community Based M&E Yes/No Value No Yes Yes Sub Type Supplemental Page 2 of 4 The World Bank Report No: ISR10114 Training for Community Based M&E Number Value 0.00 0.00 40.00 Sub Type Supplemental Public Disclosure Copy Cash for Work Number Value 0.00 6.00 75.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Jun-2014 Comments Community Entreprise Plans Number Value 0.00 6.00 75.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Jun-2014 Comments Community mobilization Number Value 0.00 6.00 75.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Jun-2014 Comments Entreprise training Number Value 0.00 120.00 200.00 Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Jun-2014 Comments Audits Yes/No Value No Yes Yes Date 01-Feb-2011 26-Oct-2012 30-Jun-2014 Comments N/A 2011 and 2012 audit reports submitted Data on Financial Performance (as of 26-Mar-2013) Financial Agreement(s) Key Dates Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Original Closing Date Revised Closing Date P122565 TF-97254 Effective 13-Dec-2010 14-Jan-2011 14-Jan-2011 31-Dec-2013 31-Dec-2013 Disbursements (in Millions) Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed Public Disclosure Copy P122565 TF-97254 Effective USD 3.00 3.00 0.00 0.64 2.36 21.00 Disbursement Graph Page 3 of 4 The World Bank Report No: ISR10114 Public Disclosure Copy Key Decisions Regarding Implementation Based on the joint discussions carried out during the mission, the main agreements on next steps are as follows: (i) The mission agreed that the DSWD team would complete the contracting of the NGO partner for the scale-up sites (on-going); (ii)Training activities for field teams (DSWD staff already on board and NGO staff) will take place for all scale-up areas (completed); (iii)An update on sub-project completion in pilot areas (activities by the end of March 2013) will be shared with the World Bank team by the 15th of April; (iv)The draft report of the LVUC Impact Evaluation (baseline) will be shared the draft with the WB team and flag any issues where additional technical support may be needed. Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Projects There are no related projects. Public Disclosure Copy Page 4 of 4