The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Implementation Status & Results Nicaragua Nicaragua Social Protection (P121779) Public Disclosure Copy Operation Name: Nicaragua Social Protection (P121779) Project Stage: Implementation Seq.No: 7 Status: ARCHIVED Archive Date: 19-Jul-2014 Country: Nicaragua Approval FY: 2011 Product Line: IBRD/IDA Region: LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Implementing Agency(ies): Key Dates Board Approval Date 03-Feb-2011 Original Closing Date 30-Sep-2015 Planned Mid Term Review Date Last Archived ISR Date 30-Dec-2013 Effectiveness Date 25-Jul-2011 Revised Closing Date 30-Sep-2015 Actual Mid Term Review Date 07-Apr-2014 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objectives of the Project are to: (i) improve the basic conditions of welfare and social well-being of extremely beneficiary families with children in Selected Poor Localities; (ii) strengthen the capacity of MIFAN to implement the family and community-based social welfare Model; and (iii) promote pre-school and primary school attendance through the provision of school lunches. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project? Yes No Component(s) Component Name Component Cost Improving the basic conditions of welfare and social well-being of extremely poor families. 11.30 Strengthening of MIFAN's Capacity 3.70 Supporting the Integral School Feeding Program 4.50 Overall Ratings Public Disclosure Copy Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status Overview A Mid-Term Review (MTR) mission for this Project was held in April 7-13, 2014. The results of this MTR will be discussed in a two-part Implementation Status Report (ISR). This is the first part of the MTR ISR and reflects the basic information and key topics covered in the mission. The second part of this MTR ISR will include the progress, developments, and update on indicators and ratings, and will be submitted in August, 2014. Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 To date the Project has disbursed $6.6 million, about one third of the credit amount. The Project started enrolling families in the second semester of 2013 and has been making steady progress towards achieving the Project Development Objective (PDO). Because the Project is in the process of a restructuring, during which the results framework is being revised, a second ISR will be created reflecting the progress on the indicators when this process is completed. Public Disclosure Copy Key highlights by component include: Component 1: The Project has been supporting the improvement of MIFAN's capacity to develop and implement the Ministry of the Family´s (MIFAN) Family and Community-based Social Welfare Model (MAIFC) and the family grant component in the 26 selected municipalities. At the end of 2013, MIFAN had rolled out the MAIFC in 6 municipalities, trained key staff in the territories, and developed the operational modules of the Management Information System (MIS) and the Unique Registry of Beneficiaries. Target families are receiving an array of services from MIFAN that include: (i) promotion services to improve the use of social programs, (ii) community-based workshops aimed at promoting human capital formation within the family, contributing to positive changes in the family relationships, and improving parents´ knowledge and use of social services, (iii) family counseling home-based visits to develop and implement the family improvement plan towards achieving social welfare conditions within the family, and (iv) family grants conditional on parent´s regular attendance to the community-based workshops. As of April 2014, 11,199 families have been incorporated in the Program, representing close to 56 percent of the original goal. The remaining families are scheduled to enter the Program by the third quarter of 2014. Family counseling has also been rolled out in these municipalities, covering 413 families attended by 18 local MIFAN social workers. Four bi-monthly payment cycles have been completed. Families are complying with their co-responsibilities (as verified in the MIS) to receive the payments and 95 percent of the families are claiming the family grants in the corresponding period. The challenge now is to find a payment agency in the 21 remaining municipalities to enroll the rest of the families by the end of the third quarter of 2014. Component 2: This component financed the development of the MAIFC, its cultural adaptation and its validation. Training of MIFAN´s staff, staff from other institutions of the National Social Welfare System (SNBS) and other community actors is underway; close to 1,246 institutional staff and 435 volunteers throughout the country have been trained. The MIS and the Unique Registry of Protagonists (RUP) are functional and allow an automatized registry of the family interventions and the institutional strengthening supported by the Project, extending these functions even to the territorial delegations of MIFAN since the systems are web-based and allow automated monitoring of indicators. In addition, MIFAN is coordinating with the Ministry of Health the development of an interconnecting platform to share information of their beneficiaries. Finally, MIFAN is completing the design of the impact evaluation of the Project.. Component 3: This component has financed the second purchase of food for the school feeding program in selected municipalities which covered 15 days for about 236,000 children in pre and primary schools in 2013. For 2014, this component is financing training workshops for the education community on nutrition and food security and a study on the cultural ad aptation of the program for indigenous communities and ethnic territories. Both of these activities are underway and expected to finish by December 2014. Locations Country First Administrative Division Location Planned Actual Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de Yalaguina Nicaragua Departamento de Nueva Segovia Municipio de Wiwili Public Disclosure Copy Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de Totogalpa Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de Telpaneca Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de Somoto Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Municipio de Sebaco Nicaragua Departamento de Jinotega Municipio de San Sebastian de Yali Nicaragua Departamento de Jinotega Municipio de San Rafael del Norte Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Country First Administrative Division Location Planned Actual Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de San Lucas Public Disclosure Copy Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de San Juan del Rio Coco Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Municipio de Rio Blanco Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Municipio de Palacaguina Nicaragua Not Entered Republic of Nicaragua Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Municipio de Matiguas Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Municipio de Matagalpa Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Departamento de Matagalpa Nicaragua Departamento de Madriz Departamento de Madriz Nicaragua Departamento de Leon Departamento de Leon Nicaragua Departamento de Jinotega Municipio de Jinotega Nicaragua Departamento de Jinotega Departamento de Jinotega Nicaragua Departamento de Esteli Municipio de Esteli Nicaragua Departamento de Esteli Departamento de Esteli Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Municipio de El Viejo Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa El Tuma Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Municipio de El Realejo Nicaragua Departamento de Jinotega El Cua Public Disclosure Copy Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Municipio de Corinto Nicaragua Departamento de Matagalpa Municipio de Ciudad Dario Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Municipio de Chinandega Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Departamento de Chinandega Nicaragua Departamento de Chinandega Municipio de Chichigalpa Results Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Project Development Objective Indicators Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Percentage of families whose children had not Percentage Value 90.00 Public Disclosure Copy been attending school and who now have Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 children attending school in the selected Comments Baseline to be defined once Model was rolled out in localities intervention starts. Baseline August 2013,midway in the will be set with data collected school year. Indicator will be for first semester of 2013 measured at the end of school year. school year. Public primary school retention rate in selected Percentage Value 85.00 93.00 90.00 localities Date 29-Nov-2010 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Baseline to be defined once Measured for PINE intervention localities are component for previous selected. Baseline will be set school year. It includes once cohorts from all localities preschool coverage. have entered. Percentage of children in primary school who Percentage Value are promoted to the next school year in Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 selected localities Comments Baseline to be defined once Model was rolled out in intervention starts. Baseline August 213,midway in the will be set with data collected school year. Indicator will be for first semester of 2013 measured at the end of school year. school year. Percentage of families who are using local Percentage Value 90.00 services and programs in selected localities Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Baseline to be defined when Information still not available intervention starts and after pending incorporation of information received from additional data bases into Census is fully processed. MIS. Percentage of families that are enrolled in Percentage Value 0.00 70.00 100.00 Public Disclosure Copy MIFAN's programs registered in the Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Management Information System of the Comments Reflects progress to date on Ministry of theFamily. incorporation of data bases into MIS. Percentage of Municipalities where MIFAN is Percentage Value 0.00 6.00 100.00 implementing the new model Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Intermediate Results Indicators Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Indicator Name Core Unit of Measure Baseline Current End Target Percentage of localities that have completed Percentage Value 0.00 100.00 the biannual cycle of educational workshops Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Public Disclosure Copy Comments Program rolled out in August 2013, will be measured every two years Percentage of families complying with co- Percentage Value 0.00 90.00 95.00 responsibility on workshop attendance Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments This represents the results for the first and second cohort. Program rolled out in August 2013. Percentage of families having home visits (by Percentage Value 0.00 10.40 90.00 social promoters) in accordance with the Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 frequency established in the intervention Comments The Program has adjusted methodology. the family home visits strategy to attend only the Child at Risk beneficiaries. Percentage of families who have agreed on Percentage Value 0.00 70.00 their Family Improvement Plan, during the first Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 six months of intervention Comments Model has not been implemented for 6 months yet. Percentage of families who meet all the basic Percentage Value 0.00 0.00 70.00 conditions during first year of intervention Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Model has not been implemented for a year yet. Percentage of beneficiary families whose co- Percentage Value 0.00 6.68 95.00 responsibilities are verified and reported Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Information based on first 2 Public Disclosure Copy cohorts of families. Percentage of families who are claiming the Percentage Value 0.00 6.68 95.00 family grant in the corresponding period Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Information based on first 2 cohorts of families Percentage of targeted localities for which local Percentage Value 0.00 100.00 100.00 services have been mapped Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Project is not yet effective. Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Percentage of targeted localities for which local Percentage Value 0.00 0.00 50.00 services mapping has been updated Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Updating pending the Public Disclosure Copy incorporation of rest of family cohorts. Number of modules of the MIFAN's Number Value 0.00 5.00 6.00 Management Information System developed Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 and implemented. Comments Still missing is the on-line module to handle complaints and questions. Number of institutions that exchange Number Value 0.00 5.00 information for the Registry of Beneficiaries Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 Comments Agreements with other institutions still to be developed. Percentage of families that are enrolled in Percentage Value 0.00 0.00 95.00 MIFAN's programs that have records with Date 22-Jun-2011 25-Nov-2013 30-Sep-2015 complete information in the Management Comments Still in process. Instrument Information System of the Ministry of the Family has been approved by MIFAN authorities. Percentage of public primary attendance in Percentage Value 80.00 85.00 85.00 targeted areas Date 29-Nov-2010 25-Nov-2013 01-Jul-2013 Comments Baseline estimated during Initial delivery of food made to Process for second and final project appraisal. 26 municipalities. Based on food purchase has been visits to sample of schools launched. visited, attendance rates varied from 85-90%. Number of children who receive the rations in Number Value 243000.00 236516.00 243000.00 target municipalities Date 29-Nov-2010 25-Nov-2013 01-Jul-2013 Public Disclosure Copy Comments Baseline estimated during Two deliveries of food were This component is expected project appraisal. realized during 2012, totaling to disburse completely 2 coverage for 93 days. years after effectiveness. A Second purchase of food has last purchase of food was been completed and planned for the beginning of distributed by August 2013. 2013 to cover about 15 days. Preliminary administrative That purchase was completed data. and distributed by August 2013 Data on Financial Performance (as of 27-Jun-2014) Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Report No: ISR15459 Financial Agreement(s) Key Dates Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Original Closing Date Revised Closing Date P121779 IDA-48620 Effective 03-Feb-2011 08-Mar-2011 25-Jul-2011 30-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2015 Public Disclosure Copy P121779 TF-10216 Closed 22-Nov-2011 01-Dec-2011 06-Feb-2012 30-Sep-2012 30-Apr-2013 Disbursements (in Millions) Project Ln/Cr/Tf Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P121779 IDA-48620 Effective USD 19.50 19.50 0.00 6.78 12.94 35.00 P121779 TF-10216 Closed USD 2.75 2.55 0.20 2.55 0.00 100.00 Disbursement Graph Public Disclosure Copy Key Decisions Regarding Implementation None. Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Projects There are no related projects. Page 7 of 7