The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) AFRICA | Guinea | Governance Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2012 | Seq No: 14 | ARCHIVED on 26-Sep-2019 | ISR38610 | Implementing Agencies: Project Coordination Unit (PCU) - UCEP, Project Coordination Unit (PCU) - UCEP, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MPDE) Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 20-Mar-2012 Effectiveness Date: 17-Oct-2012 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 10-Feb-2020 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2016 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2021 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) To re-establish and strengthen basic systems and practices to improve the management of public financial and human resources in Guinea. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The project development objective (PDO) is to modernize public financial and human resource management and enhance statistical capacity in Guinea. Components Table Name Strengthening basic public expenditure management:(Cost $12.50 M) Improving Human Resource Management:(Cost $4.00 M) Project Management:(Cost $1.50 M) Strengthening Statistics Capacity:(Cost $4.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions The USD 22 million Economic Governance and Technical Assistance Capacity Building (EGTCAB) Project aims at modernizing public financial and human resource management and enhancing statistical capacity in Guinea. The project was approved by the Board on June 9, 2017, became effective on December 12, 2017 and was officially launched on January 24, 2018. The project is still performing Moderately Unsatisfactory. The 9/26/2019 Page 1 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) action plan agreed with the PIU and the Min. of Plan folloing the Spring Meeting has only been partially implemented, and not translating yet on increased disbursement despite some progress.. Progresses per component are as follow: Component 1: strengthening basic expenditure management. In 2019, the following activities were completed: (i) the PNDES dissemination (ii) the 2018 Investment execution report; (iii) the Procurement code revision (validation process in sept-oct 2019); (iv) the HR and Payroll database diagnostic, (v) the Large-scale MTBF training (vi) the SIGMAP diagnostic. The last activities are (i) the diagnostic of the IFMIS postponed to sept-oct. 2019; which in turn will lead to the ToR for the TA recruitment on IFMIS (incl. SIGMAP, HR/payroll) and (ii) large-scale training on procurement dependent of Procurement Code validation. Component 2: improving human resource management. The activities related to MFPREMA are being conducted as planned: (i) biometric equipment has been deployed in 2019, (ii) biometric census has been completed with national resources end of 2017; (iii) recruitment of the HRM TA planned mid-2019 has been delayed to September 2019 because of challenges in procurement processes. However, the PM office activities implementation are delayed: while the TA on communication, and on legal framework is on-going, (iii) recruitment of the TA on government coordination has been delayed since end of 2018. Component 3: statistical capacity development. (i) The household surveys have been completed, the analysis are on-going (ii) the enterprise census is currently being designed. (iii) the scholarship recipients started training in the sub-region and the Young Professionals have been recruited and are currently working with INS. (iv) The Ministry of Planning is asking for the Bank’s support for a Statistics Master project which was previously supported by the European Union. Technical mission on Statistics will assess the relevance, quality and cost-effectiveness of the potential support during restructuring. Component 4: Project management. The project management team is in place and operational. The MTR will allow to make necessary adjustments if needed. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Substantial Substantial Macroeconomic -- Substantial Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies -- Substantial Substantial Technical Design of Project or Program -- Substantial Substantial Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Substantial Substantial Fiduciary -- Substantial Substantial Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Moderate Substantial Other -- -- -- Overall -- Substantial Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Basic expenditure management strenghthened IN00745785 ►Public contracts procured through open competition (Percentage, Custom) 9/26/2019 Page 2 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 15.00 83.00 86.00 80.00 Date 01-Feb-2012 31-Dec-2018 31-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 IN00745803 ►Proportion of the PIP compliant with PIM manual investment budget (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 28.00 40.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 Human Resource Management improved IN00745801 ►Discrepancy between MEPS civil service database and the payroll. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 8.00 0.60 3.60 2.00 Date 01-Feb-2012 08-Mar-2019 30-Apr-2019 30-Jun-2021 102,725 civil servants in payroll database, 159,209 civil servants in Human Resource database Comments: gap of 56,084. National Statistical Capacity developed IN00745802 ►Number of statistical products (household survey, enterprise census, national accounts) completed and published by INS following international standards (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 11-Mar-2019 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components 1. strenghtening basic expenditure management IN00745804 ►Upgrade of the Expenditure Chain in compliance with LORLF (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 Partially achieved. Budget classification have been updated, Manuel of expenditures chain has been Comments: validated at technical level, finalisation on-going. 9/26/2019 Page 3 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) IN00745807 ►Public investment proposals prepared according to agreed procedures (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 36.00 36.00 90.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018 31-Dec-2018 30-Jun-2021 To be updated once the fiscal year 2019 is achieved. Comments: IN00745809 ►Average rate of execution of public procurement commitment plans in the targeted three sectoral ministries (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 30.00 30.00 30.00 85.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 14-Mar-2019 14-Mar-2019 30-Jun-2021 to be updated after december 2019 for the year 2019. Comments: IN00745810 ►Number of sector implementing Aggregate Citizen Report Card scores (Percentage) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 05-Mar-2019 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 This indicator needs to be reformulated during restructuring to be in line with activities. Comments: 2. Improving Human Resource management IN00745805 ►Additional public agents registered in biometric census (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 17,985.00 17,985.00 30,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 target to be updated at restructuring, as the biometric census was performed in 2017 and covered 17,985 Comments: persons. 3. Statistical capacity development IN00745806 ►New poverty indices (poverty incidence, poverty gap, poverty severity) (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes 9/26/2019 Page 4 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) Date 30-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 household survey done, analysis on-going. Comments: IN00745808 ►Statisticians or equivalent trained from regional statistics or demography schools (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 9.00 9.00 5.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 08-Mar-2019 30-Aug-2019 30-Jun-2021 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P125890 IDA-D2000 Effective USD 22.00 22.00 0.00 5.14 17.03 23% P125890 IDA-H7650 Closed USD 10.00 9.87 0.13 9.37 0.00 100% P125890 IDA-V0860 Closed USD 1.59 0.00 1.59 0.00 0.00 0% P125890 TF-12640 Closed USD 0.65 0.14 0.51 0.14 0.00 100% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P125890 IDA-D2000 Effective 09-Jun-2017 26-Jul-2017 12-Dec-2017 30-Jun-2021 30-Jun-2021 P125890 IDA-H7650 Closed 20-Mar-2012 23-Apr-2012 17-Oct-2012 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2017 P125890 IDA-V0860 Closed 25-May-2017 30-Jun-2017 30-Jun-2017 12-Dec-2017 12-Dec-2017 P125890 TF-12640 Closed 23-Apr-2012 23-Apr-2012 17-Oct-2012 31-Dec-2013 31-Dec-2014 Cumulative Disbursements 9/26/2019 Page 5 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Economic Governance Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (P125890) Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 09-Aug-2016 Related Project(s) P157662-Economic Governance Technical Assistance & Capacity Building - Additional Financing 9/26/2019 Page 6 of 6