The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) AFRICA | Guinea | Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2016 | Seq No: 7 | ARCHIVED on 07-May-2019 | ISR36917 | Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Decentralization and Territorial Administration Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 31-May-2016 Effectiveness Date: 27-Sep-2016 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 17-Sep-2018 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 17-Sep-2018 Original Closing Date: 30-Oct-2020 Revised Closing Date: 30-Oct-2020 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objective of the Project is to strengthen the local government financing system and improve local service delivery in rural communes and to provide an immediate and effective response in the event of Eligible Emergency or Crisis Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Component 2: Institution and capacity building for sustainable local governance and community participation:(Cost $8.64 M) Component 4: Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM). Component 1: Local Investment Fund:(Cost $3.49 M) Component 3: Project coordination and management:(Cost $2.87 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions The mission focused on the remaining activities to be financed by the PACV3, while agreed on some action items to enable smooth launching of the Support to Local Governance Support Project (approved by the World Bank's Board in March 2019) which will continue to support the government's decentralization reform, including successful operationalization of the FNDL and the ANAFIC. In supporting a successful and smooth operationalization of the FNDL, the mission also emphasized the importance of building sufficient capacity at the local level, including citizen engagement mechanism that have been implemented by the PACV3/ANAFIC. 5/7/2019 Page 1 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) The PACV3/ANAFIC has set up a grievance redress mechanism both at the national and the local levels, which can be accessed by any beneficiary or wider citizens to ask questions and provide feedbacks to the project team. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Substantial Substantial Substantial Macroeconomic Substantial Substantial Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Low Low Low Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability Moderate Moderate Moderate Fiduciary Substantial Substantial Substantial Environment and Social Low Moderate Moderate Stakeholders Moderate Moderate Moderate Other Low Low Low Overall Moderate Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Strengthen the local government financing system and improve local service delivery in rural commune IN00698324 ►Funds from FNDL are executed by CRs (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 While the FNDL has been created and received some budget already from the government, the communes have not yet started to receive funds. The first transfer of the funds to the communes is Comments: expected to take place in 2019. IN00698325 ►Number of CRs using PACV’s participatory budgeting, monitoring and evaluation system (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 21.00 35.00 132.00 179.00 5/7/2019 Page 2 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 At the moment, 132 rural communes have been trained on participatory budgeting and monitoring. By the end of December 2019, all 337 communes who are expected to receive funds from the FNDL, will be Comments: trained on these mechanisms. IN00698331 ►Beneficiaries that feel project investments reflected their needs (percentage) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 26.00 57.00 57.00 85.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 Based on a survey conducted by an independent consultant in 12 communes from July to August 2018, Comments: the percentage was shown as 57%. A new survey will be conducted in 2019 to update the figure. IN00698332 ►Number of direct beneficiaries (disaggregated by gender) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 2,326,000.00 3,034,684.00 3,296,763.00 3,326,000.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 From the beginning of 2017, 970,763 people (of which 456,322 women) have benefitted from the project's Comments: investment and the training activities. Overall, 3296763 people (of which 1488850 (45%) are women. Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 2: Institution and capacity building for sustainable local governance and community participation IN00698333 ►A National Fund for Local Development (FNDL) is established and operational (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No Yes Yes Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 The relevant decrees have been issued and the FNDL as well as the ANAFIC have bene created. The ANAFIC is operational with the team, and the first transfer of the mining tax revenue has been already Comments: transferred to the account of the FNDL/ANAFIC. IN00698337 ►A National Government Agency is providing technical assistance to CRs (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No Yes Yes Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 The ANAFIC has been created and the Director General of the agency has been nominated in June Comments: 2018. The first Board meeting took place on February 22 to March 1, 2019. As of end March, 212 additional Local Development Agents are recruited to support the local development processes once the 5/7/2019 Page 3 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) FNDL starts transferring the funds, and the first training of the elected officials and their staff is being implemented, from February to November 2019. IN00698339 ►Percentage of elected mayors and key staff trained (retrained) in local governance and the use of fiduciary tools (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 53.00 85.00 100.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 About 979 persons at the commune level have been trained in April and in August 2018. In the first quarter of 2019, the training for the 337 new mayors was conducted. As of end of March 2019, training of Comments: the additional revenues will be conducted in 2019. IN00698341 ►Percentage of targeted CRs where Local Development Plans have been updated in a participatory manner. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 81.00 100.00 100.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 170 out of 170 targeted CRs (100%) for the Component 1 have realized their Local Development Plans in a participatory manner, taking into account the activities included in their PAI 2017-2018. Of the overall Comments: FNDL context, 304 local governments (out of 337) have already finalized their LDPs. IN00698343 ►The number of selected CRs where the technical staff of the Sub-prefecture have been detached to the Mayor (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 21.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 There is a study recently realized by another project PREMA on local public functions. Relevant policy has been validated by the ministries. The first pilot of 7 communes will be realized in 2019, in collaboration Comments: with PREMA. IN00698345 ►The Government transfers annually to Local Communities 15% of mining revenues as foreseen in Article 165 of the Mining Code (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 The FNDL is yet operational and the initial transfer of the fund to FNDL has been realized. It is expected Comments: that the local governments will start receiving funds before June 2019. IN00698347 ►Percentage of CR having increased collection of their annual revenues by at least 10% compared to the previous year (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 46.00 47.78 47.78 65.00 5/7/2019 Page 4 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 An analysis of the survey results shows that 47,78% of the 304 CRs have increased the local revenue at least 10 % compared to 2016. For 2018, the local level accounts are not yet available after the local Comments: election. Another study is planned at the end of June 2019. IN00698349 ►Percentage of deconcentrated technical staff that were trained to support Local Development (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 55.00 44.00 25.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 The calculation method of the indicator has had some confusion (it is based on the total number of people trained, instead of the total number of existing STD staff, of which the number of STD staff trained) and Comments: therefore, while the target is achieved, the value has decreased from the previous mission. At the moment, 5234 persons have been trained of which 2326 STD persons, meaning 44%. IN00698351 ►A computerized system for M&E at all levels is operational (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 Since August 2018, the database has been installed and operational in 33 out of 33 prefectural offices Comments: (100%). Efforts to improve the quality of the database are ongoing. IN00698352 ►Percentage of women and youth in different committees in selected CRs (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 26.00 35.00 35.00 50.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 According to a survey conducted in 12 communes by an independent consultant, 35% of these members are women. This situation has been improved in 2018, with new structures that have been installed. The Comments: new gender action plan and communication plans are expected to improve the figure in 2019. IN00698353 ►Percentage of recorded conflict risk issues that have been resolved by action groups through the pilot Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) implemented in the targeted CRs (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 80.00 Date 28-Sep-2018 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 It is a new indicator, added at the restructuring in October 2019. The pilot EWRS is being installed, and Comments: there is no record on the risks collected as of today. Component 4: Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM). IN00698334 5/7/2019 Page 5 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) ►This component is only for emergency. (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value NA NA NA NA Date 28-Sep-2018 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Sep-2020 Component 1: Local Investment Fund IN00698335 ►Percentage of CRs where the past investments in infrastructure were incomplete and have benefitted from complementary micro-projects. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 78.00 100.00 100.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 50 CR out of 50, which means 100%, have benefitted from the financing of their Annual Investment Comments: Program (PAI). IN00698338 ►Micro-projects or investments for which arrangements for community engagement in post-project sustainability and/or operations and maintenance are established (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 40.00 40.00 75.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 No change since the previous mission (the new analysis is not due yet). The CRs' administrative accounts of 2017 show that 121 out of 304 CRs (40%) had allocated and executed at least 5,000,000GNF of expenses related to maintenance of the public buildings and infrastructures. This implies that the Comments: arrangements for commune and community engagement in post-project sustainability and maintenance has been established. With the installation of the new local governments, another analysis will be conducted around end of June 2019. IN00698340 ►Percentage of PACV3-funded infrastructures audited that are certified to be in compliance with the appropriate technical and environmental norms (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 70.00 100.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 The technical audit which was realized in October 2018 has shown that out of 30 infrastructures visited, 21 (70%) were confirmed to be compliant with the safeguards and technical standards. More detailed Comments: results of the audit are also available with the PIU. IN00698342 ►Number of micro-projects financed by sub-component : (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 120.00 207.00 195.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 5/7/2019 Page 6 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) Based on the project database, 207 out of 195 end target (106%) of the microprojects have been realized. Sub component 1.1. (Strengthening existing structures) 78 microprojects out of target 100 (78%). Sub component 1.2. (Ebola) 66 microprojects out of target 40 (165%). Comments: Sub component 1.1. (Inter-communities) 35 microprojects out of target 30 (116%). Sub component 1.1. (Mines) 28 microprojects out of target 25 (112%). IN00698344 • Sub-component 1.1 Complementary investments in PACV2 micro-projects (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 67.00 78.00 100.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 IN00698346 • Sub-component 1.2 Micro-projects in CRs most affected by the Ebola Epidemic (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 29.00 66.00 40.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 IN00698348 • Sub-component 1.3 Inter-community micro-projects in natural resources management and bio-diversity protection (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 16.00 35.00 30.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 IN00698350 • Sub-component 1.4 Micro-projects in CRs located in mining areas (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 8.00 28.00 25.00 Date 21-Sep-2016 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Oct-2020 Component 3: Project coordination and management IN00698336 ►There was no indicator set for this component. (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value NA NA NA NA Date 28-Sep-2018 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 30-Sep-2020 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) 5/7/2019 Page 7 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Third Village Community Support Project (P156422) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P156422 IDA-58250 Effective USD 15.00 15.00 0.00 13.45 1.50 90% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P156422 IDA-58250 Effective 31-May-2016 27-Jun-2016 27-Sep-2016 30-Oct-2020 30-Oct-2020 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 11-Dec-2018 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 5/7/2019 Page 8 of 8