THE ABCs OF IDA— KEY ACHIEVEMENTS BY COUNTRY Fragility, Conflict & Violence ABCs of IDA | 1 This publication is a product of the Development Finance Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433 ida.worldbank.org Facebook.com/IDA.wbg Twitter.com/WBG_Fin4Dev YouTube.com/WorldBank October 2017 Photography: Cover, Ghullam Abbas Farzami/World Bank—Ustad Mir Ahmad, 47, has been happily teaching in this school for 30 years in Afghanistan. p. 4, Graham Crouch/World Bank—A road in rural Afghanistan helps facilitate year-round access to basic services and facilities. p. 5, Stephan Gladieu/World Bank—Construction workers in Central African Republic. p. 6, Sarah Farhat/World Bank—A woman walks through rice fields in Bubanza province, Burundi. p. 7, Dominic Chavez/World Bank—Cooks prepare meals for over 700 students in Liberia. p. 8, Arne Hoel/World Bank—Children sleep under a bed net to protect against malaria in Juba, South Sudan. p. 9, Lakshman Nadaraja/World Bank—Construction workers in Sri Lanka p. 10, World Bank—Land in Kosovo. 2 | ABCs of IDA ABCs OF IDA: FRAGILITY, CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE By the Numbers Key IDA achievements While millions are stepping out of IDA18 doubles resources to countries workers and helped more than poverty in developing countries, affected by fragility and conflict; $2 25,000 people develop vocational millions more live in countries where billion will be available to countries skills. A project in the Democratic fragility, conflict and violence have hosting large numbers of refugees. Republic of Congo is helping raise trapped them in a cycle of poverty. Assessments of the root causes awareness of and prevent sexual Fragility, conflict and violence of conflict and fragility are helping and gender-based violence. And in threaten to reverse development gains, often leading to forced displacement of populations, inform projects in 35 IDA countries. Exiting fragility is possible, but Liberia, 20,000 farming households received high-quality rice seed to avert hunger and revive the 52 MILLION Days of work created for workers affecting them as well as their host it requires the creation of well- agricultural sector in the wake in Afghanistan countries. functioning institutions. IDA’s of the Ebola crisis. In the Great 2003-2015 flexible, predictable, and country- Lakes and Horn of Africa regions, But the International based model is particularly IDA is providing support to host Development Association (IDA), effective. IDA is a critical piece of communities to help improve lives the World Bank’s fund for the the larger development equation and access to services for refugees poorest, is making a difference. providing knowledge and enhanced and internally displaced people. IDA supports countries affected by conflict and fragility by providing financing and the financing, serving as a platform for donor coordination (including the implementation of multi- The examples on the following pages illustrate how IDA-financed 700,000+ Work days were created by a knowledge needed to rebuild donor trust funds), and promoting operations in fragile and conflict- project to provide temporary resilient institutions and transparency and accountability of affected states are making a employment and develop public economies, reducing the risks both donors and states. difference. Be sure to see our other infrastructure in the Central of fragility and conflict, and by “ABCs” (achievements by country) African Republic. putting in place the building Despite overwhelming challenges, of IDA, including highlights of our 2015-2017 blocks people need to resume IDA’s support is helping countries work in Africa, and on gender, peaceful and productive lives. in the transition from crisis climate, jobs and economic and fragility to development. In transformation, and governance Since 2000, IDA has provided more Afghanistan, IDA’s support has and institution building at ida. than $38.3 billion in support for helped create 52 million days worldbank.org/abcs. fragile and conflict-affected states. of work for skilled and unskilled ABCs of IDA | 3 AFGHANISTAN From 2011 to 2015, a hospital in Jalalabad increased the number of From 2003 to 2015, the National patients from less than 50 to more Solidarity Program and 31 than 150 per day. partners, including IDA, worked through community development 732 kilometers of tertiary roads councils to identify and implement and 825 meters of tertiary 86,000 small-scale reconstruction bridges were completed across and development activities, Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015. including projects to improve Over the same time period, more water supply and sanitation, rural than 3,000 kilometers of tertiary roads, irrigation, power, health, roads were maintained. and education. The program has generated over 52 million days BURUNDI of work for skilled and unskilled workers and has helped establish The number of days needed to 33,400 community development obtain a construction permit at a councils across Afghanistan that new one-stop shop dropped from are democratically elected through 137 to 99 between 2012 and 2013. secret ballot. A project to increase agricultural 25,696 people benefited from a productivity helped small farmers project to develop job skills and increase their yields to 4 tons increase incomes for graduates of of rice per hectare in 2015, up technical and vocational schools from 2½ tons per hectare in 2010. from 2013 to 2015. Banana yields increased to 22.7 AFGHANISTAN tons per hectare from 9 tons over 732 kilometers of tertiary roads and 825 meters of tertiary From 2011 to 2015, 434 small- and medium-sized enterprises received the same time period. bridges were completed across Afghanistan from 2012 to grants to develop their businesses, 2015. Over the same time period, more than 3,000 kilometers which has helped create 1,385 jobs. of tertiary roads were maintained. 4 | ABCs of IDA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC from 2000 to 2012, including more DEMOCRATIC than 10,000 pregnant women, REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Central African Republic 2,000 teachers, and nearly 7,000 Emergency Public Services military personnel and their From 2014 to 2015, 3,845 Response Project aims to improve families. survivors of sexual violence the capacity of the government received holistic services, 3,244 to reestablish an operational 1,023 teachers and 22 heads received gynecological services, government payroll and related of school were recruited and and 58,627 community members financial management systems trained; 3,000 new curricula were participated in sensitization and after the civil war. Results include printed; and 178,500 textbooks, advocacy activities to improve an increase in revenue collections 5,596 school kits, and 5,130 table awareness and knowledge of of 50 percent from 2014 to 2015. benches were distributed between sexual and gender-based violence. The increased funding allowed 2007 and 2012. the government to rebuild service 1.2 million people in urban areas delivery functions after the crisis. were provided with access to CHAD improved drinking water from 2014 733,915 work days were created 2.6 million books were distributed to 2015. from 2015 to 2017 by a project to to schools, 400 classrooms were provide temporary employment 69,017 people benefited directly built and equipped, 20,000 people and develop public infrastructure. from the reconstruction of were taught to read and write, and community infrastructure such as 11,700 community teachers were 147,105 people benefited from food schools, water points and bridges trained from 2003 to 2012. crop production as part of the in eastern Congo from February to Emergency Food Crisis Response 123,500 people benefited from December 2014. CENTRAL AFRICAN and Agriculture Relaunch Project increased crop production from from 2014 to 2015. The project 500 villages benefited from REPUBLIC 2012 to 2015. also distributed 5,005 metric the construction of rural Government revenue tons of food and increased seed infrastructure, including 1,765 collection increased by COMOROS production by 371 metric tons. kilometers of roads, from 2011 to 50% from 2014 to 2015, More than 71,000 people have 2015. 327,843 people received access benefited directly from cash- allowing the government to a basic package of health, for-work and community-based to rebuild public service nutrition or reproductive health infrastructure projects with IDA delivery functions after the services from 2012 to 2015. emergency financing in response civil war. to the global crises and the local 119,000 people were tested for HIV floods of 2012. ABCs of IDA | 5 CÔTE D’IVOIRE As of 2015, an additional 61,800 people in urban areas were protected against periodic flooding thanks to rehabilitation and construction of urban infrastructure. 634 kilometers of rural roads were rehabilitated between 2012 and 2015. 18,000 former soldiers, armed individuals, and at-risk youth participated in economic reintegration activities from 2008 to 2012. 74 sub-prefecture offices were constructed, and 65 kilometers of rural roads were rehabilitated using labor-intensive methods from 2008 to 2012. 44 percent of HIV-infected BURUNDI pregnant women were receiving A project to increase agricultural productivity helped small farmers increase their yields to 4 antiretroviral treatment in 2012 to tons of rice per hectare in 2015, up from 2½ tons per hectare in 2010. Banana yields increased reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission, up from 0 in 2007. to 22.7 tons per hectare from 9 tons over the same time period. 6 | ABCs of IDA HAITI in Honduras. The project is and the Global Partnership for supporting nine initiatives that Education. Testing and treatment was address psychosocial support, provided for 9,776 people violence prevention, and 762,882 people were provided hospitalized for cholera in 98 community-based interventions. with access to a basic package of communes from October 2014 to health, nutrition or reproductive September 2015. 19,320 household health services from 2012 to 2014. KOSOVO visits were conducted as part of awareness-raising campaigns and 149,376 children were immunized From 2008 to 2015, the number of 19,800 houses and 3,515 latrines between 2012 and 2015 and days needed to complete a record were decontaminated over the 74,593 births were attended by of purchase or sale of property same time period. skilled health personnel between dropped from 30 days to about 2012 and 2014. 10 days with the help of a project From 2012 to 2015, 18,000 people to improve tenure security and benefited from solar-powered MALI develop the real estate market in street lights in the Port-au-Prince post-conflict Kosovo. metropolitan area. As of end of September 2015, 43,613 households, representing 372,516 tuition waivers were LIBERIA 349,031 people, were benefiting financed for underserved students from cash transfers and 20,000 farming households to attend private schools in 2015, accompanying measures. More received high-quality rice seed up from 264,434 in 2014. than half of the beneficiaries are to avert hunger and revive the women and children. From 2011 to 2015, project agricultural sector in the wake of interventions resulted in 2,669 the Ebola crisis. 1.6 million households in urban additional qualified primary school areas received access to electricity 10,800 hours of on-the-job training teachers. between 2009 and 2015, LIBERIA were provided from 2011 to 2015 HONDURAS through a project to improve and benefiting 3.7 million people. 20,000 farming maintain roads. households received high- 45 percent of the rural population From 2013 to 2015, 14,388 had access to an all-season road in quality rice seed to avert people in targeted neighborhoods, MADAGASCAR 2015, up from 32 percent in 2007. hunger and revive the including more than 8,000 women, In 2015, more than 2.9 million agricultural sector in the participated in programs to students in Madagascar benefited wake of the Ebola crisis. prevent violence as part of efforts from projects financed by IDA to create safer communities ABCs of IDA | 7 MYANMAR SOLOMON ISLANDS From 2013 to 2015, 850,000 From 2010 to 2016, construction people in 1,729 villages benefited of community infrastructure from 1,800 basic infrastructure employed 12,000 young people and services projects, including from vulnerable communities and projects to improve school facilities created more than 664,000 days of and village access roads. employment in the Solomon Islands. 60 percent of the people employed 37,000 students received cash were women and 53 percent were payments in the 2014-15 school between the ages of 16 and 29. year to prevent at-risk students from dropping out. Access to telephones in the Solomon Islands increased to 60 NEPAL percent in 2014, up from 8 percent in 2010. The cost of a three-minute From 2008 to 2014, 14,300 mobile call to a local number families of people who died in dropped to 13 cents in 2014, down conflict and 4,500 widows received from $1.20 in 2010. cash payments and 14,770 people affected by conflict received SOUTH SUDAN skills training and job placement services. From 2013 to 2016, 80,000 people benefited from 29 community SIERRA LEONE infrastructure projects in South Sudan, including the construction Public revenues from the fisheries and rehabilitation of clinics, sector increased from $0.9 million schools, and boreholes. in 2008 to $3.8 million in 2013, SOUTH SUDAN a 322 percent increase over 5 1.2 million long-lasting insecticide- 1.2 million long-lasting insecticide-treated malaria years, thanks to a program to curtail illegal fishing and establish treated malaria nets were purchased and/or distributed in nets were purchased and/or distributed in South Sudan in conservation zones dedicated to South Sudan in 2014, up from 2014, up from 126,451 in 2012. local small-scale fishing. 126,451 in 2012. 374,206 children ages 6 to 59 8 | ABCs of IDA months received a dose of vitamin 2015 as part of a social safety A in 2013, a 2,000 percent net program to combat child increase since 2011. malnutrition in Togo. 47,287 children under 12 months YEMEN* in South Sudan received the DPT3 vaccination to protect against From 2013 to 2014, 2.35 million diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus people received cash transfers in 2013, up from 16,986 in 2011. to alleviate a sharp increase in the poverty rate from 43 percent SRI LANKA in 2009 to 55 percent in 2012 following a crisis in Yemen in 2011. Between 1999 and 2014, 283,000 More than half of the recipients people benefited from a project to were women. improve livelihoods in communities affected by conflict. The project From 2012 to 2015, 101,042 people helped repair over 2,000 accessed improved primary health kilometers of rural roads and care services, 121,193 people had increase irrigated land by 54,000 access to improved water sources, hectares. More than 100,000 and 41,039 people had access to families received low-interest improved sanitation facilities. loans to support farming or small businesses. From 2012 to 2016, two IDA- supported polio immunization SRI LANKA TOGO campaigns vaccinated 4.3 million children under 5 years old in Between 1999 and 2014, 283,000 people benefited From 2012 to 2015, 3,275 people 21 governorates in Yemen. The from a project to improve livelihoods in communities affected benefited from the construction of Bank has also supported routine, by conflict. The project helped repair over 2,000 kilometers of 90 schools with 248 classrooms, integrated outreach sessions to rural roads and increase irrigated land by 54,000 hectares. 13 health centers, 44 boreholes, provide immunization, mother and More than 100,000 families received low-interest loans to four community latrines, two rural child health, and nutrition and support farming or small businesses. roads and crossing structures, and disease control services, as well as two market sheds. health education to communities with no access to fixed medical * As of March 11, 2015, the security situation in Yemen deteriorated to the degree that the World Bank 14,016 people received financial facilities. could no longer exercise fiduciary or management oversight, and disbursement has been suspended on all assistance between 2013 and Bank-funded projects. While the suspension remains, where possible and under emergency procedures, arrangements have been made with development partners to resume funding to key projects. ABCs of IDA | 9 KOSOVO From 2008 to 2015, the number of days needed to complete a record of purchase or sale of property dropped from 30 days to about 10 days with the help of a project to improve tenure security and develop the real estate market in post-conflict Kosovo. 10 | ABCs of IDA ABCs of IDA | 11 The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433 USA ida.worldbank.org Facebook.com/IDA.wbg Twitter.com/WBG_Fin4Dev YouTube.com/WorldBank 12 | ABCs of IDA