Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Local Government Support Project (P120517) AFRICA | Burkina Faso | Governance Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2012 | Seq No: 12 | ARCHIVED on 27-Oct-2017 | ISR29643 | Implementing Agencies: BURKINA FASO, Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Government of Burkina Faso MATD Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:01-Nov-2011 Effectiveness Date:06-Jun-2012 Planned Mid Term Review Date:10-Nov-2014 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:15-Oct-2014 Original Closing Date:31-Dec-2016 Revised Closing Date:31-Dec-2021 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The proposed project seeks to harness emerging government commitment to local government reforms by supporting the implementation of critical aspects of fiscal and administrative decentralization in six of the 13 regions of Burkina Faso. The primary objective of the project is to strengthen the central government#s capacity for administrative and fiscal decentralization and the institutional capacities of communes in six regions, and to improve accountability linkages between local policy makers and citizens in the six regions. 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)PHRPDODEL The development objective of the project is to strengthen the national capacity for decentralization, the institutional capacities of communes in all Regions and to increase citizen participation in local governance. Components Name Component 1 - Establishing the foundations of robust administrative and fiscal intergovernmental institutions:(Cost $16.80 M) Component 2 - Strengthening capacity of municipalities to manage local development:(Cost $87.48 M) Component 3 - Improving citizen participation in local governance:(Cost $13.94 M) Component 4: Project management and evaluation:(Cost $15.50 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Satisfactory  Satisfactory 10/27/2017 Page 1 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating  Moderate  Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STATUS Implementation of the original project has consistently been rated as satisfactory, for both progress towards achievement of PDO and implementation progress. Smooth project implementation has translated into high disbursement rate of the project funds, which after five years of effective implementation stands at 97 percent as of the end of June, 2017. Lessons learned from the first phase of the Project need to be taken into account in the implementation of Additional Financing. In particular, there is a strong need to improve coordination and communication with key stakeholders, including government actors and civil society both at the national and local government levels. In addition, promoting a robust high level monitoring of the implementation of decentralization policies and ensuring proper monitoring, evaluation, are among the key successful factors of the decentralization agenda in Burkina Faso. 1 . Component -1. Establishing the foundations of robust administrative and fiscal intergovernmental institutions. The government has developed a long-term vision for decentralization (La Vision Prospective de La Decentralization) in March 2017. The vision is intended to address the most critical challenges confronting decentralization in Burkina Faso, including inadequate attention to the financial dimension of decentralization, weak fiscal capacity of local governments, and low citizen participation in local decision making. This long-term vision is expected to further define concrete government commitments to fiscal decentralization. The Ministry of Finance has adopted a fiscal decentralization roadmap, bringing government closer to establishing a predictable intergovernmental transfer system. The Government plans to implement the fiscal architecture in phases by transferring resources to local government base on population in the first year and including other criteria in the formula in the second and subsequent years. 2 . Component-2: Strengthening capacity of municipalities to manage local development. There has been an improvement in the institutional capacity of communes. Provision of resources directly to communes through the institutional development grants has improved the capacity of 140 communes, particularly in areas such as construction of facilities, acquisition of transportation vehicles, office furniture, hardware, technical support, and scholarships to attend courses. Some direct results include: (i) reduction in time taken for citizens to obtain birth certificates from municipal governments from one week to two-three hours; (ii) sustained increase in the execution rate of annual commune procurement plan, reaching 85 percent in 2013 and 90 percent in 2016; (iii) decrease in the deviation of commune approved and executed budget from 33 percent in 2012 and 20 percent in 2016; and (iv) increase in the municipal workforce through the addition of 446 new staff, resulting in improvement of the administrative and financial management function. Provision of equipment, including computers and vehicles, contributed to the improvement in the operational efficiency of communes. All 256 new buildings and 154 renovated structures funded by the project are being utilized, and 44 percent of participating communes are equipped with solar energy, while 12 percent have acquired generators, resulting in reduced operating inefficiencies of the communes. 3 . Component 3 - Improving accountability linkages between local level policy makers and citizens. Formal citizen engagement mechanisms have been introduced in local government processes in Burkina Faso. These mechanisms are helping to strengthen the accountability linkages between citizens and their local governments. Implementation of the annual Competition for Excellence in Local Governance (La Compétition Pour l’Excellence dans la Gouvernance Locale - COPEGOL), supported by the project in the period 2011-2014, contributed to improved capacity of communes to effectively engage with citizens and allowed knowledge sharing on innovative governance approaches across communes. COPEGOL has also laid the foundation for a systematic assessment of municipal performance, which has been introduced under the Additional Financing of the project. Furthermore, policy experiments through impact evaluations to test and build knowledge on innovative approaches to improving accountability linkages between citizens and local authorities have been introduced under the original project. These include the invitation of randomly selected citizens to attend municipal council meetings, and the dissemination of performance information to municipal administrations on local service delivery and their administrative capacity. 10/27/2017 Page 2 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  Moderate  Moderate Macroeconomic  --  Moderate  Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies  --  Moderate  Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program  --  Moderate  Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability  --  Substantial  Substantial Fiduciary  --  Moderate  Moderate Environment and Social  --  Moderate  Moderate Stakeholders  --  Moderate  Moderate Other  --  Substantial  Substantial Overall  --  Moderate  Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL  Percentage of central government budget transferred to communes (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 5.00 -- 5.00 15.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDPDOTBL  Actual availability of funds to communes committed by the central government earlier in the budget cycle (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target No later than Value January 19, 2017 -- -- February 1, 2016 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 10/27/2017 Page 3 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) PHINDPDOTBL  Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 8,754.00 -- 8,754.00 12,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDPDOTBL  Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2,538.00 2,538.00 3,960.00 PHINDPDOTBL  Increase in the execution rate of annual commune procurement plan (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 90.00 90.00 95.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 30-Dec-2016 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDPDOTBL  Deviation of commune level budget implementation from initially approved annual communal budget (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 40.00 -- 40.00 15.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDPDOTBL  Increase in Communes own total local taxes (collected by DGI, DGTCP and communes for communes) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 32.00 10/27/2017 Page 4 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Date 02-Jan-2018 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDPDOTBL  Increase in percentage of citizens rating commune government's performance satisfactory (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 47.00 -- 47.00 70.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators PHINDIRITBL  Intergovernmental fiscal framework policy statement issued by the government (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No -- -- Yes Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Communes that established local budget committees (Percentage of increase from baseline) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 40.00 -- 40.00 100.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 10/27/2017 Page 5 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) PHINDIRITBL  Proportion of municipal who assesses the collection of commune's own taxes by regional MINEFID agencies as effective (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 20.00 -- 20.00 70.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Communes that filled at least 70% of the key positions in the minimum organigramme (key posts) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Baseline will be 40% increase Value -- -- established in 2018 from baseline Date 02-Jan-2018 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Communes with council-validated Institutional Development Plans (IDP) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Communes that meet at least 80% of the IDG requirements (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 10/27/2017 Page 6 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) PHINDIRITBL  Notification of indicative allocation of transfer amounts by central government to each commune government by November of preceding fiscal year (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N -- -- Y Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Increase in the number of people attending periodic/bi-annual public cadre de concertation and local council meeting (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 31-Mar-2017 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Number of citizens participated into the council meetings (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 50% increase Value tbd -- tbd over baseline Date 30-Mar-2018 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 PHINDIRITBL  Number of Municipal Town Hall meetings that meet at least 50% the meetings requirements (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 50% increase Value Baseline to be established -- tbd over baseline Date 30-Mar-2018 -- 31-Aug-2017 01-Oct-2021 Overall Comments 10/27/2017 Page 7 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed Not P120517 IDA-D2240 USD 60.00 60.00 0.00 0.00 61.15 0% Effective P120517 IDA-H7360 Effective USD 60.00 60.00 0.00 54.35 0.24 91% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date Not P120517 IDA-D2240 04-Aug-2017 -- -- 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2021 Effective P120517 IDA-H7360 Effective 01-Nov-2011 08-Dec-2011 06-Jun-2012 31-Dec-2016 01-Oct-2021 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 27-Jul-2016 10/27/2017 Page 8 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Support Project (P120517) Related Project(s) P120844-Mainstreaming Governance and Institutional Development in Burkina Faso ,P162742-Burkina Faso Local Government Support Project AF 10/27/2017 Page 9 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy