INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET APPRAISAL STAGE Report No.: ISDSA2244 Public Disclosure Copy Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 25-Mar-2013 Date ISDS Approved/Disclosed: 26-Mar-2013 I. BASIC INFORMATION 1. Basic Project Data Country: Africa Project ID: P125018 Project Name: West Africa Regional Disease Surveillance Capacity Development (P125018) Task Team Enias Baganizi Leader: Estimated 16-Apr-2013 Estimated 20-May-2013 Appraisal Date: Board Date: Managing Unit: AFTHW Lending Specific Investment Loan Instrument: Sector: Health (100%) Theme: Health system performance (100%) Financing (In USD Million) Total Project Cost: 10.75 Total Bank Financing: 0.00 Total Cofinancing: Financing Gap: 0.00 Financing Source Amount Public Disclosure Copy Borrower 0.75 Africa Catalytic Growth Fund (ACGF) 10.00 Total 10.75 Environmental C - Not Required Category: Is this a No Repeater project? 2. Project Objectives The project development objective is to strengthen regional disease surveillance and response system of ECOWAS member states. 3. Project Description The West African Regional Disease Surveillance Capacity Development Project (WARDS) will have three components: Regional Capacity Development (Component 1), Strengthening Human Resources (Component 2), and Project Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation (Component 3). Page 1 of 5 Detailed information on the types of activities and budget items will be funded under each component can be found in Annex 2: Detailed project description. Public Disclosure Copy Component 1 (Regional Capacity Development): capacity development for technical and political leadership in regional multi-disease surveillance and response. This involves enhancing the institutional capacity of development partners and supporting discrete activities and technical support functions of WAHO implementing partners to foster the harmonization of the building blocks for the development of a functional regional disease surveillance and response and help ECOWAS member states to meet the requirements of the international health regulations (IHR 2005). Two areas have been identified under this component: (i) promoting the use of WHO-sanctioned protocols and tools for integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) by all ECOWAS member states to build core capacities required by IHR-2005 and foster a regional disease surveillance and response, and (ii) improving regional information sharing. The illustrative activities to be carried out include : (i) Assessment of the core capacities to implement the international health regulations in the two remaining ECOWAS countries (Guinea Bissau and Senegal), (ii) Revision of national disease surveillance and response strategies and plans in line with the 2010 WHO’s Technical Guidance for IDSR in all ECOWAS countries, (iii) Organization of regional simulation exercises on outbreak preparedness and response and , (iv) Documentation and sharing of lessons learned from inter-country/cross-border collaboration initiatives, (v) Regular publication and dissemination of an epidemiological bulletin for ECOWAS, (vi) harmonization of tools for data sharing and the creation of a regional platform for electronic information sharing. The following items will be financed under this component: consultants’ contracts for technical assistance for the assessments, for capacity building, for training, travel costs, and computer equipment. Public Disclosure Copy Component 2 (Strengthening Human Resources) will support three key activities: (i) Long-term training in form of specialized training in disease surveillance and response building on the experience of the FETP/FELTP programs that were funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The project will expand ECOWAS member state access to two types of applied epidemiology training programs: the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) and the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP). The FELTP contains all the components of an FETP, but it also trains select laboratory scientists using a competency-based curriculum that supports laboratory-based surveillance and outbreak response. The programs allow MOHs to strengthen their disease surveillance, outbreak response, and program evaluation. They are modeled after the Epidemic Intelligence Service training of the CDC. (ii) Short-term and on the job training by scaling-up of the Projet d’ Appui en Surveillance Epidemiologique Integree (PASEi) approach to the development of CES; and (iii) Laboratory training by expanding the RESAOLAB initiative of training laboratory network personnel at district level and strengthening laboratory network. This component will finance procurement of vehicles, computers, consultant services, training supplies and materials, travel costs, and workshop costs. Page 2 of 5 Component 3 (Project Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation) will strengthen WAHO capacity in project management through the recruitment of a project manager, a financial specialist, a procurement specialist, and an M&E specialist. Technical and financial support will be provided to Public Disclosure Copy enhance the design of M&E strategies and implement project monitoring and evaluation activities. This component will finance contractual staff salaries, training activities, office equipment and supplies. 4. Project location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) Regional project: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria. No safeguards issues were identified during project preparation. 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists Svetlana Khvostova (AFTSG) 6. Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) Environmental Assessment OP/ No BP 4.01 Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04 No Forests OP/BP 4.36 No Pest Management OP 4.09 No Physical Cultural Resources OP/ No BP 4.11 Indigenous Peoples OP/BP 4.10 No Public Disclosure Copy Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP No 4.12 Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 No Projects on International No Waterways OP/BP 7.50 Projects in Disputed Areas OP/BP No 7.60 II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the Restructured project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: Project activities will not include any construction or procurement of equipment or medical supplies (drugs, vaccines, reagents). The project will have no adverse environmental or social impacts. No safeguards policies are triggered. Page 3 of 5 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: No potential indirect and/or long term impacts are anticipated. Public Disclosure Copy 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. N/A 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. N/A 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. The direct beneficiaries of the project are the health technicians working in the statistical and epidemiological data management services within the national health system and other health professionals associated with the planned capacity development, particularly the West African Health Organization and its technical partners. A subset of the populations of the 15 countries of ECOWAS living in disease epidemic prone areas would ultimately be the indirect beneficiaries of an improved regional disease surveillance system, as a result of the early warning and rapid response capacity which was enhanced as a result of the project. B. Disclosure Requirements If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Physical Cultural Resources policies, the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental Assessment/ Audit/or EMP. If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why: N/A C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] World Bank's Infoshop? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups and local NGOs? All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] in the project cost? Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? Page 4 of 5 III. APPROVALS Task Team Leader: Enias Baganizi Public Disclosure Copy Approved By Sector Manager: Name: Trina S. Haque (SM) Date: 26-Mar-2013 Public Disclosure Copy Page 5 of 5