91225 PROGRESS REPORT 2014 RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM The Rapid Social Response Program (RSR) is a multidonor program that was established in 2009 to help the world’s poorest countries, in partnership with the World Bank, build effective social protection systems. RSR is one of the key instruments for implementing the World Bank’s Social Protection and Labor Strategy for Resilience, Equity and Opportunity in countries eligible for International Development Association (IDA) support. RSR has been generously supported by the Russian Federation, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden. PROGRESS REPORT 2014 RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments.................................................................................................vii RSR Chronology of Events, July 2009 to May 2014............................................. viii Reporting on Progress ........................................................................................... 1 Summary Accomplishments.............................................................................. 2 Key Results and Performance Indicators........................................................... 9 Operational Procedures.....................................................................................13 Lessons Learned...............................................................................................14 Special Section: Where Are the Poor?..............................................................18 RSR Project Task Team Leaders........................................................................... 19 Theme 1: Support to New and Improved Social Protection and Labor Systems.....23 Afghanistan....................................................................................................... 25 Côte d’Ivoire..................................................................................................... 27 India.................................................................................................................. 29 Kyrgyz Republic................................................................................................ 33 Lesotho............................................................................................................. 35 Mali................................................................................................................... 37 Nicaragua.......................................................................................................... 39 Senegal..............................................................................................................41 Sierra Leone..................................................................................................... 43 Theme 2: Increased Learning and Knowledge Sharing for Social Protection Service Delivery.................................................................................................... 45 Client Registry Survey (CAPI)........................................................................... 47 South-South Learning...................................................................................... 49 THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Theme 3: Protecting Access to Basic Services to the Most Vulnerable in Times of Crisis................................................................................................... 51 Nutrition in Africa.............................................................................................. 53 RSR Project Portfolio and Associated IDA Projects: March 2010–March 2014...... 57 RSR Project Portfolio........................................................................................ 58 Associated IDA Projects................................................................................... 73 2014 RSR-MDTF Financial Report........................................................................ 83 Status of Contributions and Total Cash Received............................................ 84 RSR Program Grant Allocation by Trust Fund Type.......................................... 87 RSR Results Framework and Indicators................................................................ 89 References............................................................................................................ 93 vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T his report was authored by the members of the Rapid Social Response Program (RSR) Management Team, Hideki Mori, Kerstin Stewart, Cynthia E. Lopez, Ugo Gentilini, and Inas Ellaham. The authors are extremely grateful for the generous support of RSR as well as comments and inputs from the five RSR donors, especially their representatives: Andrei Bokarev, Director, Department of International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; Tom Eriksen, Special Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway; Heather Kindness, Senior Policy Advisor, U.K. Department for International Development (DfID); Paba Griffin, Senior Policy Officer, Depart- ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australian Aid Program (formerly AusAID); and Kaviraj Appadu, Senior Policy Specialist, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The preparation of this report—as well as RSR operations—has also benefited from the guidance, advice, and support of many managers and colleagues of the World Bank, including Arup Banerji, Senior Director, Global Practice for Social Protection and Labor; Anush Bezhanyan, Sector Manager, Global Practice for Social Protection and Labor; Ruslan Yemtsov, Safety Net Team Leader, Global Practice for Social Protection and Labor; Sophie W. Warlop, Senior Operations Officer, Africa Regional Vice President’s Unit; Andrei Markov, Senior Partnership Specialist, Office of Global Partnership and Trust Fund Operations; and the past and present Human Development Vice Presidents, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Keith E. Hansen, and Elizabeth M. King. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the more than 100 RSR task team leaders listed on page 19 as well as their team members. It is their hard work, cre- ativity, commitment to excellence, and dedication to their clients that have made RSR a highly successful program. RSR Chronology of Events, July 2009 to May 2014 7th call for proposals launched May 2014 $13 m received from Norway Dec. 2013 6th round of proposals approved Sept. 2013 $8 m received from United Kingdom 6th call for proposals launched Aug. 2013 June 2013 5th round of proposals approved 5th call for proposals launched March 2013 Donor agreement to extend closing from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2018 Nov. 2012 Agreement signed with Sweden $10 m received Agreement signed with Australia June 2012 $2.9 m received Oct. 2011 4th round of proposals approved Aug. 2011 4th call for proposals launched $15 m received from Russian Federation July 2011 April 2011 3rd round of proposals approved 3rd call for proposals launched March 2011 $1.6 m received from United Nov. 2010 Kingdom immediately allocated to approved activities 2nd round of proposals approved Sept. 2010 July 2010 $15 m received from Russian Federation 2nd call for proposals launched June 2010 1st round of proposals approved ($28.4 m) March 2010 Agreement signed with Norway $28.5 m received from Norway and Dec. 2009 1st call for proposals launched Russian Federation $1.6 m received from United Kingdom Agreement signed with Russian Oct. 2009 Federation July 2009 Agreement signed w/ United Kingdom Reporting on Progress THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM T his report summarizes progress made by the Rapid Social Response Pro- gram (RSR), with special emphasis on the last 12 months. RSR was estab- lished in 2009 with initial support from the Russian Federation, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Australia and Sweden joined the program in 2012 and 2013, respectively. While originally established as a crisis response mechanism, the current mission of RSR is to be catalytic, transformative, and forward-looking in its support to the development and strengthening of social protection and labor (SPL) systems in low-income countries eligible for International Development Association (IDA) support. Summary Accomplishments RSR became operational in December 2009. Since then, it has received 275 funding proposals and approved 131 projects in 63 countries (see map on pp. 4 and 5 for an overview of RSR project countries). Even more countries have received indirect benefits from RSR-financed activities and products, such as South-South learning forums, communities of practice, and analytical/operational toolkits. Key facts about RSR are summarized in table 1. In its more than four years of existence, RSR has gone through two distinct phases. The first was a crisis response phase, lasting from its inception through 2 the end of 2012. The program then moved into its second phase: SPL system building and strengthening. PH A SE 1: C RISIS RE SP ONSE The original RSR mandate was to help low-income countries cope with major crises such as the food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008–11.1 Consequently, in its early years, RSR funded projects that would mitigate the immediate impact of the food, fuel, and financial crises on poor and vulnerable populations—par- ticularly infants and young children. Examples of these projects include the Gambia: Rapid Response Nutrition Security Improvement Projects ($3.2 million), Mali: Piloting Effective Early Childhood Development Services ($2.2 million), and Haiti: Household Development Agent Pilot ($3.2 million). These were among the 45 projects approved in early March 2010 during the first rounds of competitive selection (see RSR chronology on page viii). Although they were relatively small given the magnitude of the crisis facing beneficiary countries, the projects provided critical services and in-kind benefits to the poor and vulnerable. While effective in providing small grants in Phase 1, RSR’s comparative advan- tage was not in emergency crisis response. Its limited role in this area was a con- sequence of its funding size. Total programmable resources during Phase 1 were about $60.8 million—an amount smaller than that for typical safety net projects. 1 There are many definitions of “low-income countries.” RSR defines these as countries eligible for IDA financing, listed in http://www.worldbank.org/ida/borrowing-countries.html. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Table 1: The RSR Program at a Glance Operational since December 2009 Donors Australia, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom Total programmable resources paid in $90.5 million Number of competitive selection rounds 7 (1 Catalyst Fund + 6 Multi-Donor Trust Fund) Number of proposals received 275 Number of projects approved 131 Number of proposals approved for Africa (49.5% of 59 allocated resources) Countries that have directly benefited 62 African countries that have directly benefited 31 Average project size $572,163 Largest project $3.2 million Number of RSR projects and their total value 67 projects, $41.9 million associated with IDA operations Number of IDA operations and their total value 68 operations, $3.8 billion associated with RSR IDA/RSR association ratio: project-to-project average 90.2 3 IDA/RSR association ratio: program as a whole 39.3 Projected SPL coverage by associated IDA operations 42.1 million Projected female SPL coverage 21.0 million Average RSR $ to catalyze SPL coverage $2.15/person For example, IDA funding for Madagascar’s Emergency, Food Security and Social Protection Project (P147514; February 2014) was $65 million; for Kenya’s National Integrated Safety Net Program (P131305; May 2013), it was $250 million. And in Typical IDA funding of a safety net the case of Bangladesh’s Safety Net Systems for the Poorest Project (P132634; July 2013), the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved a $500 million IDA project exceeds $50 million, and package. Even so, this funding covered less than one-fifth of the $2.7 billion project cost, with the government of Bangladesh paying the remainder. Given its can reach up to $500 million. small resource envelope, RSR’s role in alleviating the immediate impact of major crises in countries was quite limited. It was primarily for this reason that RSR began placing more emphasis on its catalytic role and preparedness for future crises rather than the mitigation of those of the present day. It thus focused on helping countries build and strengthen their social protection systems—since countries without adequate systems are less able to respond effectively to a crisis. For example, by the onset of the food, fuel, and financial crises, some middle-income countries like Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico had already spent nearly two decades building their social THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Map 1: RSR Project Countries Albania Haiti Dominica Guatemala St. Lucia Mauritania Mali Niger Honduras St. Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Senegal El Salvador Nicaragua The Gambia Burkina Faso Guinea Nigeria Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia Panama d’Ivoire Colombia Liberia Cameroon a ni o an BeTog D.R. of Uganda n Gh Congo Congo Kenya São Tomé and Príncipe Rwanda Burundi Tanzania Malawi Peru Angola Zambia Mozambique Bolivia 4 Zimbabwe This map was produced by the Map Design Unit of The World Bank. The boundaries, colors, denominations and any other information shown on this map do not imply, on the part of The World Bank Group, any judgment on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of Lesotho such boundaries. protection systems and institutions. The advantage of having systems already in place is that they can be triggered or adapted at the onset of a crisis—e.g., to increase the level of benefits or lower eligibility thresholds. In countries where SPL systems were less developed, the food, fuel, and financial crises reversed a precrisis trend of economic growth and increased the number of extreme poor—a population segment they were already relatively unprepared to reach. For example, in the low-income countries of Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, and Cam- bodia, social protection transfers extended during the food, fuel, and financial crises reached only small percentages of the poorest populations: in Timor-Leste, 27 percent of the poorest one-fifth of its population in 2007; in Afghanistan, 15 percent in that same year; and in Cambodia, 2 percent of its poorest in 2008 (World Bank 2012). Through four rounds of competitive selection, RSR received 196 proposals in Phase 1 and approved 94. These were submitted under three themes eligible for RSR support (table 2). The most popular theme under which proposals were submitted was Theme 1: Building Safety Nets and Other Social Protection and Labor Systems to Protect the Poor Before a Crisis Hits (Systems, for short). It PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 IBRD 39319R1 FEBRUARY 2014 Mongolia nia Kyrgyz Rep. Tajikistan Afghanistan Bhutan Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh India Myanmar Rep. of Yemen Cambodia Djibouti Ethiopia Sri Lanka roon D.R. of Uganda Maldives ngo Congo Kenya Rwanda Burundi Papua New Tanzania Guinea Malawi Africa Timor-Leste Angola Zambia Mozambique Eastern Europe and Central Asia Madagascar East Asia and the Pacific Zimbabwe 5 Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East and North Africa South Asia Lesotho Table 2: Theme Typology for Phase 1, Applicable to Projects Approved between December 2009 and February 2013 Building Safety Nets and Other Social THEME 1: SYSTEMS Protection and Labor Systems to Protect the Poor Before a Crisis Hits Protecting Access to Basic Services for Most THEME 2: BENEFITS Vulnerable Tapping into Knowledge to Share Lessons THEME 3: KNOWLEDGE and Create Toolkits was addressed in 77 percent of the approved projects, and received 53 per- cent of the approved resources. Although only 16 percent of projects included Theme 2: Protecting Access to Basic Services for the Most Vulnerable (Ben- efits, for short)—including those mentioned earlier for the Gambia, Haiti, and Mali—this theme received the second largest share of resources: 39 percent. Finally, Theme 3: Tapping into Knowledge to Share Lessons and Create Toolkits (Knowledge, for short) was also addressed by 16 percent of the projects, but THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM only received 8 percent of the resources allocated. These numbers, especially the share of projects addressing the themes concerning systems and benefits, changed significantly in Phase 2 (see figures 1 and 2). PHASE 2: SPL SYSTEMS BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING RSR as a crisis response program was originally planned to close by June 2013. However, in its concluding chapter, The World Bank 2012–2022 Social Protection and Labor Strategy, approved by the Board of Executive Directors in April 2012, gave RSR a new mandate with the following statement: a central catalyst for implementing a key aspect of the strategy would be the RSR umbrella trust fund, supporting systems-building (especially in lower income countries) and global knowledge-sharing in SPL, especially South-South (World Bank 2012). To fulfill this new mandate, in November 2012, RSR Multi-Donor Trust Fund (RSR-MDTF) donors approved a five-year extension of RSR from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2018.2 This extension marked the official end of Phase 1 (crisis response) and the beginning of Phase 2 (systems building). The strategic objectives of this extension were to (1) position RSR as an instru- ment to support the implementation of the SPL Strategy in low-income countries 6 during its first five years, and (2) allow the program to expand its coalition and raise additional resources. As a result, in November 2012 and August 2013, respectively, Sweden and the United Kingdom signed the administrative agreement and became mable members of the RSR-MDTF. Consequently, RSR’s cumulative program­ resources have exceeded $105 million, of which $44.5 million is for Phase 2. RSR’s thematic typology has also been modified. In Phase 2, the number and substance of high-level themes remains the same as in Phase 1, except that Themes 2 and 3 have been reversed; additionally, more detailed subthemes have been introduced (table 3), enabling better delineated tracking and analysis. The Phase 2 portfolio reflects the prioritization of systems (figures 1 and 2). Since Phase 2 began, RSR has approved 37 new projects ($14.2 million in total) out of 79 proposals ($32.8 million), bringing the total number of projects in the portfolio to 131. Competitive selection Round 7 is currently under way. So far, Theme 1 (systems) is dominant, both in terms of the number of projects approved and the amount of funding allocated. Nearly 95 percent of the projects address sys- tems in one way or another. The proportion of resources allocated for Theme 1 is 88 percent of the total funding amount. While the share of knowledge (now Theme 2) has not changed dramatically, the benefits theme has become less 2   The Russian Federation, Norway, and Australia. The United Kingdom, while it had contributed to a smaller RSR Catalyst Fund, was not yet a member of the RSR-MDTF, the primary RSR instrument. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Table 3: Theme Typology for Phase 2, Applicable to Projects Approved March 2013 Onward THEME SUBTHEME a. Systems diagnostics, analysis, and stocktaking Diagnostic studies, stocktaking notes, and mapping of SPL 1.  programs, beneficiaries, or data collection practices 2.  Identification or development of effective options by comparing existing programs, their performance and cost-efficiency with programs in similar circumstances in other countries b. Specific elements of system components, platforms, and architecture Building systems for robust identification of beneficiaries and 1.  development of registries Improving processes for determination of eligibility 2.  1: SYSTEMS Developing effective appeal and grievance procedures 3.  NEW OR IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEM Streamlining payment systems to minimize the risk for error, fraud 4.  COMPONENTS, PLATFORMS, AND and corruption and increase efficiency ARCHITECTURE FOR A SPECIFIC 5.  Setting up appropriate evaluation arrangements COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES Establishing practices for communication and outreach 6.  7.  Building information systems for better service management Improving administrative processes and clarifying rules 8.  c. Interministerial program harmonization of policies, programs, and 7 administrative arrangements Coordination of legal and policy-level frameworks 1.  Integration of individual programs into coordinated national 2.  systems through harmonization and use of common components, platforms, or architecture (from the list b 1–8 above) 2: KNOWLEDGE a. South-South and peer-to-peer learning INCREASED CROSS-NATIONAL b. Communities of practice LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE- SHARING FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION c. Analytical and operational toolkit AND LABOR SERVICE DELIVERY a. Providing nutrition benefits, particularly for young children and 3: BENEFITS pregnant/lactating mothers PROTECTION OF ACCESS TO BASIC b. Providing other forms of social assistance benefits: cash transfers SERVICES IN TIMES OF CRISIS (conditional and unconditional), in-kind transfers, public works, FOR A SPECIFIC COUNTRY OR waivers for school fees and health costs, protection of particularly COUNTRIES vulnerable groups (e.g., protection from gender bias), and required administrative support THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Figure 1: Resource Allocation by Theme Figure 2: Resource Allocation by Theme during Phase 1 during Phase 2 Theme 1: Systems 88% Theme 1: Theme 2: Systems Benefits 53% 39% Theme 2: Knowledge Theme 3: 3% Theme 3: Knowledge Benefits 8% 9% popular in Phase 2. Only 1 out of 37 projects (2.7 percent) addresses this theme, and the resource allocation is also small at 3 percent (figure 2). Compared with 8 Phase 1, systems (Theme 1) has become far more dominant. As indicated in figure 3, which shows the frequency of themes and subthemes in RSR grant proposals, the top five most demanded subthemes were all under Theme 1: Figure 3: Frequency of Themes and Subthemes in RSR Program Portfolio 1a1 Diagnostic studies, stocktaking notes, and mapping 62.2 1c2 Integration of individual programs into coordinated national systems 62.2 1b1 Building systems for robust identification of beneficiaries and development of registries 54.1 1b2 Improving processes for determination of eligibility 54.1 1b7 Building information systems for better service management 51.4 1a2 Identification or development of effective options 43.2 1b8 Improving administrative processes and clarifying rules 40.5 1c1 Coordination of legal and policy-level frameworks 37.8 1b6 Establishing practices for communication and outreach 27.0 1b5 Setting up appropriate evaluation arrangements 24.3 1b4 Streamlining payment systems 21.6 1b3 Developing effective appeal and grievance procedures 21.6 2a South-South and peer-to-peer learning 16.2 2c Analytical and operational toolkit 8.1 2b Communities of practice 5.4 3a Providing nutrition benefits, particularly for young children and pregnant/lactating mothers 2.7 3b Providing other forms of social assistance benefits 2.7 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Percentage PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 • 1a1: Diagnostic studies, stocktaking notes, and mapping of SPL programs, beneficiaries, or data collection practices (addressed by 62.2 percent of the projects) • 1c2: Integration of individual programs into coordinated national systems through harmonization and use of common components, platforms, or archi- tecture (62.2 percent) • 1b1: Building systems for robust identification of beneficiaries and develop- ment of registries (54.1 percent) • 1b2: Improving processes for determination of eligibility (54.1 percent) • 1b7: Building information systems for better service management (51.4 percent) The focus on IDA-eligible countries did not change from Phase 1 to Phase 2. In both phases, countries requesting RSR grants under Themes 1 and 3 had to be IDA-eligible. For Theme 2 projects—which deal with knowledge sharing and for which information exchange among countries at different levels of development is key to strengthening evolving social protection systems—the RSR administra- tive agreement allows the inclusion of countries that are eligible to borrow from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). However, because only a small share of resources has been allocated to Theme 2 (8 per- cent in Phase 1; 3 percent in Phase 2 thus far), RSR support of middle-income countries has been very limited. 9 Key Results and Performance Indicators Figure 4 illustrates RSR’s results framework, as agreed upon with the five donors and the World Bank in June 2013. The framework is articulated around three levels of results: (1) impacts, (2) outcomes, and (3) outputs. Outputs are what the implementation agency can exert the most control upon, while out- comes and impacts tend to be more contingent on a variety of contextual and exogenous factors. This is even more pronounced for any initiative’s expected influence upon “higher-order” domains such as reduced poverty and inequality among targeted populations. To properly reflect the nature of such classes of results, the results framework maps them around a pyramid-shaped matrix. In this framework, the higher-level results (e.g., impacts) are placed toward the top of the pyramid. Moving from the pyramid’s base toward the top illustrates how additional time, complexity, and combinations of factors progressively affect materialization of results. IMPA C T L E V E L— MORE P OOR P E OP L E C OV E RE D BY SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS As implied by the results framework, RSR’s results chain is simple and straight- forward. To begin, RSR provides a small amount of funding to facilitate SPL sys- tem-building and strengthening activities in IDA-eligible countries. Then, many of those efforts mobilize and facilitate the preparation of a full-fledged IDA-funded project. Finally, the IDA project actually provides needed SPL coverage (figure 5). THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Figure 4: RSR Results Framework Pyramid + REDUCED POVERTY AND INEQUALITY Impact MORE POOR PEOPLE COVERED BY SP SYSTEMS Indicator SP coverage in IDA-supported projects (# total, by country,gender) Outcome ENHANCED CAPACITY OF SP SYSTEMS TO PROTECT POOR AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE Increased resource Increased resource Global SP data Indicators allocation to SP through allocation to SP overall budget accessible (# new Time and IDA (# $ millions) (domestic and other countries in ASPIRE/ funding) (# $ millions) SPARCS) complexity Outputs NEW/IMPROVED SP SYSTEMS INCREASED AWARENESS PROTECTION OF AND COMPONENTS OF SP OPTIONS ACCESS TO BASIC System diagnostic and stocktaking SERVICES DURING (2 sub-output dimensions, # and $) South-South learning events CRISES (# participants, # countries # of direct Component design and development Indicators represented) beneficiaries (8 sub-output dimensions, and $) Participation in community of practice Interagency program harmonization (# of countries, # countries represented) (2 sub-output dimensions, # and $) Customer feedback (# client Toolkit users governments interviewed) (# downloads, # training participants) LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE ACCESS TO BASIC SERVICES Themes SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS DURING CRISES 10 — Diagnostics — South-South Forum — Safety net benefits for nutrition Activities — Components — Community of Practice — Other forms of safety nets — Harmonization — Toolkits Figure 5: The RSR Results Chain RSR funds a small Full fledged IDA In-country projects amount for system operations/ funded by IDA expand building/strengthening funding mobilized SPL coverage At the end of the reporting period (December 2013), approximately 42.1 million individuals were estimated to be under the SPL coverage of the IDA-funded oper- ations catalyzed by RSR. Of those, 21.0 million (50 percent) are estimated to be women. (These numbers are derived from data available from the project appraisal documents, implementation status and results reports, and implementation com- pletion reports of IDA operations associated with RSR.) Total RSR programmable resources as of this writing are $90.5 million; it is possible to extrapolate that $2.15 in additional RSR resources leads to the expansion of SPL coverage for one addi- tional person (table 4). PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Table 4: Impact-Level Indicators IMPACT INDICATORS 2013 More poor people covered Social protection coverage in IDA-supported projects (both genders) 42,153,344 by social protection systems Social protection coverage in IDA-supported projects (female only) 10,200,244 OU T C OME L E V E L— E NH A N C E D C A PA C I T Y OF SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS TO PROTECT POOR AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE RSR outcomes are measured by three indicators as noted in table 5, i.e.: • Increased resource allocation to social protection through IDA (million $) • Increased resource allocation to social protection overall budget, domestic, and other funding (million $) • Global data accessible (number of new countries in the ASPIRE/SPARCS databases) Table 5: Outcome-Level Indicators IMPACT INDICATORS 2013 Enhanced capacity of social Increased resource allocation to social protection through IDA (million $) 3,326.4 protection systems to 11 protect poor and vulnerable Increased resource allocation to social protection overall budget, 2,421.9 people domestic, and other funding (million $) Global data accessible (number of new countries in ASPIRE/SPARCS) 57 In terms of IDA leveraging, $3.3 billion worth of IDA operations (59 operations) were associated with RSR at the end of the reporting period (December 2013). As of May 2014, the numbers had grown to $3.8 billion and 68 operations. Leveraging of non-IDA resources has reached about $2.4 billion. It is important to note that this number is dominated by a single country, Bangladesh. As mentioned earlier, IDA provides merely 18 percent ($500 million) of the total cost of the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest Project (P132634; July 2013); the rest ($2.2 billion) comes from the Bangladesh government. Similarly, in the case of the Nigeria Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (P126964; March 2013), the cost shar- ing between IDA and the country government was $300 million and $100 million (75 percent by IDA). And funding for the Tanzania Productive Social Safety Net (P124045; March 2012) comes from IDA ($220 million), the Tanzanian government ($4 million), the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID) ($16 million), and Spain ($0.9 million). However, for most projects, IDA is the sole financier. The final indicator at the outcome level is the number of countries in the ASPIRE and SPARCS databases. ASPIRE (the Atlas of Social Protection: Indicators of Resilience and Equity) is an ongoing project that aims to improve SPL data quality, comparability, and availability to better inform SPL policies and programs. THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Its portal (http://datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/) generates harmonized indi- cators to assess performance of social assistance, social insurance, and labor market programs based on nationally representative household survey data. Most indicators are estimated by program type for the entire population and by quintiles of both pre- and post-transfer welfare distribution. At the end of the reporting period (December 2013), ASPIRE contained data for 57 countries, most of which were middle-income countries. However, this num- ber is growing very rapidly. As of May 2014, 69 countries were in the ASPIRE database, and a total of 117 were expected by the end of June 2014. SPARCS (Social Protection Assessment of Results and Country Sys- tems) —recently renamed SPA (Social Protection Assessment) —is an open source platform for defining and assessing key system metrics and outcomes. Technical design of assessment modules has advanced considerably since last year, and awaits final approval by the Social Protection Inter-Agency Consultation Board. Consequently, no country data are yet available in the SPA database. OUTPUT LEVELS Because of their extensive range, the complete set of output-level indicators are presented at the end of this report, beginning on page 90. This section pres- ents a few critical indicators and their implications. 12 Thematic Characteristics Theme 1 (systems) has claimed the largest share of RSR resource allocations during the 2010–13 period, reflecting the nature of the program. As fig- Figure 6: Resource Allocations by Theme ure 6 shows, RSR’s overall programmable resources have been largely 2010–13 allocated to Theme 1 (60 percent), followed by Theme 3 (32 percent). As discussed earlier, the allocations changed from Phase 1 to Phase 2. Theme 1’s share increased from 53 percent to 88 percent, while Theme 3 decreased from 39 percent to 9 percent. Theme 3: Benefits Of 131 projects approved since 2010, 108 (82.4 percent) are related to 32% Theme 1, 22 (16.8 percent) to Theme 2, and 16 (12.2 percent) to Theme 3 Theme 1: (figure 7).3 This translates Systems 60% into average project Figure 7: Number of Projects by Theme Theme 2: costs of approximately Knowledge $416,000 for Theme 1, Theme 1 8% $280,000 for Theme 2, Theme 2 and $1,491,000 for Theme 3 Theme 3. The overall 0 50 100 150 average project size is about $572,000. 3   Because a project can have more than one theme, numbers and percentages do not sum to 131 or 100 percent. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Theme 2 (knowledge) has been claiming the smallest share of resource alloca- tion (8 percent); this share has been relatively constant between the two phases. The flagship activities in this theme have been four global South-South learning forums and one Asia learning forum. Theme 3 (benefits) has drastically reduced its share both in terms of resource allocation (39 percent in Phase 1 to 9 percent in Phase 2) and number of projects (16 percent of the Phase 1 portfolio to 3 percent of the Phase 2 portfolio). This is consistent with the reorientation of the RSR program focus. Figure 8: Resource Allocations by Region, as of May 2014 Regional Distribution Reflecting the regional distribution of Sub-Saharan Africa IDA-eligible countries, most of the RSR 49.5% program proposals have come from Africa (49.5 percent), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (14.2 per- Global East Asia and cent) and South Asia (14.1 percent), 7.3% the Pacific as shown in figure 8. Africa’s share 5.8% South Asia increased from 46.2 percent during 14.1% Eastern Europe and Central Asia Phase 1 to 63.9 percent in Phase 2; 5.9% submissions from Latin America and the Latin America Caribbean dropped from a 15.9 percent Middle East and the Carribean 13 share to 7.0 percent; submissions from and North Africa 14.2% South Asia dropped from 15.6 percent 3.2% to 7.9 percent. Operational Procedures Unlike many other trust fund programs, RSR has very few program-specific pro- cedures, and relies on the World Bank’s existing quality assurance and fiduciary control mechanisms that have been devised to maintain both quality assurance and responsiveness. RSR-funded projects follow the Bank’s rigorous standard operational policies and procedures. RSR’s Bank-executed knowledge services such as technical assistance and economic sector work follow the same strict review process all non-RSR-funded projects are required to follow—includ- ing through the concept stage, output and endorsement stage, outreach and completion stage—with peer and decision reviews chaired by the respective country director. External training such as South-South forums also requires reviews at the concept stage and delivery of learning/knowledge-sharing activity and completion stage. RSR’s recipient-executed projects follow the streamlined procedures and policies established for small recipient-executed trust funds, with standardized templates complemented with a risk-based approach. One of the few RSR-specific procedures is its call for expressions of inter- est—i.e., call for proposals. Only trust fund–accredited World Bank staff mem- bers may submit an expression of interest on behalf of the beneficiary country. In addition, the expression of interest must be cleared by immediate line managers THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM prior to submission. Once received, proposals are reviewed and scored by two lead/senior-level subject specialists, using 20 technical and operational criteria ranging from 5 (most favorable) to 1 (least favorable). Proposals with the highest average scores are forwarded to the RSR Program Management Committee, consisting of a group of directors headed by a vice president, for review and approval or rejection. Reflecting the demand-driven and results-oriented nature of RSR, one of the most important criteria in evaluating RSR funding proposals is the project’s ability to be implemented. This quality, by definition, requires strong client owner- ship even for relatively small-scale technical assistance projects. To ensure the proposal’s consistency with the Bank’s overall strategy to assist its clients, the applicable World Bank country director’s office is consulted from a very early stage of concept development. Other key evaluation criteria are cost-benefit consideration and solid monitoring and evaluation arrangements. In sum, the RSR review process looks for projects that will significantly strengthen SPL systems by generating concrete results. Only IDA-eligible countries (including “blend” countries) are currently eligible under Themes 1 and 3. Theme 2 activities are required to benefit two or more client countries, and at least half of these countries must be IDA-eligible. In addi- tion, preference will be given to the following: 14 • Countries that have not yet received RSR support • New activities, which are unrelated to previous/existing RSR-supported activi- ties within the same country or regional context • IDA-only countries over blend countries Lessons Learned During the last four and a half years, RSR has accumulated several useful lessons, which have been reflected back to the operation and approach of the program itself. Table 6: RSR and IDA Association L E S SON 1: TA K ING R I S K S PAY S O F F RSR AMOUNT IDA AMOUNT DATE (MILLION $) (MILLION $) RATIO At present, the leveraging ratio of RSR projects associated with IDA operations July 2011 18.0 585.0 32.4 is over 90 (table 6)—i.e., $1 of RSR January 2012 25.1 1,107.6 44.1 funding is associated with $90.20 in March 2012 25.5 1,332.6 52.2 IDA financing. Less than three years ago, the ratio was only 32.4—although August 2012 28.3 1,612.6 56.9 still a respectable figure. In many of December 2012 30.6 2,375.1 77.5 the 62 countries it has assisted, RSR March 2013 34.3 3,106.0 90.6 has stepped in when the country was not quite committed to SPL and paved May 2014 41.9 3,784.4 90.2 the way to full-fledged IDA operations. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Without taking risks, the IDA SPL portfolio and the resulting SPL coverage expansion (to 42.1 million people) could have been far smaller than they are today. RSR’s approach to risk is analogous to that of venture capitalists in the pri- vate sector. It has been an important factor in catalyzing IDA operations as well as other transformative policy/program changes in client countries. LE SSON 2: PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE External agencies like international financial institutions (including the World Bank), United Nations agencies, and bilateral donors often press Figure 9: Increase of IDA/RSR Association for quick results. However, as figure 9 clearly shows, often two or even Million $ three years are required before the catalytic impact of seed funding 100 begins to fully germinate. For example, the Cameroon Social Safety Nets Project (P128534; $50 million) was approved in March 2013. The 80 corresponding RSR project, Strengthening Safety Net Response to 60 Crises ($550,000), was part of the first round selection in March 2010. 40 Similarly, the approval of the Mozambique Social Safety Net Project 20 (P129524; $50 million) occurred 30 months after the counterpart RSR project was added to the portfolio in September 2010. Because weak 0 Jul Jan Jul Jan Jul Apr capacities and limited resources are among the defining characteristics 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 of IDA eligibility, persistence is an essential ingredient in solving the problems of those countries RSR is designed to assist. 15 LESSON 3: NOT ALL RSR PROJECTS LEAD TO IDA OPERATIONS Above half of all approved RSR projects—67 of 131—have been associated with IDA operations. Four types of RSR projects do not tend to catalyze IDA. • Knowledge management projects that target multiple countries such as South-South and peer-to-peer learning, communities of practice, and analytical and operational toolkits. These projects are not designed to directly support a country’s systemic efforts. While in some cases, partici- pation in a learning forum or community of practice has eventually led to an IDA operation, such causality is often difficult to clearly establish, unlike with country-specific technical assistance projects. Cases of clear attribution do exist; for example, the Cash Transfers—Design for Scaling Up in Sub-Saharan Africa projects led to three IDA operations in Benin, Mali, and Tanzania. • Projects approved in the early rounds of RSR operation when the program had a stronger immediate crisis-response orientation. The Gambia’s Rapid Response Nutrition Security Improvement Project and the early childhood development projects in Mali and Malawi are examples of such projects. Their objectives were not to build SPL systems, but to mitigate the immediate impact of a major crisis. • Changing circumstances and priorities of the beneficiary country. Projects for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen had to be canceled because of the difficult political and social environment. In Nicaragua, the THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Crisis Module for the Nicaraguan Labor Force had to be withdrawn because the newly elected government had priorities that differed from those of the previous administration. • Projects for which non-IDA follow-up was expected. The government of Timor-Leste decided to follow up the RSR-financed social protection admin- istration projects through its own financing. Zimbabwe also has not sought IDA follow-up to its Productive Safety Net: Pilot Public Works Project; this is because the project is inactive. LESSON 4: PROJECTS IN SOUTH ASIA AND WE ST AFRICA SEEM TO E XPERIENCE GRE ATER DIFFICULTIE S THAN THOSE EL SE WHERE On average, RSR projects in South Asia are extended 2.2 times, for a total of 426.2 days per project. The corresponding figures in West Africa are 1.5 times and 314.7 days, respectively. Global averages are 1.4 times and 240.4 days. How- ever, the payoffs from these delays are high, as illustrated by the examples of Bangladesh and Cameroon mentioned earlier, in terms of both IDA mobilization and SPL coverage expansion. LESSON 5: DEMAND FOR RSR SUPPORT IS SHIFTING 16 Earlier, the nature of RSR-supported technical assistance was broadly policy ori- ented. Countries needed evidence to determine what kind of SPL services were needed and if those were fiscally sustainable. Increasingly, however, demand is shifting toward “how to” services. For example, participants in recent South- South learning events frequently expressed such comments as, “We don’t need more convincing that a unique ID system is needed. We want to know how to design and implement one that is most suitable to us.” Similar comments were heard about management information systems, payment systems, beneficiary registries, and many other “nitty-gritty” details of system design and imple- mentation. Because innovations are taking place within countries themselves, supporting knowledge sharing among them will continue to be important. LESSON 6: RSR STILL HAS A VERY LARGE CHALLENGE AHEAD The SPL coverage expansion resulting from IDA operations catalyzed by RSR was estimated to have reached 42.1 million people by December 2013, and is expected to grow to 58.3 million by the time those IDA operations come to an end. While this is a significant achievement, 299 million people in low-income countries alone still live on $1.25 a day or less without any SPL coverage. Adding those in middle-income countries, 871 million people live in extreme poverty without any social protection—they are out of the system (see “Special Section: Where Are the Poor?” beginning on page 17). The legacy of RSR will very well be determined by what it will do for those who still remain unprotected. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 SPECIAL SECTION: WHERE ARE THE POOR? I n the developing world, just over 1.2 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. Of those, 398 million live in low-income countries, 652 million in low- er-middle-income countries, and 167 million in upper-middle-income coun- tries (World Bank 2014b). As table S1 shows, safety net coverage of the extreme poor is the lowest in low-income countries (75 percent). However, lower-mid- dle-income countries (73 percent) are not far behind—and even in upper-mid- dle-income countries, 56 percent are unprotected. Worldwide, 871 million people live on $1.25 a day or less without publicly provided safety nets. A majority of them (479 million) are in lower-middle-income countries. Table S1: Extreme Poverty and Safety Nets Coverage % OF EXTREME # OF EXTREME % OF EXTREME POOR OUT POOR NOT POOR NOT # OF EXTREME OF TOTAL IN COVERED BY A COVERED BY A POOR DEVELOPING SOCIAL SAFETY SOCIAL SAFETY   (MILLIONS) WORLD NET NET Low-income countries 398 33 299 75 Lower-middle-income countries 652 54 479 73 17 Upper-middle-income countries 167 14 93 56 Total 1,217 871 72 With respect to the World Bank, most middle-income countries can only borrow from IBRD; some are “blend” countries, i.e., they can also access IDA credits and grants.1 As shown in figure S1, 62 countries can borrow only from IDA, 20 are IDA/IBRD blend countries (eligible to borrow from both), and 62 are only IBRD-eligible. IDA-only and blend countries are IDA-eligible coun- Figure S1: Composition of World Bank tries. Client Countries Many of the extreme poor are in fact in populous middle-income countries, most of which are only IBRD-eligible. For example, the Arab Republic of Egypt has 20 million people living below the poverty line, 62 20 62 yet is an IBRD-only country. Table S2 shows a sample of middle-income IDA Blend IBRD countries with large populations, the percentage living below the pov- erty line, and safety net coverage of the extreme poor. Several IDA-eligible countries are expected to move into the blend category, and blend countries to IBRD-only, over the next decade as 1   Country income group (based on gross national income [GNI] per capita) is only one determinant of which lending institution a country can access. Other factors include access to capital markets and vulnerability to crisis. THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM SPECIAL SECTION: WHERE ARE THE POOR? Table S2: Poverty and Safety Nets: Examples of Populous Countries % OF % OF POOREST POPULATION POPULATION 20% COVERED BY 2012 BELOW THE BELOW THE SOCIAL SAFETY POPULATION POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINE NET IBRD OR COUNTRY (MILLIONS) (MILLIONS) (SURVEY YEAR) (SURVEY YEAR) BLEND Argentina 41 n.a. n.a. 24 (2010) IBRD Brazil 198 32 16 (2012) 53 (2009) IBRD China 1,351 68 5 (1998) n.a. IBRD Colombia 48 15 32 (2012) n.a. IBRD Egypt 81 20 25 (2011) 54 (2008) IBRD India 1,237 272 22 (2012) 25 (2009) Blend Indonesia 247 27 11 (2013) 66 (2009) IBRD Mexico 121 63 52 (2012) 55 (2010) IBRD 18 Pakistan 179 39 22 (2006) 14 (2010) Blend Peru 30 8 26 (2012) 85 (2009) IBRD Philippines 97 24 25 (2012) n.a. IBRD South Africa 52 12 23 (2006) n.a. IBRD Total 3,682 580 N O T E : n.a. = not available. From World Bank’s website: http://data.worldbank.org/country/. Data regarding coverage are from the World Bank database ASPIRE: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/. their economies continue to grow. Figure S2 shows the upward trend in average growth in gross national income (GNI) per capita (using the Figure S2: Average GNI per Capita for IDA Atlas method in current U.S. dollars) for current IDA and IDA/IBRD and Blend Countries blend countries from 2004 to 2012. Avg. GNI per capita 2,500 RSR is currently the only global trust fund program for social protection. 2,000 Many country-specific or regional trust funds that can be utilized for SPL 1,500 are only for IDA-eligible countries. While the current legal arrangement for RSR prohibits it from extending support to IBRD-only countries, it 1,000 could—given its track record—play a significant role for these countries 500 as it has for IDA-eligible countries. Specifically, it could catalyze IBRD 0 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 as well as domestic financing to strengthen SPL systems to eliminate absolute poverty and boost shared prosperity. N O T E : Using Atlas method in current $. RSR PROJECT TASK TEAM LEADERS Yasser Aabdel-Aleem Awny El-Gammal (Sector Manager) Pablo Ariel Acosta (Senior Economist) Afrah Alawi Al-Ahmadi (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Harold H. Alderman (Lead Social Protection Specialist) Anastassia Alexandrova (Senior Strategy and Operations Officer) Colin Andrews (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Philippe Auffret (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Amparo Ballivian (Lead Economist) Sajitha Bashir (Sector Manager, Education) Lucy Katherine Bassett (Social Protection Specialist) Anush Bezhanyan (Sector Manager) John D. Blomquist (Lead Economist) Caryn Bredenkamp (Senior Economist) Lucilla Maria Bruni (Young Professional) Fadila Caillaud (Social Protection Specialist) Carmen Carpio (Senior Operations Officer) Yoonyoung Cho (Economist) Aline Coudouel (Lead Social Protection Specialist) Wendy Cunningham (Sector Leader) Carlo Del Ninno (Senior Economist) Halil Dundar (Lead Education Specialist) Puja Vasudeva Dutta (Senior Economist) John A. Elder (Operations Adviser) Leslie K. Elder (Senior Nutrition Specialist) Lire Ersado (Senior Economist) Tazeen Fasih (Senior Human Development Economist) Gerard Martin La Forgia (Lead Health Specialist) Anna Fruttero (Senior Economist) Marito H. Garcia (Lead Social Protection Specialist) THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Antonino Giuffrida (Senior Economist, Health) Pedro Olinto (Senior Economist) Elena E. Glinskaya (Country Sector Coordinator) Junko Onishi (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Sarah Berger Gonzalez (Social Protection Specialist) Maria Beatriz Orlando (Senior Social Development Specialist) Endashaw Tadesse Gossa (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Azedine Ouerghi (Sector Leader) Melis Ufuk Guven (Senior Social Protection Economist) Mirey Ovadiya (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Maddalena Honorati (Economist) Robert J. Palacios (Team Leader) Ziauddin Hyder (Senior Nutrition Specialist) Harry Anthony Patrinos (Sector Manager) Keiko Inoue (Senior Education Specialist) Lucian Bucur Pop (Senior Economist) Roberto F. Iunes (Senior Economist, Health) Menahem M. Prywes (Senior Economist) Oleksiy Ivaschenko (Senior Economist) Jumana N. Qamruddin (Senior Health Specialist) Nedim Jaganjac (Senior Health Specialist) Tamer Samah Rabie (Senior Health Specialist) Theresa Jones (Lead Operations Officer) Nina Rosas Raffo (Social Protection Specialist) Ole Hagen Jorgensen (Economist) Aneeka Rahman (Social Protection Economist) Pierre Joseph Kamano (Senior Education Specialist) Jasmine Rajbhandary (Social Protection Specialist) Alex Kamurase (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Andrew Sunil Rajkumar (Senior Economist, Health) Qaiser M. Khan (Sector Lead Economist) Laura B. Rawlings (Lead Social Protection Specialist) Ashi Kohli Kathuria (Senior Nutrition Specialist) Setareh Razmara (Lead Social Protection Specialist) Francesca Lamanna (Senior Economist) Joel E. Reyes (Senior Institutional Development Specialist) Jessica Leigh Leino (Senior Economist) Iamele P. Rigolini (Sector Leader) Phillippe George Pereira Guimaraes Leite (Senior Social Dena Ringold (Lead Economist) Protection Economist) Friederike Uta Rother (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva (Senior Economist) Zurab Sajaia (Senior Computational Economist) Michael M. Lokshin (Manager) Manuel Salazar (Lead Social Protection Specialist) 20 Mattias K. A. Lundberg (Senior Economist) Cristina Isabel Panasco Santos (Senior Education Specialist) Muhammad Iftikhar Malik (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Iffath Anwar Sharif (Senior Economist) Erkin Mamadaliev (Social Protection Specialist) Meera Shekar (Lead Health Specialist) Ida Manjolo (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Joana C. G. Silva (Senior Economist) Federica Marzo (Economist) Oleksiy A. Sluchynsky (Senior Economist) Tayyeb Masud (Senior Health Specialist) Verdon S. Staines (Senior Economist) Yasuhiko Matsuda (Senior Public Sector Specialist) Victoria Strokova (Young Professional) Karla J. McEvoy (Social Protection Specialist) Douglas Sumerfield (Operations Officer) Marie Chantal Messier (Senior Nutrition Specialist) Changqing Sun (Senior Economist) Cem Mete (Lead Economist) Cornelia M. Tesliuc (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Emma S. Mistiaen (Social Protection Specialist) Erwin H. R. Tiongson (Senior Economist) Louise Victoria Monchuk (Economist) Maurizia Tovo (Lead Social Development Specialist) Anne Mossige (Social Protection Specialist) Nithin Umapathi (Economist) Wezi Marianne Msisha (Senior Health Specialist) Renos Vakis (Lead Economist) Menno Mulder-Sibanda (Senior Nutrition Specialist) John Van Dyck (Senior Social Protection Specialist) Edmundo Murrugarra (Senior Social Protection Economist) Andrea Vermehren (Lead Social Protection Specialist) Somil Nagpal (Senior Health Specialist) Ingo Wiederhofer (Senior Operations Officer) Suleiman Namara (Senior Social Protection Economist) William David Wiseman (Sector Leader) Michelle J. Neuman (Senior Education Specialist) Sonya Woo (Senior Operations Officer) Philip B. O’Keefe (Lead Economist) Abdo S. Yazbeck (Lead Economist, Health) Foluso Okunmadewa (Sector Leader) Giuseppe Zampaglione (Country Manager) O n the following pages, we highlight 12 of RSR’s 122 activities that have been implemented during the past three years. As in previous reports, the project profiles are divided into three themes: Theme 1: Support to New and Improved Social Protection and Labor Systems Coordinated SPL systems bolster people and help economies grow. RSR helps to build critical parts of such systems through policy dialogue and technical assistance, and by providing the analytical work that helps the systems run efficiently and cost-effectively. RSR projects mobilize larger resources from IDA as well as other sources to complete the system- building work and help governments operate the systems to expand social protection coverage. Theme 2: Increased Learning and Knowledge Sharing for Social Protection Service Delivery RSR raises awareness on how to increase coverage of social protection in low-income countries through South-South learning initiatives and the development of communities of practice. RSR also helps to create new diagnostic techniques that can benefit individual countries or have a global impact on social safety net systems and poor people’s access to basic services. Theme 3: Protecting Access to Basic Services to the Most Vulnerable in Times of Crisis As crises hit and threaten livelihoods and human capital, RSR’s emergency window for limited-scale delivery of SPL benefits and services can be opened to prevent irreversible harm to the most vulnerable populations. RSR projects help to provide nutrition benefits, particularly to young children and their mothers, waivers for school fees and health services, and the required administrative support for efficient service delivery. Some grants approved in recent selection rounds support activities that build on previously financed RSR activities and achievements. This is the case for several of the projects profiled in this section. THEME 1: Support to New and Improved Social Protection and Labor Systems AFGHANISTAN: Helping Prepare for Change CÔTE D’IVOIRE: Weaving a Social Safety Net INDIA: Integrating and Improving Safety Net Systems KYRGYZ REPUBLIC: Modernizing Social Protection LESOTHO: Review of Social Transfer Programs for Better Protection for the Poor MALI: Investing in the Early Years of Childhood and Social Safety Nets NICARAGUA: Providing a Platform for a New Generation of Social Protection SENEGAL: Leadership and Institutions: Cornerstones of a New Social Protection System SIERRA LEONE: Consolidating Social Protection PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 AFGHANISTAN SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS HELPING PREPARE FOR CHANGE As Afghanistan transitions from a country whose security and development are dominated by the international community to one led by its own government, RSR supports its preparations for a social safety net system. CHALLENGE After decades of instability, conflict, and natural disasters, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. Approximately 36 percent of its population is Population: chronically poor. The incidence of chronic malnutrition among Afghan children is 29.82 million (2012) one of the highest in the world: close to 60 percent of Afghan children under age 25 five are stunted (chronically malnourished), and one-third are underweight. Agri- GNI per capita, Atlas method culture is the main livelihood source for about 80 percent of Afghan households, (current $): many of which are unable to maintain their productivity during the winter months $700 (2013) (World Bank 2013a). As most international military forces withdraw by the end of 2014, insecurity and instability will likely remain high and continue to affect the RSR funding: country’s development. $200,000 Social protection in Afghanistan is fragmented. Apart from pension schemes for Partner: public sector workers, it is primarily characterized by relatively small, humanitar- UNICEF ian relief interventions, which are financed and implemented by donors and help less than 25 percent of the poor. Associated IDA projects: Afghanistan Pension Administration The country has embarked on a series of reforms as a first step in developing a and Safety Net Project ($7.5 million; sustainable approach to social protection. The government’s National Develop- World Bank Project ID P113421) ment Strategy and National Priority Programs include a Social Protection Strat- egy, and its planning and budgetary framework are increasingly pro-poor. Against Afghanistan Pension Administration this background, there is an opportunity for Afghanistan’s social protection fabric and Safety Net Support Project ($12.5 million; World Bank Project ID to be reshaped and move from humanitarian relief to a system that can help the P122642) poor better prepare for economic- and weather-related hardships and access opportunities related to the country’s economic growth. APPROACH The IDA-financed Afghanistan Pension Administration and Safety Net Project began in 2009 to improve the administration of the country’s public pension schemes and pilot a modest but robust social safety net for the most vulnerable people. The project has made steady and encouraging progress, and was restruc- tured in 2013 to enable a scale-up for reaching more vulnerable people across the country. Funds from RSR are helping the project grow efficiently by improving institutional capacity for monitoring and evaluation. Also with RSR funds, an oper- ations manual and management information system were developed. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Provides technical assistance for three fundamental building blocks of an IDA-supported safety net pilot: (1) development of an operations manual for safety nets, to be used for program scale-up; (2) capacity building for monitoring and evalu- ation, and (3) development of a management information system.   • Trained staff from the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled on monitoring and evaluation by organizing 26 workshops. Associated IDA Project: Afghanistan Pension Administration and Safety Net Project • Install key elements of a modernized safety net administration, including mechanisms for targeting and deliv- ery of benefit payments • Provide support for cash transfers to 16,000 of the country’s poorest fami- lies and close to 80,000 people • By project close in June 2016, another 10,000–12,000 families— nearly 60,000 people—are expected to benefit from cash transfers PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 CÔTE D’IVOIRE SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS WEAVING A SOCIAL SAFETY NET As Côte d’Ivoire slowly emerges from a decade of internal conflict and economic crises, RSR is helping to rally momentum for policy development on social protection. An RSR-supported policy dialogue has resulted in the preparation of a social protection strategy and the development of two IDA operations—one for safety nets and one for results-based health financing. CHALLENGE Côte d’Ivoire—once lauded as a model African nation for its prosperity and Population: 27 stability—remains fragile and divided in the wake of more than a decade of civil 19.84 million (2012) unrest and political turmoil. The conflict brought economic activity to a standstill, severely affected basic social service delivery, and led to general impoverishment GNI per capita, Atlas method among the population. The percentage of people living below the poverty line (current $): $1,380 (2013) rose a full 10 points between 2002 and 2008, accounting for 48.9 percent of the population (World Bank 2014a). RSR funding: While some progress has been made in reconciling the country, social protection $300,000 interventions are needed to help mend the torn social and economic fabric and effectively reduce poverty. Recent spending on social services has not been Partner: matched with commensurate improvements in outcomes. A systems approach UNICEF would enable the country to develop the capacity to absorb, refine, and coordi- nate the existing panoply of social protection programs. It would also build capa- Associated IDA projects: bility to respond to crises in the short term and resilience over the long term. Productive Social Safety Net (currently in pipeline, indicative funding: $50 million; World Bank Project ID P143332) APPROACH CI-Results-Based Financing Project The government is committed to taking on various reforms, including in the (currently under preparation) realm of public sector governance, and has engaged in broad consultations with stakeholders on its Poverty Reduction Strategy. In line with the government’s post-crisis and social recovery strategy, RSR is helping jump-start the delivery of basic social services through analytical work looking back at the aggregate and distributional impact on human capital of the civil war, the food, fuel, and financial crises, and the recent post-electoral crises. The diagnostic work looks at the present and the future: how well are existing crisis-response mechanisms doing, and how could programs and delivery systems improve? The second component of the RSR grant is to build the capacity of the line min- istries in the social sectors (Ministry of Education, Health, and Family, Women and Social Affairs) to help staff better undertake diagnosis, develop policies, and prioritize interventions under the Poverty Reduction Strategy. The World Bank and UNICEF are also co-chairing a donor work group to support the country’s policy dialogue on social protection. Implementation of the RSR grant has been slow, reflecting the reality of trying to bring about change in a fragile state. On the other hand, this lengthy time span has enabled ownership to take hold and local capacity to be strengthened—both of which are key ingredients in sustainability. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Established a base upon which two IDA operations will build: one on social safety nets—Productive Social Safety Net (currently in pipeline)—and one on results-based health financing—CI-Results-Based Financing Project (currently under preparation)—by providing technical support to 28 —— a social protection policy dialogue, —— diagnostic and analytical work, and —— technical advice on the development of a social protection strategy. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 INDIA SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATING AND IMPROVING SAFETY NET SYSTEMS The IDA-supported Bihar Integrated Social Protection Strengthening Project supports business process reengineering to administer key social protection programs and strengthen outreach and service delivery. RSR helps with project preparation and implementation through financing studies that will provide critical feedback on a number of aspects of Bihar’s social protection system. The impact of the IDA-related project is potentially very large, given that the number of people in poverty in the Population: State of Bihar is greater than the population of many countries. 1.24 billion (2012) 29 GNI per capita, Atlas method CHALLENGE (current $): $1,570 (2013) In Bihar, India’s third largest state, approximately 54 million of its 104 million people live below the poverty line. The effectiveness of existing social protection RSR funding: programs in Bihar is limited by inadequate coordination among institutions; lack $450,000 of awareness about programs’ existence; and challenges related to enrollment, information management, benefit payments, monitoring and evaluation, and Partner: redress of grievances. U.K. Department for International Development (DfID) APPROACH Associated IDA projects: Bihar Integrated Social Protection Although several social protection programs for the poor and vulnerable exist Strengthening Project ($84 million; in Bihar, their performance falls short of their poverty reduction potential. The World Bank Project ID P118826) largest social protection programs for the poor and vulnerable in Bihar are (1) the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project a rights-based, demand-driven public works program that guarantees all rural (JEEViKA; $63 million; World Bank Project ID P090764) households up to 100 days a year of unskilled public works employment; (2) Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), which provides cash benefits to poor rural house- Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project holds for building houses; and (3) social pensions that provide incomes to the Additional Financing ($100 million; elderly, widows, and those with disabilities. These three categories account for World Bank Project ID P130546) 74 percent of total social protection spending in Bihar, or about 3.04 percent of the state’s gross domestic product (World Bank 2013). Reforming these programs through the Bihar Integrated Social Protection Strengthening Project 30 will help lead to more effective implementation and efficient spending in social protection. RSR finances activities that will provide in-depth learning on a number of building blocks for Bihar’s social protection system as the studies (1) evaluate the application processes for existing social protection programs and systems for delivering goods and services, (2) test new monitoring processes, and (3) assess the use and impact of social protection and rural livelihoods programs. They will facilitate the design and testing of a tracking system and tools to be used to follow 300 applicants to social pension schemes to determine the time it takes to apply to the programs and identify bottlenecks faced by citizens trying to access assistance. Another study will build on this work to assess the impacts of providing various types of information and assistance to households applying for social pension programs. And RSR activities will support the creation and testing of user assessments, such as citizen report cards, to provide feedback on the quality of services provided by common service c enters. The lessons learned will be of value not only to the State of Bihar and other states in India, but also to other low-income, low-capacity countries in South Asia and beyond. Finally, RSR will help finance the Bihar Rural Income and Expenditure Survey being executed under the $163 million World Bank Bihar Rural Livelihoods Proj- ect (JEEViKA), including the design and incorporation of a social protection com- ponent. Currently, income generation is a relatively understudied topic in rural India. The government-supported National Sample Survey focuses on measuring household expenditures as the primary indicators of well-being. Introducing a way to measure income allows policy makers in Bihar to understand not only trends in well-being, but also where income comes from. The survey will pro- duce average total household annual income estimates for rural households and will be planned for three rounds over multiple years to ensure its usefulness in assessing changes over time. Results from the survey will provide information on the use of both social protection and rural livelihood programs, and how these programs interact. Future rounds will provide data that can be used to assess the impact of activities financed under the Social Protection Strengthening Project and to integrate and improve the efficiency of key social protection programs. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Developed tools to identify applicants and beneficiaries for a time-motion tracking study that will help identify transaction costs and bottlenecks in social protection program application and service/goods delivery processes. Data collection for this study began in April 2014. • Designated a representative household sample (panel) for the Bihar Rural Income and Expenditure survey roll-out in the field. The survey questionnaire was finalized and fieldwork is on track to be launched in September 2014. • Facilitated cooperation in data collection and knowledge sharing among orga- nizations in Bihar (the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Society, the Bihar Rural Develop- ment Society, and the State Society for the Ultra Poor and Social Welfare) to 31 ensure the initial round of the survey addresses their needs. Associated IDA Projects Bihar Integrated Social Protection Strengthening Project ($84 million) • Designed interventions to increase information for social protection beneficiaries on how to apply for benefits. Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (JEEViKA; $63 million) and Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project Additional Financing ($100 million) • Mobilized 809,000 households into 70,362 self-help groups and federations. Facilitated access to public insurance programs—in particular, Janashree Bima Yojana and Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana have been significantly scaled-up. • Fifty community-managed nutrition care centers have successfully established linkages with public service providers such as primary health centers and Anganwadi centers to enable enrolled members to access services. • Established system uniformity with various government departments—e.g., rural development, agriculture, animal husbandry, social welfare, labor, health, and family welfare—and leveraged both technical and financial resources as part of the livelihood and entitlement interventions. 32 PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 KYRGYZ REPUBLIC SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS MODERNIZING SOCIAL PROTECTION Just after the end of the violent conflict in the Kyrgyz Republic in 2010, RSR helped amend the eligibility rules for the country’s only cash transfer program to help the poorest families cope with loss of income and higher food and electricity prices. Today, with the program declining in coverage and popularity, RSR is providing continuous support to modernize the program and develop a social protection strategy for the country. CHALLENGE Public frustration over poverty and unemployment culminated in political upheaval and violent protests over rising energy tariffs in 2010. These protests 33 Population: gave way to ethnic violence and a resulting humanitarian crisis—which in turn 5.58 million (2012) blocked progress in many areas of human development. Child health and nutri- tion was one such casualty. Stunting, low birth weight, and vitamin and mineral GNI per capita, Atlas method deficiencies continue to be major barriers to equity and opportunity in the Kyrgyz (current $): Republic. Poverty increased in the aftermath of the 2010 events, now enveloping $1,200 (2013) 37 percent of the population (World Bank 2013d). An estimated 5 percent lives in extreme poverty and is unable to meet basic food needs. The majority of the RSR funding: poor are families with children. $690,000 The social safety net in the Kyrgyz Republic consists of an extensive array of Partners: cash benefits and allowances, both categorical and means tested. Against the Ministry of Social Development, EU, backdrop of its high operating costs and rising poverty levels, there is good UNICEF reason to improve its efficiency. Associated IDA project: The government is in the process of reforming the country’s social safety nets Second Health and Social Protection but faces several challenges in doing so. While social safety net spending has Project ($16.5 million; World Bank increased since 2009, most of the benefits are received by wealthier populations Project ID P126278) through categorically targeted programs. The only program explicitly targeted to the poor, the Monthly Benefit to Poor Families, has seen a decline in coverage in recent years. At present, the program only reaches one-third of the poorest 20 percent of the population. This low coverage is primarily due to stringent eligi- bility requirements, making qualification for benefits difficult. For example, ben- eficiaries must have an income lower than the guaranteed minimum income. In addition, fiscal constraints have led the Ministry of Social Development to tighten access to the program by adopting more restrictive filters (e.g., excluding owners of livestock) and increasing norms for imputed income from land plots. Finally, the program is losing political sup- port as some leaders argue that the country spends too much on benefits. APPROACH Following the crises of 2010, RSR extended rapid technical assistance to improve the Monthly Benefit to Poor Families through an analysis that enabled the government to amend the rules so the income threshold for eligibility was raised. The rules were also changed to allow families affected by the 2010 conflict and without birth certificates or other papers to claim benefits. A new grant from RSR provides technical assistance to the government. Under this grant, RSR is continuing to identify critical interventions to strengthen the benefit program, and to improve its credibility and public image. RSR is also helping to integrate the program into a wider systems approach through a social 34 protection strategy that focuses on modernization of key community-based social services as vehicles to protect the most vulnerable. RSR technical assistance is expected to improve program design and help it to more accurately target and improve access for a significantly larger share of the poor through evidence-based planning and monitoring of implementation. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Helped the government determine priorities for the country’s social develop- ment strategy • Helped the Ministry for Social Development make concrete decisions on the design of and amounts for the Monthly Benefit to Poor Families cash transfer program • Helped improve ministry capacity with regard to implementation, program monitoring, and targeting accuracy • Designed training plans to help social assistance workers at the local level understand and implement the new program rules • Informed the recently approved IDA Kyrgyz Second Health and Social Protec- tion Project PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 LESOTHO SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS REVIEW OF SOCIAL TRANSFER PROGRAMS FOR BETTER PROTECTION FOR THE POOR RSR supported a social safety net review and related technical assistance to help the government make more efficient use of social transfer resources. The review revealed that Lesotho’s spending on safety nets is relatively high, and its impact on poverty and inequality is limited. The review emphasized that well-targeted, cost-effective transfer programs can reduce extreme poverty without straining the budget. CHALLENGE 35 Poverty and inequality remain a problem in Lesotho, despite good economic growth in the country over the last two decades. The tiny kingdom, entirely sur- rounded by South Africa, is highly sensitive to volatile food prices, as it produces Population: very little food itself. Also, Lesotho has the world’s third highest rate of HIV/AIDS 2.05 million (2012) prevalence, which has led to low productivity and large numbers of orphaned children. GNI per capita, Atlas method (current $): The impact of the recent food, fuel, and financial crises has obliged the govern- $1,550 (2013) ment to undertake difficult fiscal consolidation to ensure financial sustainability and macroeconomic stability. The country’s conflicting needs create a thorny RSR funding: dilemma. On the one hand, there is a need to sharply reduce expenditures; on $387,123 the other, against a backdrop of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, unemployment, and a lack of opportunity, social protection systems for the poor are acutely needed. Partners: UNICEF, International Labour Several social safety net programs are already in place to address specific Organization, World Food Programme, European Union categories of vulnerability. These include a cash transfer program that supports caretakers of orphans, an old-age pension scheme, a scholarship program to provide basic education to orphans and other vulnerable groups, a public works program, and a school feeding program for all children. Poor coordination and weak poverty targeting, however, tax the government’s scarce resources. APPROACH As part of the government’s public expenditure review, RSR supported an assessment of the country’s social transfer schemes, including those within the agriculture and education sectors, and made recommendations on how to better reach out to the most vulnerable. Building on analytical work in the social protection sector undertaken by UNICEF, 36 the International Labour Organization, and the World Food Programme, the RSR initiative consisted of a poverty and vulnerability analysis, an expenditure anal- ysis, an assessment of safety net programs, and development of policy recom- mendations and implications. Additionally, the government—with support from RSR—undertook the devel- opment of a National Information System for Social Assistance (NISSA) as an important first step in consolidating and rationalizing social protection programs and their targeting mechanisms. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Social safety net review findings informed the design of the Lesotho Poverty Reduction Support Credit, as well as of a social protection strategy now being finalized. • Technical assistance provided to the NISSA resulted in a report, “Lesotho: A Safety Net to End Extreme Poverty,” summarizing recommendations for system expansion (World Bank 2013b). • The work inspired a strong open dialogue among stakeholders, which signifi- cantly aided the planning and prioritizing of social protection in Lesotho. • A follow-on RSR grant was recently approved for $250,000. It will provide technical assistance for the development of a social protection strategy and establish building blocks for an effective and responsive safety net system. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 MALI SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS INVESTING IN THE EARLY YEARS OF CHILDHOOD AND SOCIAL SAFETY NETS RSR helped inform the development of an emergency social safety net that provides 62,000 of Mali’s poorest households with monthly cash transfers of CFAF 10,000 (approximately $20) for three years as well as counseling services aimed at improving behaviors related to child care, nutrition, hygiene, and health. CHALLENGE Mali—a vast country with a large, young population—sustains some of the 37 lowest social indicators in the world. Almost one in two Malians is poor, and the Population: country has among the highest under-five and maternal mortality rates globally. 14.85 million (2012) The 2012 military crisis further aggravated the human development outlook, as it resulted in a large displacement of people and further pressure on already GNI per capita, Atlas method stressed infrastructure, health systems, and livelihoods. (current $): $670 (2013) APPROACH RSR funding: $2,214,200 In an effort to combat chronic malnutrition and improve children’s likelihood to succeed in school, the government of Mali, in collaboration with the World Bank, Partners: has established the Jigiséméjiri Tree of Hope safety net project. In the short Aga Khan Foundation, Plan Mali term, the $70 million project will facilitate access to basic essential services and conditional cash transfers for the most vulnerable of the population, especially Associated IDA project: those most affected by the recent military conflict in the north. In parallel, the Mali—Emergency Safety Nets Project project will begin to set the parameters for an effective nationwide safety net ($70 million; World Bank Project ID system, which could build social capital over the medium to long term, and be P127328) scaled-up in times of crisis. RSR helped set the direction of the new safety net system by financing an assessment of Mali’s social safety net policies and programs and development of an effective safety net strategy. The assessment was part of a regional review aimed at helping African countries ensure that new social protection schemes are effective, affordable, and anchored in policy frameworks. The review underscored the importance of improving on typically isolated, irregular, and untargeted existing programs in the face of the sweeping needs of the chronic poor and limited financial resources. It also made the case for new, well-targeted, and cost-effective programs such as targeted cash transfers. The assessment also took stock of lessons learned from an RSR-supported Early Childhood Development Pilot. The pilot was instrumental in devising the design of parental education activities—an integral part of the conditional cash transfer component of the IDA project. Aimed at children aged 3–6, their mothers, and the communities in which they live, the pilot improved public knowledge of the impor- tance of stimulation and nutrition in a child’s early years. The pilot—which consisted of two components: Integrated Early Childhood Health, Nutrition and Education Services in Rural Areas, and Capacity-Building to Support a National Program—was developed in the Mopti and Segou regions, where it was implemented, respectively, by the Aga Khan Foundation and 38 Plan Mali. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS  arried out a feasibility study for a cash • C transfer program, which informed the design of the IDA Jigiséméjiri program.  orking through nongovernmental orga- • W nizations, RSR tested the effectiveness of various affordable, feasible, and sustainable approaches to prevent deterioration of young children’s development outcomes. • The number of children (aged 3–6) with access to early childhood develop- ment services in the two regions where the pilot was implemented totaled 4,250 compared to an initial target of 4,000. The number of parents who attended parental education training reached 3,264, and 25 early childhood development centers benefited from renovations. • Helped strengthen national capacity at the central and local levels to design, manage, monitor, and evaluate early childhood activities. • Helped prepare for the IDA Emergency Safety Nets Project. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 NICARAGUA SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR A NEW GENERATION OF SOCIAL PROTECTION RSR strengthened the roll-out of the country’s new family and community-based welfare model by supporting some essential operational and technical ingredients. CHALLENGE Over the past decade, Nicaragua has experienced steady, though moderate, economic growth, contributing to small advances in education and health. There has been little progress, however, in reducing poverty. Nicaragua continues to 39 be one of the poorest countries in Latin America: 46.2 percent of the population is poor, and 15 percent lives in extreme poverty. An estimated 300,000 families with children live in extreme poverty. About a third of these families have at least Population: one primary school–age child who is working and/or not going to school (World 5.992 billion (2012) Bank 2010). GNI per capita, Atlas method With a pro-poor agenda, the government of Nicaragua is focused on reducing (current $): inequality. Initial efforts have been directed at increasing the supply of services $1,780 (2013) to the poor. But even with better access, there are major gaps in poor families’ actual use of social services, particularly in rural areas. RSR funding: $2,548,570 APPROACH Associated IDA project: Nicaragua Social Protection Project Based on the country’s experience in implementing a range of social safety nets ($19.5 million; World Bank Project ID directed to families, the Ministry of Family, Youth and Children adopted an inte- P121779) grated strategy and standard model for family- and community-based social wel- fare to improve the well-being of extremely poor families. The model (Modelo de atención integral familiar y comunitaria para el bienestar social) targets extremely poor families with children under the age of 13, and provides them with a series of workshops on topics such as early childhood development, nutrition, domestic violence, legal rights, and the labor market, while encouraging and monitoring children’s school attendance. About 15 percent of all Nicaraguan families are expected to benefit from the community-based social welfare model. A cash transfer component was added with IDA support and is currently being piloted with 20,000 families in six departments. Unlike typical conditional cash transfer programs, payment is conditional on participation in the workshops rather than on school attendance or periodic health checkups and vaccinations. RSR resources were used to improve essential building blocks of the program such as training, the development of a management information system, a regis- try of beneficiaries, and a survey of households that will be used as a baseline for future evaluation of the IDA project. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Trained ministry staff and social counselor volunteers in communities to sup- port model implementation at the national and subnational levels. —— Supported the training of 4,080 community volunteers to promote and conduct family workshops as social counselors, as well as of 81 ministry staff members responsible for monitoring family workshops and related activities. —— Held 24 workshops on the model at different jurisdictional levels (munici- pal, departmental, national) for approximately 1,810 participants from the national social welfare system. 40 • Financed the purchase of basic equipment and goods to develop the man- agement information system and the unified registry of beneficiaries, as well as funded acquisition of expertise for developing the system, including two consultants with experience in creating a similar system in Chile. • Financed the implementation of a 121,725-household survey to identify poten- tial program beneficiaries in selected localities. Given the high quality of the information collected, the database has facilitated the ranking of communities by geographic targeting criteria and identification of risk levels for each family, thereby facilitating an informed, objective selection of the 20,000 families in six departments who will receive cash transfers under the IDA project. Associated IDA Project: Nicaragua Social Protection • Improves the basic welfare conditions and social well-being of 20,000 beneficiary families with children in selected extreme poor localities • Strengthens the ministry’s capacity to implement the family and com- munity-based social welfare model • Promotes preschool and primary school attendance through the provi- sion of school lunches PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 SENEGAL SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONS: CORNERSTONES OF A NEW SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM A small grant from RSR helped the government distill lessons from practice and develop a unique solution for a social protection system for Senegal. The grant contributed to the establishment of a social protection focal point within the office of the president, ensuring high visibility for the safety net agenda. CHALLENGE Population: 41 13.73 million (2012) A series of shocks have affected Senegal over the last decade, including poor rains, global food and fuel price shocks in 2008, and floods in 2009. Coupled GNI per capita, Atlas method with rising inequality and slow growth, a significant percentage of households (current $): remains vulnerable. The rate of poverty in Senegal is still high, especially for a $1,070 (2013) country that has just achieved lower-middle-income status. The latest poverty estimates, based on a household survey conducted in 2011, show the incidence RSR funding: of poverty at 46.7 percent of the population (World Bank 2013e). $520,000 The existing safety net programs are spread across a number of ministries and Partner: agencies, most of them small in scale and designed as short-term emergency UNICEF relief financed by donors. Instead, the government has mainly used general subsidies to address vulnerabilities, but this proved to be expensive. Moreover, a Associated IDA projects: significant part of benefits went to the nonpoor. Senegal Safety Net Operation ($40.5 million; World Bank Project ID P133597) APPROACH Senegal Health and Social Financing The Senegalese government is making a renewed effort to meet the needs ($20 million; World Bank Project ID of the poor through the development of a national social safety net system, P129472) consisting of two programs: a social security program (Programme de bourse se sécurité familial), the umbrella for all cash transfer programs in the country; and a universal health insurance scheme. The two programs will form a system that can help the country move from scattered safety net policies to more harmo- nized and consolidated interventions. As the large-scale pro- grams are being launched, the World Bank is support- ing the government with two IDA operations, one on social protection and one on health. RSR was instrumental in preparing for those investments through a safety net assessment. A new RSR grant, approved in 2013, continues to help build up the system by creating a single registry of beneficiaries; this will ensure that each program can cross-check beneficiary information against other data sources, using a manage- ment information system also under development with RSR support. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Supported a safety net assessment and several technical reports that helped the country prepare two IDA investments: the Senegal Safety Net Operation ($40.5 million) and Senegal Health and Social Financing ($20 million) • Sparked a dialogue on social protection that contributed indirectly to the establishment of an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Social Protection and the 42 General Delegation for Social Protection and National Solidarity to provide a high-profile focal point in the president’s office PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 SIERRA LEONE SUPPORT TO NEW AND IMPROVED SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOR SYSTEMS CONSOLIDATING SOCIAL PROTECTION RSR is helping Sierra Leone build up its social protection from the ground up. One RSR grant provided the necessary technical inputs and enabled the development of an IDA operation. And a newly approved RSR grant will support the government in establishing a shared targeting system. CHALLENGE Sierra Leone is at peace and its economy is growing, but the country remains scarred by war and plagued by a “resource curse” associated with mineral wealth and poor governance. The country is still among the poorest in the world, ranking 177 out of 186 on the 2012 Human Development Index. Average life 43 Population: expectancy is 48 years, the under-five mortality rate is 174 per 1,000 live births, 5.98 million (2012) and the maternal mortality ratio is 890 per 100,000 live births. Sierra Leone’s civil war shattered the formal and informal support systems for GNI per capita, Atlas method (current $): the poor. Since the end of the conflict, the government, international nongovern- $680 (2013) mental organizations, and donor organizations have continuously tried to address the population’s most urgent needs, but the programs have typically been small, RSR funding: fragmented, poorly targeted, and expensive to operate. As the situation wors- $600,000 ened during the 2008–11 food, fuel, and financial crises, the government sought to protect the population from price hikes by introducing price controls and fuel Partner: subsidies at a very high fiscal cost. UNICEF Associated IDA project: APPROACH Sierra Leone Safety Nets Project ($7 million; World Bank Project ID The government is looking to build a well-targeted and effective social protection P143588) system that could help households graduate from poverty through multiyear pre- dictable transfers, and that can be scaled-up to tackle future food price shocks. The government has included a pillar for social protection in its 2013 Agenda for Prosperity Program for all citizens with a special focus on women, children, the elderly, vulnerable youth, the poor, and people with disabilities. In 2011, the cabinet approved a social protection strategy that prioritizes inter- ventions to achieve maximum impact with limited resources. RSR helped formulate recommendations for the strategy, including improving the efficiency and relevance of existing safety nets. Significantly, RSR helped make the case for a systematic approach to social safety nets and enabled the development of an IDA operation, the Sierra Leone Safety Nets Project. The first crucial building block for such a system is a common targeting mecha- nism the government can use on its path toward inclusive growth. The targeting of social protection interventions is especially important in light of the expected boom in revenues from extractive resources in Sierra Leone, as it could act as a tool to highlight and reduce geographical and social disparities. Since the proposed common targeting mechanism and accompanying registry are highly technical, a new RSR operation, approved in November 2013, will provide techni- cal assistance to the Sierra Leone government as it establishes these products. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • Funded a diagnostic that served as an advisory tool for the government in making decisions about social protection options. The diagnostic synthesized existing sources of information on poverty, vulnerabilities, and shocks and provided a description of the characteristics of the most disadvantaged popu- lations. • Conducted a review of the performance of the major safety net interventions 44 in Sierra Leone. The review highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of existing interventions, analyzed their cost-effectiveness, main design issues, targeting, coverage and methods of delivery, and funding source. It also pro- vided comparisons to countries with similar characteristics. • Building on the poverty and vulnerability diagnostic and the review of existing safety nets, developed recommendations and proposed policy options to improve the effectiveness, relevance, and financial viability of the safety nets system, as well as suggestions for new programs and improvements in mon- itoring. A particular focus was to transform the current ad hoc, crisis-driven approach into a programmatic approach. The recommendations for new and modified safety net programs formed the basis for a new IDA project. Associated IDA Project: Sierra Leone Safety Nets Project • Targets approximately 22,000 extremely poor households in the poorest district in each of the country’s four regions with cash transfers • Benefits approximately 120,000 household members, including young children and pregnant and lactating mothers • Enhances the benefits of existing social services and improves capacity and coordination between line ministries, institutions, and civil society THEME 2: Increased Learning and Knowledge Sharing for Social Protection Service Delivery CLIENT REGISTRY SURVEY (CAPI): Increasing the Efficiency of Social Protection Data Collection and Management RSR AND SOUTH-SOUTH LEARNING PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 CLIENT REGISTRY SURVEY (CAPI) INCREASED LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICE DELIVERY INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOCIAL PROTECTION DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT With RSR support, the World Bank is developing a software platform for a management information system that can be used to collect, process, and manage data for social protection programs. The Bank makes the software available free of charge to all governments and nonprofit organizations. CHALLENGE 47 Many countries with social protection programs have or develop a social protec- tion beneficiary registry system to enable better targeting, tracking, and service delivery. However, many of these are outdated or have designs that do not accommodate continuing program evolution; others are divorced from the sector and institutional structures and users they are supposed to serve. The develop- ment of new systems can be very expensive, complicated by proprietary issues RSR funding: or corruption in procurement processes, and often take so long that they are $350,000 obsolete by the time they are ready. Partners: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, APPROACH Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The World Bank is developing a series of user-friendly software that will allow for the efficient collection, processing, and management of social protection program data while requiring minimal technical design and support from gov- ernments. There are numerous advantages in the Bank’s undertaking of this initiative, including (1) a reduction in government spending on these tasks, (2) client access to software that is developed and updated based on common practices, and (3) increased system continuity and sustainability. The increased standardization across countries of the data formats and processing procedures used will facilitate more internationally comparable reporting on social protection programs—and thus better and easier analysis. The first software the Bank made available helps governments capture infor- mation needed for their social protection beneficiary registry systems through the use of mobile devices. The software, called Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), allows governments to custom design surveys that, while conducted in the field, organize data that can be readily fed into a beneficiary registry for social protection programs. Because the data gathered are recorded directly on mobile devices, they can be processed immediately for analysis. CAPI has many advantages, and it is being piloted in several countries. The soft- ware is flexible and easy to use, but is powerful enough to accommodate diverse requirements across countries. It can be adapted for use in many types of sur- veys—e.g., on living standards, health, environment, or agriculture. And the use of mobile devices can help reduce fraud because on-board tools like time stamp, camera, and global positioning system (GPS), as well as attachable devices like a fingerprint scanner, become easily accessible. Although originally designed to improve social protection systems where sector-appropriate tools exist that can be connected to the mobile device, CAPI can collect and process different types of technical data useful in project management, such as the size or location of agricultural plots, the weight of babies, or environmental quality. To learn more about CAPI, go to http://go.worldbank.org/CALISV6BF0. Once governments have used CAPI to build a client registry system, the next step in building a strong social protection management information system is linking this information to other existing government systems to enable the verification of data collected and facilitate efficient distribution of benefits. The software that 48 creates these linkages is currently being piloted in the Middle East and North Africa region. Pilot results will become available by the last quarter of 2014. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RE SULTS • CAPI was successfully piloted in a Labor Force Survey in St. Lucia in March 2013. • CAPI was successfully piloted in the monitoring and evaluation of a social safety net program in Djibouti in May/June 2013 and February 2014. Infor- mation was collected via tablet and synchronized with a survey management system running on a cloud server, making data available immediately for use both locally and internationally. This pilot was the first time CAPI was used in a non-English-speaking environment. • CAPI was used to collect data in Morocco, Nigeria, Togo, Tunisia, and Uganda. • CAPI was launched publicly in September 2014. Performance improvements are continually being made to the software and new features periodically added. Updates are posted on the web, and manuals can be downloaded. • Software linking CAPI with local data servers in various government agencies is currently being piloted in Lebanon. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 SOUTH-SOUTH LEARNING INCREASED LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICE DELIVERY RSR AND SOUTH-SOUTH LEARNING In March 2014, RSR sponsored a South-South learning event in Brazil. More than 230 policy makers and practitioners from 70 countries, including ministers and vice ministers, met to learn from each other about practical solutions for implementation challenges and how to design systems that will successfully deliver social protection services. CHALLENGE Many countries spend a substantial share of their gross domestic product (GDP) on SPL programs with the objective of protecting the poor, building resilience for the vulnerable, promoting equity, and providing opportunities for enhanced pro- 49 ductivity. However, many of these programs in the developing world are highly fragmented and uncoordinated—resulting in inefficiencies; low program cover- age, particularly among poor and vulnerable people; inclusion of the nonpoor; inflexibility in responding to shocks; and poor linkages with jobs and productive opportunities. To overcome these challenges, governments are increasingly focusing on system approaches that allow policies, programs, and delivery instruments to work together in a more coherent and cost-effective way. RSR funding: $450,000 APPROACH The South-South Learning Forum on Social Protection and Labor this year was organized by the World Bank, in partnership with the federal government of Brazil, the state and municipal governments of Rio de Janeiro, and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). The forum provided a platform for policy makers to share their experiences to improve the design and delivery of SPL systems at the policy, program, and service delivery levels. This particular forum put special emphasis on building effective delivery systems, and the ability to enhance existing enrollment and transaction processes. An additional focus was on using information systems to help organize and communicate key indicators for effective and efficient program administration. Real-world experiences were shared through country case presentations, inter- active sessions, field trips, and dedicated group work. Topics included how to Participant Voices “I was able to learn about Brazil’s rich experience in developing Bolsa Família which I can capitalize on when developing similar programs. I wanted to see first hand through field trips to improve our knowledge of payment systems.” “If I can mention one thing I think all participants agree on—that is that a single registry is one of the most important instruments in building social protection systems.” “One thing we realized by coming down here is that each country’s system can always be better. There is always room for improvement.” “We have exchanged information that can really help us and others in building more useful programs for our population.” “I’m delighted to hear about different strategies being implemented by dif- ferent countries in similar situations. I am eager to have continued discus- sions on how some of these strategies can be adopted in my country.” 50 build robust identification systems; how to determine eligibility and register ben- eficiaries; how to provide convenient payment and financial services to the poor; how to build effective infor- mation systems and benefit delivery S H A R I N G B R A Z I L’ S I N N O VAT I O N systems; and how to link safety nets, WITH THE WORLD human capital, and health insurance. All of these were presented in a Its inclusive development policies and mature flagship cash sequence and manner designed to transfer program Bolsa Família makes Brazil an international ref- facilitate the best pedagogical learn- erence on policies to overcome poverty—and therefore a fitting ing experience for participants. host for the event. As part of the forum, participants visited a local municipality office in the slums of Rio de Janeiro to observe Participants also attended special Bolsa Família first hand. They met with poor families that came sessions to interact and build a to the center to receive social assistance and have their data network of practitioners that will con- entered into Bolsa Família’s Cadastro Unico (unified registry), tinue discussions and collaboration which presently contains over 50 million beneficiary records. beyond the forum. Regional social protection communities of practice The implementation of Bolsa Família has generated a wealth now operate in Africa, Europe and of lessons and knowledge on social protection and poverty Central Asia, Latin America and the reduction that is shared among policy makers and practitioners Caribbean, and the Middle East and around the world. A new initiative, A World Without Poverty, North Africa. The Africa community was launched at the conclusion of the forum to help facilitate of practice was created in 2011 with and systematize such sharing and learning. RSR support. THEME 3: Protecting Access to Basic Services to the Most Vulnerable in Times of Crisis NUTRITION IN AFRICA BENIN AND MALAWI: Enhancing Institutional Capacity to Design, Implement, and Monitor Nutrition Security Programs ETHIOPIA: Strengthening the Early Warning System THE GAMBIA: Rapid Response Nutrition Security Improvement Project MADAGASCAR: Assessing Negative Effects of the Political Crisis and Protecting Access to Essential Health and Nutrition Services RWANDA AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Operations and Capacity Development for Nutrition DJIBOUTI: Employment for the Poor Project Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Multisector Actions to Achieve Nutrition Results PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 NUTRITION IN AFRICA PROTECTING ACCESS TO BASIC SERVICES TO THE MOST VULNERABLE IN TIMES OF CRISIS RSR AND NUTRITION IN AFRICA In the wake of the food, fuel, and financial crises, rapidly deployed funds from RSR helped many African countries build their institutional capacity to address malnutrition and give relevant interventions the position and budget they deserve in poverty reduction strategies and agendas. Through its core business of helping establish social safety net systems, RSR also supported interventions in which social protection and nutrition worked together to reduce vulnerabilities. CHALLENGE The impact of the food, fuel, and financial crises and repeated droughts on 53 the Horn of Africa provided hard-earned lessons for many African countries as to the importance of building resilience against food insecurity and malnu- trition. Most countries were unprepared for the toll the crises would take on young children and their mothers, and lacked the institutional capacity to act in time. In 2011, the growth of an estimated 55.8 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa—about 40 percent of the population under the age of five—was stunted (UNICEF-WHO-World Bank 2014), causing irreversible damage to human and social capital and unraveling progress made toward achieving the Millennium RSR funding: Development Goals. Total $7.3 billion for 7 projects APPROACH The recent situation in Africa highlighted the need to build resilience to food crises and to expand beyond traditional delivery channels for nutrition by explor- ing how nutrition-sensitive interventions can be implemented by other sectors including social protection, education, agriculture, and health. Such interven- tions range from direct actions such as the distribution of vitamin A capsules to addressing the underlying determinants of malnutrition—e.g., through improved agricultural practices adapted to climate change, improved access to clean water, education for girls, and better access to health services and social protection programs. Social protection can support food security and the ability to address malnutrition in a variety of ways, particularly by reducing vulnerabilities. Typically, the beneficiaries of cash transfers and public works are linked to nutrition interventions, with nutrition support delivered either as part of in-kind transfers or as beneficiary training. Social protection can also serve as an umbrella framework when building government capacity to implement stronger and more interconnected systems capable of strengthening access to and demand for quality basic and welfare ser- vices for the poorest from childhood on. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND RESULTS • In Djibouti, RSR supported nutrition-sensitive social protection through an IDA-financed workfare program. The program provides short-term employ- ment opportunities for women and men in community-based services jointly with a nutrition program. This relatively new concept makes use of com- munity-driven behavioral change communication to ensure that the income 54 a person earns from the public works program benefits the whole family’s nutritional needs. • An RSR grant to the Gambia supported the National Nutrition Agency with a framework for monitoring and evaluation and a communications strategy that has since been rolled out in all regions. The regional health teams have sub- sequently scaled-up the promotion of healthy behaviors for maternal nutrition and child growth; also, access to therapeutic feeding and nutrition services has been improved. The work funded by RSR has informed two IDA operations currently under preparation: the Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health Results Project and the Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project. • Ethiopia, a country that has seen recurring seasonal shocks result in famine for decades, is developing a system to predict looming food crises. In support of a $30 million IDA project, RSR helped Ethiopia’s regional health bureaus improve data collection and quality to better track malnutrition in the wake of seasonal shocks. Early warning information is now flowing from villages to regional administrators and line ministries, enabling a more united and timely response. • In Rwanda, RSR supported a capacity assessment to scale up nutrition actions under the Community Health Workers Program. The assessment pro- vided other donors with the opportunity to develop the tools for community health workers to better communicate with families and provide advice on nutrition practices with a particular focus on women and children. • In the Democratic Republic of Congo, RSR supported a landscape study of existing policies and a nutrition survey in a pilot district. The IDA-supported Congolese Health Sector Rehabilitation Support Project used the RSR analytic work as a basis for implementation. Despite the multiple crises and insecurity afflicting the country, the continuing dialogue and advocacy precipitated by the RSR analytical products led to gradual recognition of the importance of nutrition to the country’s growth. The Congolese government has since joined the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, thereby committing to ensure that all government programs are conscious of nutrition and to increasing coverage of interventions that improve nutrition during the 1,000-day period between a mother’s pregnancy and her child’s second birthday. • Following the food crisis and severe flooding in 2010, the government of Benin put into practice a roadmap of institutional reform to give the country’s nutrition response a higher priority. To this end, it created a Food Fortification Commission and the National Council for Food and Nutrition, and elaborated a broad and strategic framework under which these entities operate. RSR provided technical support to establish the council; this assistance was used to set up a donor coordination platform and to recruit a permanent secretary. The technical assistance provided through RSR lev- eraged a $28 million IDA operation: the Multisectoral Food Health Nutrition Project. As part of a growing commitment to ensuring food and nutrition security by their governments, Benin and Rwanda joined the SUN Movement in the fall of 2011. • Like Benin, Malawi has endured tough conse- 55 quences from exogenous shocks and has an equally strong commitment to combating malnutrition and food insecurity. Technical support from RSR informed a $30 million IDA operation—the Malawi Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Project—and leveraged another $13.5 million from the Canadian International Development Agency. Specifically, RSR provided an organizational assessment of, and subsequent targeted capacity-building assistance to, the Depart- ment of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS. The department is now able to play a consequential role in policy dialogue and nutrition response. • Building up an evidence base was important in Mad- agascar, which was badly affected by the economic instability wreaked by the food, fuel, and financial crises, and the natural disaster and political crises that followed. The effects on Madagascar’s eco- nomic and social outcomes continue to be severe, with more than 92 percent of the population living on less than $2 a day. In some areas, acute child malnutrition has increased by more than 50 percent and child mortality by 30 percent. RSR supported two pivotal surveys to assess the impact of the crisis on children under age five and on pregnant and lactating women. The data from the health and nutrition study fed into the Emergency Support to Critical Education, Health and Nutrition Services Project, a $65 million IDA effort that will benefit approximately 2 million people by 2016. The RSR health and nutrition grant also leveraged resources for technical assistance from UNICEF to implement a household survey. • As back support to the many nutrition interventions in Africa and elsewhere, RSR has fostered the development of global knowledge around nutrition. In 2010, it produced a toolkit, Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Multisector Actions to Achieve Nutrition Results, as a means of capitalizing on the momentum growing out of the food, fuel, and financial crises in acknowledg- ing the role of nutrition in the alleviation of poverty. 56 RSR Project Portfolio and Associated IDA Projects: March 2010–March 2014 THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM RSR Project Portfolio a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS AFRICA Benin: Building a Common National Targeting and 275,000 August Active Registry System for Cash Transfers, Public Works, 2013– and Other Safety Net Interventions. Supports the June 2015 government of Benin in developing a national benefi- ciary targeting and registry system that can be used across multiple social protection and health programs Burkina Faso: Strengthening Safety Net Response to 500,000 April Active Crises. Supports the development and implementa- 2010– tion of a cash transfer program and a feasibility study June 2015 of a public works program to support the poor and vulnerable Burundi: Supporting Evolution toward a Coordinated 400,000 August Active Social Protection System. Assists a gradual move 2014– from fragmented social protection programs to a August coordinated system through feasibility assessments, 2015 support to program implementation, and South- South learning Cameroon: Strengthening Safety Net Response to 550,000 March Closed Crises. Supported an inventory and analysis of the 2010– country’s social safety nets, and piloted a cash trans- December fer program 2013 58 Cameroon: Support to Building Productive Safety 350,000 April Active Nets. Supports the development of a productive 2014– social protection system in Cameroon including November SYSTEMS strengthening the design of safety net programs and 2015 including approaches to linking program beneficiaries to the labor market and to productive activities Congo–Brazaville: LISUNGI–Safety Nets System. 350,000 January Active Supports building blocks of a consolidated national 2014– safety nets system and an impact evaluation of the November LISUNGI cash transfer pilot program 2015 Cash Transfers: Design for Scaling Up in Sub-Saharan 391,874 May 2012– Closed Africa. Provided technical assistance to improve and June 2013 scale-up existing cash transfer programs in Angola, Benin, Lesotho, Mali, Tanzania, and Zambia Côte d’Ivoire: Assessing the Impact of Crises on 300,000 November Closed Human Capital and Laying the Foundations for an 2011– Effective Social Safety Net System. Provided tech- December nical assistance to investigating the aggregate and 2013 distributional impact of recent crises on the country´s human capital, and made specific policy recommen- dations to better respond to future crises Democratic Republic of Congo: Support to Establish- 350,000 April Active ing a National Social Protection System. Strengthens 2014– the framework for social protection and the establish- November ment of a national social protection system though 2015 capacity building of social protection actors and mapping of SPL interventions PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Ghana: Building a Common Targeting Registry for 450,000 February Active Ghana’s Social Protection System. Building on pre- 2014– vious support from RSR, this grant supports the gov- November ernment of Ghana in establishing a national common 2015 targeting system to scale up Ghana’s main safety net program (Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty— LEAP) and the National Health Insurance Scheme Ghana: Cash-Transfers Designed and Brought to 181,322 April Closed Scale. Helped to upgrade the design of the country’s 2010– cash transfer programs with a view to develop a com- June 2012 mon targeting mechanism for all safety net programs in the country Guinea: Strengthening Social Safety Nets in Times 400,000 July 2011– Closed of Crises. Provided technical assistance, including a September feasibility study and capacity building to help create 2014 a safety net system that can respond effectively to crises Kenya: Developing and Strengthening the Kenya 415,250 August Active Social Protection System. Helps the government 2013– enhance the single registry for social protection, May 2015 develop common program targeting mechanisms, and design program graduation mechanisms Kenya: Social Protection Interventions. Supported 144,891 March Closed the government of Kenya in its effort to bring about 2010– SYSTEMS a systemic change of the social protection system, December 59 and deliver more tangible and sustainable results for 2012 vulnerable people Kenya: Support to the Government for Social Pro- 1,147,8537 July 2010– Closed tection Programming. Supported the government September in strengthening its response to the recent crisis 2013 through increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of ongoing social protection interventions Kenya: Support to the Internship Program of the 585,000 September– Closed Kenya Private Sector Alliance. Supported the IDA December Youth Empowerment Project in its efforts to increase 2012 access to youth-targeted temporary employment pro- grams and to improve youth employability Lesotho: Developing the Strategy and Building 250,000 May 2014– Active Blocks for a Social Protection System. Supports the November government in developing a social protection strategy 2015 and laying some of the fundamental building blocks of a social protection system, such as targeting, bene- ficiary registry, and coordination among programs Lesotho: Social Safety Net Review. Improved the 137,123 November Closed existing safety net to better protect the poor and 2011– vulnerable under crisis by analyzing the efficiency of May 2013 current social safety net programs in reaching out to the most vulnerable, and developing policy reform options and guidance THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Liberia: Development of a Crisis Response Social 288,275 November Closed Protection Strategy and Capacity. Funded a Social 2010– Protection Diagnostic Report, which was a critical March first step in the development of a coordinated and 2012 comprehensive social protection strategy that forms an integrated part of the human development pillar of the country’s poverty reduction strategy Liberia: Improving Employment of Vulnerable Youth. 239,566 November Closed Provided an analysis and technical assistance to 2011– the government on how to prioritize and sequence June 2013 employment programs targeting vulnerable youth Madagascar: Developing Madagascar’s Safety Net 441,000 February Active System. Helps to advance the social protection 2014– policy dialogue and develop innovative safety net November approaches to address the needs of the poorest pop- 2015 ulation Mauritania: Improving Safety Nets Programs. Helps 150,000 September Active the government improve targeting, prepare a single 2013– registry for safety nets programs, and develop a feasi- June 2015 bility assessment for a national cash transfer Mozambique: Developing the Building Blocks for 1,554,074 March Closed Effective Crisis Response. Supported the develop- 2012– ment of labor-intensive public works in 10 arid and December semi-arid rural and 2 urban areas to address the 2012 SYSTEMS country-specific dynamics of poverty and improve 60 food insecurity; helped set the direction of the new national public works program by developing and testing criteria for selecting beneficiaries, determining the level of transfers, and ascertaining the types of eligible public works Mozambique: Building Gender-Sensitive Social 1,000,000 Pipeline Active Protection and Labor Systems through Soft Public Works. Supports and expands the emerging social protection system by piloting a gender-sensitive, inclusive safety nets mechanism that provides tem- porary income support to extremely poor individuals, mainly women, while delivering social and commu- nity services to vulnerable groups in underserved rural and urban areas Nigeria: Strengthening Social Safety Net. Provided 399,686 July 2011– Closed technical assistance to improve the design of the December IDA-supported Social Safety Net program 2012 Regional: Support to Coherent Pension Policy and 310,000 January Active Improved Pension Delivery in Africa. Provides policy 2014– makers with the information and international expe- November rience required to formulate more equitable old age 2015 income security policies as well as with tools to allow program administrators to improve delivery of pen- sions PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Social Protection and Labor Systems in Rwanda: 550,000 Pipeline Active Operationalizing the Vision. Supports the govern- ment of Rwanda to improve effectiveness of its social protection system by moving from a focus on policy formulation to the design and implementation of key service delivery systems Rwanda: Technical Assistance for Stronger Social 2,124,000 April Closed Safety Nets. Provided technical assistance to improve 2010– existing social protection programs’ ability to protect December vulnerable households in times of crisis, and boosted 2013 the programs’ capacity to scale-up interventions and absorb more funds when the need arises São Tomé and Príncipe: Building Blocks for Social 325,000 April Active Protection System. Creates the basic blocks for a 2014– social protection system by enhancing the govern- November ment’s understanding of vulnerability and risk vis-à- 2015 vis the existing supply of safety net interventions, and developing key operational tools to reach the poorest with selected safety net programs Senegal: Developing a Unified and Effective Safety 291,306 September Active Net. Supports the development of a comprehensive 2010– and efficient social protection system including a June 2014 unified set of design parameters such as targeting mechanisms, a registry system, payment methods, and a management information system SYSTEMS 61 Senegal: Developing Senegal Safety Net System. 300,000 December Active Supports the design of a responsive safety net sys- 2013– tem in connection with the government’s launch of June 2015 the Food Security Program (Programme de bourse de sécurité alimentaire) Sierra Leone: Developing Sierra Leone’s Social Pro- 300,000 January Active tection System through Common Targeting Mech- 2014– anisms. Supports the establishment of a common November targeting system, a critical step in the consolidation 2015 of the country’s social programs into a robust social protection system Sierra Leone: Social Safety Net Support. Provided 299,985 July 2011– Closed a diagnostic of sources of poverty and vulnerability June 2013 and made recommendations to improve the design, effectiveness, and sustainability of the major safety net interventions, with a view to move from an ad hoc emergency focus to a longer-term programmatic focus on national systems Social Protection Design and Implementation in 95,827 April Closed Sub-Saharan Africa. Supported the development 2010– of cash transfer programs; depending on the coun- April 2012 try situation, areas for support included design for scaling up, specifics of targeting, design of enrollment and identification of beneficiaries, payment systems, control and accountability mechanisms, monitoring system, and management information systems THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Tanzania: Enhancing Crisis Response for the Most 626,136 July 2011– Closed Vulnerable Children and Elderly Poor. Worked to September improve household practices and engender sustain- 2012 ability of livelihoods of the current Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfer beneficiaries; following some implementation issues, part of the grant was canceled Tanzania: A Systems-Based Approach for Operation- 410,000 April Active alizing the Tanzania Productive Social Safety Net. 2014– Develops a strategy for using information and com- November munication technology for expanded outreach and 2015 greater impact as well as enhancing key operational tools including the management information system, the single registry of beneficiaries, and the formal payment system Togo: Promoting Innovative Crisis-Response Social 283,806 November Closed Protection. Financed a rigorous impact evaluation of 2010– the new public works project and provided technical September assistance to the government in implementing and 2012 monitoring the national social protection strategy Togo: Support to Social Safety Net Development. 220,000 November Closed Helped the country move toward an integrated 2011– national system for social protection by providing December technical assistance to the development of a cash 2013 transfer program and improving the design of exist- 62 ing programs SYSTEMS Uganda Social Protection Sector Review. Supports 258,800 December Active the development of a social protection system through 2013– an analysis of poverty, risk, and vulnerability as well December as a detailed analysis of existing social safety pro- 2014 grams Youth Employment in Africa: The Skill Develop- 93,719 March Closed ment-Labor Demand Conundrum. Identified and 2010– analyzed programs that improve employability and April 2012 earnings among youth and reduce their vulnerability and risky behavior—knowledge that improves the design of labor-market interventions Zambia: Development of Integrated Management 1,400,000 December Active Information System and Single Registry of Benefi- 2013– ciaries. Supports the government in strengthening December its social protection system by developing a policy 2015 framework and building management information systems and a single registry to allow robust identifi- cation of beneficiaries Zimbabwe Productive Safety Net: Pilot Public Works 1,084,868 March Closed Project. Helped the government of Zimbabwe to 2011– improve its national public works program to bolster February the resilience of vulnerable families and communities 2013 Zimbabwe: Revival of Social Protection System. 250,000 February Active Assists the government in the development of a social 2014– protection strategy and creation of a harmonized June 2015 targeting system and beneficiary registry for the main social safety net programs in the country PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Cash Transfers and Conditional Cash Transfers in 449,805 June 2011– Closed Sub-Saharan Africa: A Community of Practitioners. June 2013 This community of practice brought together offi- cials and practitioners from Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Niger to exchange experiences, resources, and learning on conditional cash transfers Community of Practice of Cash Transfers and Con- 450,000 August Active ditional Cash Transfers to Support Countries in the 2013– Consolidation of Social Protection and Labor Sys- June 2015 tems. Supports participating countries in their process of launching or scaling-up unconditional and condi- tional cash transfer programs as a core pillar in the consolidation of SPL systems Experience of Cash-for-Work in Liberia and Togo. This 88,699 April Closed KNOWLEDGE activity built on the experience of the Liberia Cash for 2010– Work Project and assisted Togo’s government in iden- February tifying key issues and success factors for a new public 2012 works intervention Informal Safety Nets in Eastern and Southern Africa. 118,116 February Closed Supported the preparation of three case studies in 2010– Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Côte d’Ivoire to elucidate the April 2012 interplay between formal and informal safety nets Social Safety Nets System: Administrative Toolkit 450,000 October Active Development and Regional Workshop. Supports the 2014– improvement of SPL systems through the develop- June 2015 63 ment and application of: (1) tools for measuring and evaluating current systems, (2) SPL-specific question- naires to improve household survey indicators, and (3) sharing knowledge within the region Benin and Malawi: Enhancing Institutional Capacity 385,000 July 2011– Closed to Design, Implement, and Monitor Nutrition Secu- June 2013 rity Programs. Worked to enhance the two countries’ ability to respond to—and mitigate—the nutritional impact of economic and climate-related shocks Ethiopia: Strengthening the Early Warning Sys- 1,020,144 January Closed tem. Provided technical support to the development 2011– and implementation of an early warning system for December malnutrition; the project complemented the IDA-sup- 2013 ported Nutrition Project BENEFITS The Gambia: Rapid Response Nutrition Security 3,150,623 January Closed Improvement Project. Strengthened the capacity of 2011– the National Nutrition Agency to develop a communi- July 2013 ty-driven approach to nutrition, and provided tech- nical assistance to the development of an updated nutrition policy and strategic plan for implementation Lesotho: Estimating the Impact of Economic Crises 229,442 April Closed on Education and Skills Development. Collected and 2010– analyzed data to help the government better target December education and labor market policies to help youth and 2012 vulnerable groups during economic crises THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Madagascar: Assessing Negative Effects of the Polit- 397,900 June 2011– Closed ical Crisis and Protecting Access to Essential Health September and Nutrition Services. Provided technical assistance 2012 to ensure continuous and effective health and nutrition service delivery in stable times and when crises hit Madagascar: Development of Tools to Monitor 449,770 November Closed and Mitigate the Effect of Crises on Out-of-School 2011– Children. Supported a diagnosis of the effects of March economic and political crises on children and devised 2013 appropriate mechanisms to protect vulnerable chil- dren’s access to basic education Malawi: Protecting Early Childhood Development. 1,500,000 April 2011– Closed Supported the government in the design, implemen- November tation, and evaluation of strategies to increase access 2012 to—and the quality of—9,000 community-based child care centers across the country Malawi: Protecting Early Childhood Development. 498,737 March Closed BENEFITS Supported the government in the design, implemen- 2011– tation, and evaluation of strategies to increase access November to—and the quality of—9,000 community-based child 2012 care centers across the country Malawi: Protecting Early Childhood Development. 190,734 April Closed Supported the government in the design, implemen- 2010– tation, and evaluation of strategies to increase access November to—and the quality of—9,000 community-based child 2012 64 care centers across the country Mali: Piloting Effective Early Childhood Development 2,214,200 October Closed Services. Assisted in the government’s crisis response 2010– by developing cost-effective early childhood develop- December ment services for vulnerable children in rural areas 2013 Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo: 50,617 February Closed Operations and Capacity Development for Nutrition. 2010–April Strengthened awareness of the need to improve 2012 capacity to implement nutrition interventions at scale EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA Albania: A Functional Review of the Administrative 49,846 December Closed Processes of Nhdima Ekonomike. A stocktaking of 2009– the country’s main poverty program’s administrative December architecture and its operational aspects, functional 2012 responsibilities, and institutional capacity SYSTEMS Rapid Assistance to Improve Social Safety Nets in 59,660 March Closed Kyrgyzstan in the Face of Energy Tariff Reforms. Sup- 2010–Feb- ported the Agency for Social Protection in reforming ruary 2012 its social safety nets so that vulnerable families with children have better access to programs and are less harmed by increases in energy prices PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Kyrgyz Republic: Roadmap for Improving Social 370,000 October Active Safety Net Administration and System Building. 2013– Supports the efforts of the Ministry of Social Develop- June 2015 ment to design and implement a roadmap for social protection; the grant catalyzes the switch from iso- lated social assistance interventions toward a system approach by providing critical analytical inputs and helping stakeholders to make informed choices Kyrgyzstan: Enhancement of Targeted Social Assis- 259,413 June 2011– Closed SYSTEMS tance. Supported the modernization of the cash January transfer program directed to families with children, 2013 and the development of a social protection strategy for the country Tajikistan: Targeting and Payment of Social Assis- 2,678,189 May 2010– Closed tance to the Poor. Supported the building blocks of December a more efficient system to deliver aid to the poorest 2013 households, so that the government and donors will have an effective way to intervene in ordinary times and during crises Regional: ECA Learning Forum—Management Infor- 330,000 March– Active mation Systems for Modernization of Social Protec- December tion Programs. Shares lessons and experiences on 2014 KNOWLEDGE the benefits of using new technologies in systematic ways to operate existing and new social protection interventions 65 Tajikistan: Protecting and Promoting Access to 396,291 November Closed Maternal and Neonatal Health Services. Provided 2011– technical assistance to assess the feasibility of a con- April 2013 BENEFITS ditional cash transfer to protect access for the poor to basic maternal and child health and nutrition ser- vices in selected rayons (districts) of the Sogd oblast (region) in Tajikistan EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC Assessing Myanmar’s Social Protection and Labor 450,000 February Active System and Designing Policy and Program Options 2014– for the Future. Uses the Social Protection Assessment June 2015 of Results and Country Systems (SPARCS) frame- work to identify strategic direction and appropriate instruments to build resilience and promote equity and opportunity; the grant also focuses on building the capacity of government to develop SPL policies, SYSTEMS design appropriate programs, and build an effective system for delivery Cambodia: Developing the Components of a National 250,000 Pipeline Active Social Protection System. Puts in place elements of a social protection system through technical assistance for the implementation of a cash transfer program; these elements can then be scaled-up to help develop a comprehensive social protection system THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Making Social Protection Systems Responsive 450,000 December Active to Natural Disasters in East Asia and the Pacific. 2013– Strengthens the capacity of governments across the June 2015 region to adapt social protection programs and sys- tems to mitigate disaster risks ex ante, improve cop- ing strategies, and better respond to natural disasters and extreme climate conditions Mongolia: Building a More Efficient Social Protection 265,000 May 2014– Active System. Improves the efficiency and effectiveness November of the country’s social assistance system by rec- 2015 ommending strategies to consolidate the country’s fragmented social assistance system and by building an integrated information technology system that can serve as an information platform to manage all categorical and proxy-means tested social assistance programs in the country Monitoring and Evaluation for Mongolia Social 67,787 February Closed Welfare Programs. Helped to develop an alternative 2010– to the current social security scheme and developed February a savings program for herders and others involved 2012 in the informal sector, as well as a social security SYSTEMS reserve fund Papua New Guinea: Ensuring Effective Monitoring 296,590 January Closed and Evaluation and Social Accountability for the 2011– Urban Youth Employment Project. Strengthened the June 2013 66 government’s capacity to implement and evaluate the impacts of an IDA-supported youth employment proj- ect that aims to increase the aspirations and future earnings of 17,500 urban disadvantaged youth Timor-Leste: Strengthening Social Safety Nets 87,811 January Active Institutions. Strengthened the delivery of social 2010– assistance through a diagnosis of existing payment October systems and options for alternative systems, and 2014 helped establish a management information system in the Ministry of Social Solidarity to facilitate moni- toring and evaluation Timor-Leste Social Protection Administration 2,220,000 March Active Project. Supports the Ministry of Social Solidarity in 2011– building a standardized information management sys- October tem that integrates beneficiary information across dif- 2014 ferent database systems and identifies beneficiaries uniquely and strengthening the government’s capac- ity to improve delivery of cash transfer programs Implementing Social Protection Programs: Asia 436,711 November Closed Learning Forum. The event took place in Bangalore, 2011– India, in September 2012 with the participation of May 2013 KNOWLEDGE social policy practitioners from 19 countries and focused on the administration and implementation aspects of social protection programs PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Bolivia: Strengthening Access to Social Services 90,000 Pipeline Active among Women and Indigenous Groups. Fills informa- tion gaps about dimensions of access to social ser- vices among women and indigenous groups in Bolivia with the goal of promoting more equitable access to social services, social protection, and economic opportunities Strengthening Haiti’s National Social Protection 450,000 April Active System. Helps the government improve its capacity 2014– to coordinate and target social initiatives and enhance November the efficiency and effectiveness of public spending in 2015 the area of social protection Honduras Strengthening Social Protection. Strength- 72,566 January Closed ened the government’s safety net programs by helping 2010– redesign the conditional cash transfer program and June 2012 enhance targeting of social safety net interventions Nicaragua: Expansion of the Family and Community- 2,548,570 February Closed Based Social Welfare Model with Cash Transfers. 2012– Provided technical assistance to the expansion of April 2013 SYSTEMS a model program for family and community-based social welfare and cash transfers Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS): 475,118 November Closed Enhanced Crisis Resilience Project. Strengthened 2011– the OECS Secretariat’s capacity to support and guide June 2013 67 national crisis responses on social protection Transforming Social Protection in St. Lucia. Supports 300,000 February Active the implementation of a Social Safety Net Reform 2014– through: (1) analyzing and improving key operational November elements of St. Lucia’s flagship Public Assistance 2015 Program, (2) harmonizing the architecture of social assistance programs, and (3) improving the Ministry of Social Transformation’s capacity to implement the Social Safety Net Reform Regional (Bolivia, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, 150,000 April Active Honduras, Nicaragua, St. Vincent and the Grena- 2014– dines): Building Evidence on Program’s Performance November to Strengthen Social Protection and Labor Systems 2015 in Low-Capacity LAC Countries Listening to LAC: Mobile Phones as Instruments for 239,106 April Closed Rigorous Surveys. Developed and piloted the use of a 2010– low-cost, quick method of gathering data via mobile June 2012 phone technology to give timely information on the effects of crises on poor and vulnerable populations in Latin America and the Caribbean KNOWLEDGE Regional: Improving Latin America and Caribbean 256,000 July 2011– Closed (LAC) Countries Responses to Protect the Nutritional February Status of the Poorest and Most Vulnerable. Sup- 2013 ported the development of a toolkit that offers policy makers and program administrators in the region cost-effective tools THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Haiti: Household Development Agent Pilot. Improves 3,202,317 April Active family health and nutrition practices by enhancing the 2010– quality and coordination of social services and intro- December ducing household development agents 2014 Haiti Nutrition Security and Social Safety Nets. 90,345 November Closed Improved the capacity and effectiveness of nutri- 2010– tion-related safety net programs to address acute and June 2012 chronic malnutrition Gender-Based Violence in Post-Earthquake Haiti. A 580,951 January Closed community-based organization received support from 2011– RSR to improve delivery of services to survivors of September gender-based violence and to enhance the growing 2012 BENEFITS public dialogue around the issue Honduras: Improving Nutritional Monitoring and 1,200,000 July 2012– Closed Targeted Response to the Global Crisis. Helped to December offset the negative effects of the global food crisis on 2013 the most vulnerable children by strengthening moni- toring systems and providing technical assistance to the expansion of the nutritional services in the most affected areas of the country Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti: Education Sector 378,250 December Closed Rapid Response and Protection of Youth Vulnerable 2011– to Violence and Conflict. Provided support to policy March development and strategic planning to protect chil- 2013 dren and youth from violence made worse by crises 68 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Djibouti: Employment for the Poor Project. Piloted 173,593 January Closed an integrated safety net mechanism that combines 2010–April a workfare program with social assistance for nutri- 2012 SYSTEMS tion, using community-driven and participatory approaches as well as targeted capacity-building interventions Lessons from Successful Education Administration 398,720 October Closed under Difficult Circumstances. Captured lessons from 2010– KNOWLEDGE the success of the United Nations Relief and Works November Agency for Palestine Refugees, which provided edu- 2012 cation to Palestinian students in the Middle East Yemen: Targeted Delivery of Early Childhood Nutrition 201,146 November Closed Interventions. Supported a short household survey to 2010– BENEFITS monitor the economic and social impact of instability, December including food insecurity; the pilot project was can- 2012 celed due to prevailing security concerns in Yemen SOUTH ASIA Afghanistan: Results-Oriented Approach in the Pro- 200,000 November Active Poor Program Design of Implementation. Aims to 2011–June SYSTEMS strengthen the institutional capacity to monitor and 2014 evaluate government programs and mechanisms delivering benefits PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Afghanistan: Assessing the Potential and Feasibil- 370,000 July 2015– Active ity of Scalable Public Works. Explores options for October increasing the social protection coverage of the poor 2015 by assessing the potential and feasibility of scalable short-term employment generation programs Bangladesh: Improving the Payment and Monitoring 1,087,800 June 2011– Active System for the Employment Generation Program for June 2014 the Poorest. Provides technical assistance to make beneficiary payment and recordkeeping mechanisms for the Employment Generation Program for the Poor- est more efficient Bangladesh: Piloting Conditional Cash Transfers for 2,987,400 September Closed Human Development through Local Governments. 2010– Piloted the mechanisms for delivering conditional December cash transfers through local governments to improve 2013 children’s nutrition and education Bhutan: Supporting the Development of a Social 300,000 March Active Protection Strategy. Supports the development of an 2014 – evidence-based social protection strategy June 2015 India: Broadening the Urban Safety Net Dialogue. 99,048 March Closed Provided support to streamlining and improving the 2010– effectiveness of urban safety nets in New Delhi and February improving the monitoring and delivery of benefit 2012 programs using integrated information technology platforms, databases, and smart cards SYSTEMS 69 India: Strengthening Social Protection Systems in 450,000 October Active Bihar. Evaluates the impact of providing a financial 2013– education program focused on long-term savings June 2015 for low-income households in Bihar, India, and their take-up rate of a New Government Pension Scheme (NPS Lite) designed for individuals working in the informal sector who are not covered by any formal old age social security program Maldives: Building a Common Platform for Identifica- 124,295 March Closed tion of the Poor. Assisted the government in design- 2011– ing and implementing a common platform for identifi- August cation of the poor 2012 Strengthening Safety Nets in Nepal: Piloting Tar- 2,227,650 January Active geted Conditional Cash Transfers. Improves the 2011– delivery of cash-based safety nets in pilot districts July 2014 through technical assistance and capacity building to the Ministry of Local Development Pakistan: Financial Inclusion and Literacy Outcomes 802,254 June 2011– Closed of Cash Transfers through the Banking System. An May 2013 assessment to improve the design and implementa- tion of the payment side of cash transfer programs in Pakistan and how different technologies work for the poor; also established ways to make cash grants more sustainable through financial inclusion (e.g., savings) and literacy THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Sri Lanka: Skills Development for Unemployed 238,800 June 2011– Closed Youth. Examined the impact of the economic crisis September on vulnerable groups in the formal and informal labor 2012 markets, and supported an analysis of critical policy issues on skills development, employment creation, SYSTEMS and economic growth Sri Lanka: Strengthening Targeting, Monitoring, and 167,760 July 2010– Closed Evaluation of Safety Nets. Supported an assessment June 2013 of the beneficiaries of the largest social safety net program with a view to make the program more effi- cient in helping the poor become more productive India: Critical Analysis of the Institutional Arrange- 99,640 February Closed ments for Improving Nutrition Outcomes. An analysis 2010– of existing institutional arrangements for organizing, May 2012 coordinating, and delivering nutrition services in India and recommendations for how service delivery could be strengthened Maldives: Technical Assistance to the National Social 58,098 June 2011– Closed Protection Agency on the National Health Insurance June 2013 Scheme. Strengthened the capacity of the National BENEFITS Social Protection Agency to improve the design of the Madhana, the country’s nascent social health insur- ance system, and helped build a robust monitoring and evaluation system that enhances the system’s efficiency and effectiveness 70 Pakistan: Protecting Pakistan’s Poor Against Health 363,992 December Closed Shocks. Provided technical assistance to the devel- 2011– opment of a diagnostic and a review of the health March sector’s policy options to increase the population’s 2013 resilience to health shocks caused by natural disasters GLOBAL Assessing Social Protection Systems. Supports 450,000 September Active countries in building effective SPL systems by provid- 2013–June ing clear, cross-country guidance for assessing and 2015 monitoring SPL system performance; supports Social Protection Assessment of Results and Country Sys- tems (SPARCS) in developing and applying common SYSTEMS instruments to assess the structure of SPL systems and guide their development, and Atlas of Social Pro- tection–Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) in collecting, harmonizing, and sharing comparable indicators of program performance based on house- hold and administrative data Public Works Learning Forum: Social Protection 515,134 February Closed South-South Learning Forum 2010. A South-South 2010– forum was held in June 2010, in Arusha, Tanzania. December The forum provided opportunities to more than 220 2011 KNOWLEDGE delegates from 40 low- and middle-income countries to exchange knowledge and take part in cross-country learning on the design and implementation of public works programs as safety net interventions as well as the development of an ongoing community of practice PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS The South-South Learning Forum: Building Resilient 350,000 November Closed Safety Nets in Low Income Countries and Fragile 2010– States. This forum, which was carried out in June November 2011, focused on promoting resilient safety nets 2012 following the recent wave of food, fuel, and financial crises and natural disasters South-South Learning Forum: Designing Social Pro- 450,000 January– Active tection Systems. Promotes global knowledge sharing December among social protection practitioners on the develop- 2014 ment of social protection systems, notably in low-in- come countries and fragile states; forum brought together approximately 200 practitioners and experts from 50 countries in Rio, Brazil South-South Learning Forum: Labor Market Policy 447,859 December Closed Response to the Global Jobs Crisis. Organized in 2011– Hyderabad in November 2012 to stimulate a discus- January sion and exchange on the experiences of labor and 2013 social protection policies during the recent economic crisis and how to bolster effective policy making on labor markets and social protection in response to future crises Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Multisector Actions 250,000 February Active to Achieve Nutrition Results. Develops and dissem- 2011– inates tools for a multisectoral approach to planning February and implementation of actions that protect and 2014 KNOWLEDGE improve nutrition outcomes for the poorest 71 Development of a Global Action Plan for Scaling-up 39,690 February– Closed Nutrition. Provided analytical work, consultations, December and policy guidance on how to scale-up nutrition 2010 investments and encourage multisectoral actions to achieve nutrition results Food Crisis Monitoring System. Developed a frame- 74,339 November Closed work that defines, identifies, and monitors food secu- 2011– rity crises at the national level caused by shocks and November factors that are not attributed to a given country; the 2012 framework categorizes each IDA country’s exposure to shocks and its capacity to respond Monitoring the Health Outcomes and Financial 160,535 April Closed Vulnerability of the Poorest. Built the capacity of 2010– policy makers and researchers to carry out analysis of September financial protection and equity, using ADePT Health 2011 software, and produced country-specific reports on financial protection, vulnerability, and equity in the health sector Policy Levers to Protect Health and Enhance Financial 443,947 July 2011– Closed Protection. Improved the capacity of governments June 2013 and the international community to monitor the health outcomes of the poor after the food, fuel, and financial crises; also helped design health systems and policies more effectively to provide protection to future crises THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM a PROJECT TITLE FUNDING ($) TIMELINE STATUS Preparing Social Protection Systems for Natural 370,094 July 2011– Closed Disasters and Climate Change. Supported the devel- July 2013 opment of a series of case studies and recommenda- tions from five countries to enhance the capacity of safety net programs to respond more effectively to natural disasters and the impact of climate change Development of the ADePT Crisis Module. Supported 249,263 April 2011– Closed the development of a crisis module of the ADePT September software platform; the module produces simulations 2012 to help policy makers understand the distributional effects of macro-shocks and structural reforms Impact of Financial Crises on Children and Youth: 241,127 January Closed Protecting Human Capital of Future Generations. 2011– RSR supported rapport, and accompanying policy June 2012 notes, to show how the right policies and targeted KNOWLEDGE interventions for children and youth can yield import- ant returns in human capital, and that even small, strategically applied resources can go a long way to protect and promote human development in crises and in stable times The Health Sector and the Poor in a Financial Crisis: 435,611 December Closed Identifying and Managing Risks. A stocktaking of the 2011– health sectors in the European region and their pre- June 2013 paredness and operational responses to the economic shock of 2008/09 with a view to generate lessons and 72 encourage stakeholder dialogue Development of a Management Information System 348,057 December Closed for Social Protection. Developed a high-quality, reli- 2011– able client registry system (CAPI) for efficient delivery August of social protection systems 2013 a. Grant amounts reflect allocated funds against approved proposals; however, these amounts may change slightly by time of grant closure to reflect actual disbursements against activities covered by the grant. Excess funds from closed grants will be reused and reallocated against new activities. PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Associated IDA Projects IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE AFRICA 46 P117764 Benin— Approved Improve access to decentralized Decen- (5/12) basic social services and main- tralized stream the community-driven Community development approach for such Driven Ser- services vices Angola, Benin, Cash 70 P127328 Mali— Approved Establish sustainable social safety Lesotho, Transfers— Emergency (4/13) net system and scale-up programs Mali, Design for Safety Nets that increase income and con- 391,874 Tanzania, Scaling Up in Project sumption of poor and vulnerable Zambia, Sub-Saharan households through cash transfers Uganda, and Africa and short-term employment Zimbabwe 220 P124045 Tanzania Approved Increase income and consumption Productive (3/12) and improve ability to cope with Social shocks among targeted vulnerable Safety Net population groups, while enhancing and protecting the human capital of their children 28 P143652 Benin Mul- Approved Increase the coverage and utili- tisectoral (12/13) zation of community-based child Enhancing Food Health growth and nutrition interventions Institutional Nutrition in selected areas in the recipient’s Capacity Project territory to Design, Benin and 32 P125237 Malawi Approved Increase access to, and utiliza- Implement, 385,000 Malawi Nutrition (3/12) tion of, selected services known and Monitor 73 Nutrition and HIV/ to contribute to the reduction of Security AIDS Project child stunting, maternal and child Programs anemia, and the prevention of HIV and AIDS in children and sexually active adults Youth 93,719 35 P132667 Benin: Approved Improve access to employment Employment BJ-Youth (3/14) skills and employment opportuni- in Africa— Employ- ties for underemployed youth in The Skills ment Benin Development- 50 P130735 Burkina Approved Increase access to temporary Labor Demand Faso: Youth (5/13) employment and skills develop- Conundrum Employ- ment opportunities for out-of- ment and school youth Benin, Skills Devel- Burkina opment Faso, Ghana, 60 P132248 Ghana Pipeline Expand and enhance opportunities Guinea, Youth FY14 for youth employment, with a par- Sierra Leone Employ- ticular focus on at-risk youth ment Project 20 P121052 Sierra Approved Increase short-term employment Leone Youth (6/10) opportunities and improve employ- Employ- ability and incomes of targeted ment Sup- youth; program seeks to address port constraints on the demand and sup- ply sides of the labor market THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Building a a P117764 Benin: Approved Improve access to decentralized Common Decentral- (5/12) basic social services and main- National ized Commu- stream the community-driven Targeting nity Driven development approach for services and Registry Services Benin System for Cash 275,000 22.8 P113202 Benin: Approved Contribute to increasing the Transfers, Public Health (5/10) coverage of quality maternal and Works and System Per- neonatal services in eight health Other Safety Net formance districts (roughly a quarter of the Interventions Project population) Strengthening 500,000 30 P124015 Burkina Approved Provide income support to poor Safety Net Faso Social (4/14) and vulnerable groups and lay the Burkina Faso Response to Safety Net foundations for a basic safety net Crises Project system Strengthening 550,000 Safety Net Support the establishment of a Response to basic national safety net system Crises Cameroon Approved including piloting targeted cash Cameroon 50 P128534 Social Support to 350,000 (3/13) transfers and public works pro- Safety Nets Building grams for the poorest and most Productive vulnerable people Safety Nets Congo 350,000 2 P145263 LISUNGI— Approved Establish the key building blocks of Brazaville: Safety Nets (1/14) a national safety net program and LISUNGI— Project pilot a cash transfer program to Congo Safety Net improve access to health and edu- System cation services of poorest house- 74 holds in participating areas Assessing 300,000 50 P143332 Produc- Pipeline Set the foundations of an effective the Impact tive Social and productive type of safety net of Crisis on Safety Net system capable of responding to Human Capital the country’s needs both in normal Côte d’Ivoire and Laying times and during times of crisis Foundations for an Effective SSN System DRC: Support 350,000 15 P145965 Human Approved Strengthen select management to Establish a Devel- (1/14) systems for education and health Democratic National SP opment services in targeted geographic Republic of System Systems areas Congo Strengthen- ing Strengthening 1,202,144 30 P106228 Ethiopia Approved Improve child and maternal care the Nutrition Nutrition (4/08) behavior and increase utilization Information and of key micronutrients in order to Ethiopia Early Warning contribute to nutritional status of System in vulnerable groups Ethiopia Rapid Response 3,150,623 3 P143650 Maternal Approved Increase the coverage of commu- Nutrition and Child (3/14) nity-based nutrition and primary Security Nutrition health care services Gambia, The Improvement and Health Project Results Project PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Cash Transfers 181,322 89 P115247 Social Approved Improve targeting in social Designed and Opportuni- (5/10) protection spending, increase Brought to ties Project access to conditional cash trans- Scale fers nationwide, increase access to employment and cash-earning opportunities for the rural poor during the agricultural off-season, and improve economic and social Ghana infrastructure in target districts Building a 450,000 50 P146923 Additional Approved Improve targeting of social pro- Common Financing (5/14) tection programs and provide Targeting for Ghana income support to poor households Registry for Social through LEAP (Livelihood Empow- Ghana’s Social Opportuni- erment Against Poverty) targeted Protection ties Project districts System Social 150,000 Protection Interventions National Developing and 415,250 Integrated Establish an effective national Approved Strengthening 250 P131305 Safety Net safety net for poor and vulnerable (5/13) the Kenya Program households Social (P4R) Protection System Kenya Support 1,290,000 50 P111545 Kenya Cash Approved Increase social safety net access for for Social Transfer for (3/09) extremely poor orphans and vul- Protection Orphans nerable children (OVC) households Programming and Vulnera- through an effective and efficient 75 ble Children expansion of the CT-OVC Program Support to 980,000 60 P111546 Youth Approved Support the government’s efforts the Internship Empow- (5/10) to increase access to youth-tar- Program of the erment geted temporary employment Kenya Private Project programs and to improve youth Sector Alliance employability Developing the 250,000 16 P146534 Lesotho: Pipeline Assist the government in imple- Strategy and Second menting a reform program aimed Building Blocks Growth and at promoting growth, competitive- Lesotho for a Social Compet- ness, and public sector efficiency Protection itiveness System in DPC Lesotho Improving 240,000 16 P121686 Youth, Approved Expand access of poor and young Employment Employ- (6/10) Liberians to temporary employ- of Vulnerable ment, Skills ment programs and improve youth Youth Project employability Development 288,275 10 P127317 Poverty Approved Support the broadening of reforms Liberia of a Crisis Reduction (6/13) to include economic transformation Response Strategy and human development in the Social Credit I context of the implementation of Protection the government’s second Poverty Strategy and Reduction Strategy Capacity THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Assessing 397,900 Negative Effects of the Political Crisis and Protecting Emergency Access to Support Essential Health to Critical Preserve critical education, health, and Nutrition Education, Approved and nutrition service delivery in Services 65 P131945 Health and (11/12) targeted vulnerable areas in the Development 450,000 Nutrition recipient’s territory of Tools to Services Madagascar Project Monitor and Mitigate the Effect of Crises on Out-of- School Children Developing 441,000 65 P147514 Emergency, Approved Strengthen the country’s immedi- Madagascar’s Food (2/14) ate capacity to respond effectively Safety Net Security to the food security and locust System and Social crises Protection Project Developing the 2,155,000 Building Blocks for Effective Crisis Response Provide temporary income support Social Approved to extremely poor households and Mozambique Building Gender 1,000,000 50 P129524 Safety Net (3/13) put in place the building blocks of a Sensitive Project social safety net system 76 SPL Systems through Soft- Public Works Strengthening 399,686 300 P126964 Youth Approved Increase access of the poor to Social Safety Employ- (3/13) youth employment opportunities, Net ment and social services, and strengthened Nigeria Social safety net systems in participating Support states Operation Technical 67,995 40 P126877 Support Approved Support the government’s efforts Assistance for to Social (3/12) to consolidate, enhance efficiency Stronger Social Protection and effectiveness, and expand Safety Nets System coverage of its social protection system Technical 2,124,000 6 P122157 Third Approved Support the government’s social Assistance Commu- (3/11) protection and health reforms and Capacity nity Living designed to reduce extreme pov- Building to the Standards erty Vision 2020 Grant Umurenge Program (VUP) Rwanda 50 P131666 Rwanda Approved Support the government’s efforts Second (3/13) to consolidate, enhance efficiency Support and effectiveness, and expand to Social coverage of its social protection SPL Systems in Protection system Rwanda: System 450,000 Operationaliz- 70 P146452 Rwanda Approved Support the government’s efforts ing the Vision Third (3/14) to enhance effectiveness and Support to expand the coverage of its social the Social protection system Protection System PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Developing a 291,306 40.5 P133597 Senegal Approved Assist the government in develop- Unified and Safety Net (4/14) ing building blocks of an efficient Effective Safety Operation safety net system Net Senegal Developing 300,000 20 P129472 Senegal Approved Increase utilization and quality of Senegal Safety Health (12/13) maternal, neonatal, and child health Net System and Social care and nutritional services, espe- Financing cially among the poorest house- holds in targeted areas of Senegal Social Safety 300,000 Net Support Developing 300,000 Sierra Leone’s Sierra Leone Create a comprehensive, efficient, Social Approved Sierra Leone 7 P143588 Safety Nets well-targeted productive safety net Protection (3/14) Project system for the poor and vulnerable System through Common Targeting Mechanisms Enhancing 626,136 Social Protection for the Most Vulnerable Children and Create a comprehensive, efficient, Elderly Poor Tanzania well-targeted productive social Produc- Approved Tanzania A Systems 410,000 a P124045 safety net system for the poor and tive Social (3/12) Based vulnerable section of the Tanzanian Safety Net population 77 Approach for Operationalizing the Tanzania Productive Social Safety Net Experience of 88,699 8.7 P121067 Togo Approved Provide selected poor communities Cash for Work Community (6/10) with improved basic socioeconomic Program in Devel- infrastructures, income-generating Liberia for Togo opment and labor-intensive activities, and Project access to food Additional Financing Support to SSN 220,000 Togo Development in Togo Community Provide poor communities with Promoting 283,806 Develop- Approved greater access to basic socio- Innovative 14 P127200 ment and (3/12) economic infrastructures and social Crisis Response Safety Nets safety nets Social Protection Measures EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC M&E for 67,787 Mongolia Mongolia Strengthen the capacity of the Min- Social Welfare Multi-Sec- istry of Social Welfare and Labor Programs toral Approved to improve the efficacy of social Mongolia 12 P119825 Building a 265,000 Technical (6/10) expenditure by designing and More Efficient Assistance implementing a targeted poverty SP System in Project benefit Mongolia THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Ensuring 296,590 16 P114042 Urban Youth Approved Provide urban youth with income Effective M&E Employ- (1/11) from temporary employment and Social ment opportunities and increase their Papua New Accountability Project employability Guinea for the Urban Youth Employment Project EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA 50 P122233 Social Approved Support Albania’s implementation Assistance (4/12) of reforms to improve the equity Moderniza- and efficiency of its social assis- tion Project tance programs Albania Social Albania 500,000 25 P116937 Social Sec- Approved Support policy changes to improve Safety Nets TA tor Reform (4/11) the effectiveness of social safety Develop- nets ment Policy Loan Rapid 59,660 30 P125425 Economic Approved Safeguard social assistance to the Assistance to Recovery (8/11) poor and to conflict-affected fam- Improve Social Support ilies in the face of fiscal pressures Safety Nets Operation and improve targeting in the Face of Energy Tariff Reforms Enhancement 260,000 Kyrgyz of Targeted Improve health outcomes in four Republic 78 Social health priority areas in support Assistance Second of the National Health Reform Health Roadmap for 370,000 Approved Program 2012/16; and enable the 16.5 P126278 and Social Improving (5/13) government’s efforts to enhance Protection Social SSN effectiveness and targeting per- Project Administration formance of social assistance and and System services Building Targeting 2,724,998 3 P122039 Social Approved Improve the capacity of the and Payment Safety Net (6/11) government to plan, monitor, and of Social Strengthen- manage social assistance for the Assistance to ing Project poor through the development of a the Poor national registry of social protec- tion and the provision of training, equipment, and related items for Tajikistan improving said capacity Protecting and 400,000 15 P126130 Tajikistan Approved Contribute to the improvement of Promoting Health (7/13) the coverage and quality of basic Access to Services primary health care services in Maternal and Improve- rural health facilities in selected Neonatal ment regions Health Services Project PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 5 P123128 Grenada Approved Strengthen the basic architecture of Safety Net (7/11) the consolidated conditional cash Advance- transfer program and the capacity ment of the Ministry of Social Develop- Project ment to implement it, improve cov- erage of poor households receiving cash transfers, and improve edu- cational outcomes of poor children and health monitoring of vulnerable households 20 P121779 Nicaragua Approved Improve basic conditions of Social Pro- (2/11) welfare and social well-being tection of extremely poor beneficiary families with children in selected localities, strengthen capacity of MIFAN to implement the family and community-based social welfare model, and promote preschool and primary school attendance through the provision of school lunches Bolivia, 17 P101084 Bolivia: Approved Strengthen the effectiveness of Dominica, Building Investing (3/08) social protection system by sup- Grenada, Evidence on in Children porting the design, financing, and Guyana, Program’s and Youth implementation of two flagship Haiti, Hon- Performance to 150,000 interventions of the social pro- duras, Nic- Strengthen SPL tection network strategy, while aragua, St. Systems in Low enhancing its capacity to coordi- Vincent and Capacity LAC nate and monitor programs that 79 the Grena- Countries are part of the social protection dines network 40 P115592 Honduras Approved Improve institutional capacity of Social Pro- (6/10) recipient’s institutions to manage tection the conditional cash transfer pro- gram, provide income support to eligible beneficiaries, increase use of preventive health services and school attendance in grades 1–6 among beneficiaries in rural areas, and improve recipient’s capacity to respond to an eligible emergency 50 P123706 Haiti: Approved Increase the access and use of Improving (5/13) maternal and child health, nutrition, Maternal and other social services and Child Health through Integrated Social Ser- vices Strengthening 90,000 31.9 P101336 Strengthen- Approved Strengthen the statistical capacity Access to ing Statisti- (1/11) and improve the informational base Social Security cal Capacity of the recipient in order to provide among Women and Informa- quality information, as defined by and Indigenous tional Base its reliability, timeliness, accuracy, Bolivia Groups for Evi- and representativeness with the dence-Based level of disaggregation necessary Planning to support systems for planning, designing, monitoring, and evaluat- ing public programs and policies THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Household 3,377,484 Improving Development Maternal Agent Pilot and Child Increase the access and use of Strengthening 450,000 a Health Approved Haiti P123706 maternal and child health, nutrition, Haiti’s through (5/13) and other social services National Social Integrated Protection Social Ser- System vices a P115592 Honduras Approved Support the government’s efforts Social (6/10) to build an improved social protec- Protection tion system mainly by strengthen- ing institutional capacity to design and implement a new conditional cash transfer program, the Bono 10,000 Program 12.3 P144928 Honduras Approved Improve institutional capacity Additional (8/13) to manage the conditional cash Strengthening Financing transfer program by strengthening Social 72,566 for SP transparency and targeting, mon- Protection Project itoring compliance with program co-responsibilities, and making payments to beneficiaries; provide income support to eligible benefi- Honduras ciaries; increase use of preventive health services and school atten- dance in grades 1–6 among benefi- ciaries in rural areas; and improve recipient’s capacity to respond 80 effectively to an eligible emergency Improving 1,200,000 23.6 P126158 Additional Approved Improve Honduras’s social safety Nutritional Finance for (6/11) net for children and youth by Monitoring Nutrition strengthening the country’s capac- and Targeted and Social ity to administer social assistance Response to Protection programs, improving nutritional Global Crisis and health status of young children, Project and increasing employability of at-risk youth by piloting an employ- ment program Expansion of 2,750,000 19.5 P121779 Nicaragua Approved Improve the basic welfare of the Family and Social (2/11) extremely poor beneficiary fami- Community Protection lies with children, strengthen the Based Social capacity of MIFAN to implement Nicaragua Welfare Model the family and community-based with Cash social welfare model, and promote Transfers preschool and primary school attendance through the provision of school lunches MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Employment 173,593 5 P130328 Crisis Approved Support the provision of short- for the Poor Response— (6/12) term employment opportunities in Project Social community-based labor-intensive Djibouti Safety Net works for the poor and vulnerable, Project and support the improvement of nutrition practices among partici- pating households PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE SOUTH ASIA Afghanistan: 200,000 8 P113421 Afghanistan Approved Improve the administration of the Results- Pension (10/09) public pension schemes, and pilot Oriented Adminis- a modest social safety net program Approach in tration and as a first step to developing a sus- Afghanistan the Pro-Poor Safety Net tainable approach to safety nets in Program Project the country Design and Implementation Piloting 2,987,400 500 P132634 Bangladesh Approved Improve the equity, efficiency, and Conditional Safety Net (7/13) transparency of key social safety Cash Transfers Systems for net programs and finance short- for Human the Poorest term employment to enable the Development Project poorest households to better cope through Local with poverty and vulnerability Governments Bangladesh Improving 1,098,465 150 P118701 Employ- Approved Provide short-term employment on Payment and ment (11/10) community subprojects to enable Monitoring Generation households to better cope with System for Program for vulnerability, while strengthening Employment the Poorest program implementation Generation Program for the Poorest Critical Analysis 99,640 106 P121731 Integrated Approved Improve nutritional outcomes of of Institutional Child Devel- (9/12) children in India; strengthen the Arrangements opment policy framework, systems, and for Nutrition Services— capacities, and facilitate community Systems engagement; and ensure greater 81 Strength- focus on children under three ening and Nutrition Improve- ment Pro- gram 84 P118826 Bihar Approved Strengthen institutional capacity of Integrated (12/13) the Department of Social Welfare Social and the Rural Development Depart- Protection ment to deliver social protection India Strengthen- programs and services and expand ing Project outreach of social care services for poor and vulnerable households, persons with disabilities, older Strengthening persons, and widows Social Protection 450,000 63 P090764 Bihar Rural Approved Enhance social and economic Systems in Livelihoods (6/07) empowerment of the rural poor in Bihar Project— Bihar through community institution JEEViKA development, community invest- ment, and technical assistance 100 P130546 Bihar Rural Approved Livelihood (5/12) Project Additional Financing THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IDA RSR AMT AMT PROJECT PROJECT COUNTRY GRANT NAME ($) (M $) ID NAME STATUS PROJECT OBJECTIVE Building a 194,310 Common Platform for Support the implementation of the Identification of National Pension Act, to strengthen Pension the Poor institutional capacity of key agen- and Social Approved cies responsible for implementing Maldives TA to the 60,000 12 P125700 Protection (6/11) the National Pension Act, and to National AP Additional develop the processes and plat- Agency on Financing forms required for the delivery of National Health social protection programs Insurance Scheme Protecting 400,000 100 P123394 Punjab Approved Support the implementation of the Pakistan’s Poor Health Sec- (5/13) Health Sector Strategy by focusing against Health tor Reform on improving the coverage and Shocks Project utilizing quality essential health ser- vices, particularly in the low-per- forming districts of Punjab 60 P103160 Social Approved Support the expansion and Safety Net (6/09) strengthen the administration and TA performance of the country‘s safety net with particular focus on the Benazir Income Support Program Financial (BISP) as the national safety net Pakistan Inclusion platform and Literacy 150 P125792 Social Approved Support the expansion and Outcomes of Safety Net (3/12) strengthen the administration and 810,000 Cash Transfers Project— performance of the country’s safety through the Additional net with particular focus on the BISP 82 Banking Financing as the national safety net plat- System form; the Additional Financing will support the evolution of Pakistan’s BISP through the expansion of program coverage and broadening of objectives to promote access to educational services Skills 238,800 100 P132698 Skills Devel- Pipeline Support the government of Sri Lanka Development opment to improve the quality and relevance Sri Lanka for Project of the skills development sector Unemployed Youth TOTAL IDA 41,932,655 3,784 N O T E : Grant amounts reflect allocated funds against approved proposals; however, these amounts may change slightly by time of grant closure to reflect actual disbursements against activities covered by the grant. Excess funds from closed grants will be reused and reallocated against new activities. a. IDA amount for this project included in regional project. 2014 RSR-MDTF Financial Report THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM Status of Contributions and Total Cash Received The RSR Program includes two trust fund programs, the RSR Multi-Donor Trust Fund (RSR-MDTF) and the RSR Catalyst Trust Fund (RSRC), which closed on June 30, 2012. As of June 30, 2014, contributions to the RSR Program from donors totaled about $110.24 million. Table F1 shows the breakdown of contributions by donors: $50 million from the Russian Federation, NKr 130 million (about $21.62 million) from Norway, $A 2.90 million from Australia (about $2.97 million), SKr 70 million from Sweden (about $10.43 million), and £15 million from the United Kingdom (about $25.21 million). These contributions represent the total amounts specified in the countersigned administrative agreements between the donors, IBRD, and IDA. Table F1: Status of Paid and Unpaid Contributions by Donor, as of June 30, 2014 CONTRIBUTIONS IN CURRENCY CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS UNPAID DONOR RECEIVED AMOUNT ($) PAID ($) INSTALLMENTS ($) TOTAL ($) Russian Federation million $ 50.00 50.00 0.00 50.00 Norway million NKr 130.00 21.62 0.00 21.62 Australia million $A 2.90 2.97 0.00 2.97 Sweden million SKr 70.00 10.43 0.00 10.43 United Kingdom million £ 15.00 8.10 17.11 25.21 84 Total paid and unpaid contributions 93.13 17.11 110.24 a S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). a. Installment amounts paid in US$ are subject to the market currency exchange rate at the time the funds are received and the date they are converted to US$. In 2013, a new donor, the United Kingdom, joined the RSR-MDTF. According to the schedule of payments set forth in the administrative agreement between DfID and IBRD and IDA, the unpaid contribution balance of £10 million (about $17.11 mil- lion) will be disbursed in two equal installment payments in September 2014 and September 2015. Also, Norway provided additional contributions to the RSR-MDTF since the 2013 Progress Report. As a result, total contributions over last year increased by 53 percent. Table F2 shows the breakdown of total cash contributions by donor and year received. The United Kingdom via DfID was the sole contributor to the RSRC. A total contri- bution of £2 million (about $3.24 million) was received against the trust fund pro- gram. These funds supported the preparation of key analytical work in 30 countries focused on assessing existing programs, technical assistance to improve compo- nents of existing systems, and building the capacity of implementing teams. For more information on the status of the RSRC, see RSR Management Team (2013). Table F3 presents the financial summary for both trust funds, including infor- mation on the status of donor contributions, investment income, grant commit- ments and disbursements, approved proposals without allocation, and funds available for allocation against future calls for proposals. The RSR-MDTF and PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 Table F2: Cash Paid in Contributions by Donor and Year Received, as of June 30, 2014 (million $) DONOR 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 TOTAL Russian Federation 20.00 15.00 15.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 Norway 8.57 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.05 21.62 Australia 0.00 0.00 2.97 0.00 0.00 2.97 Sweden 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.43 0.00 10.43 United Kingdom 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.10 8.10 Total 28.57 15.00 17.97 10.43 21.15 93.13 S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). Table F3: RSR-MDTF and RSRC Contributions Paid in and Financial Summary, as of June 30, 2014 (million $) RSR-MDTF RSRC TOTAL a. Receipts Cash contributiona 93.13 3.24 96.37 Investment income b 0.95 0.02 0.97 Other incomec 0.16 0.00 0.16 TOTAL RECEIPTS 94.24 3.25 97.49 b. Grant amount/allocationd 67.02 2.99 70.01 c. Nonproject disbursements Refundse 0.00 0.07 0.07 Administrative feef 0.93 0.20 1.13 85 Approved proposals without allocation g 0.99 0.00 0.99 AVAILABLE BALANCEh 25.30 0.00 25.30 d. Activity disbursements and commitments Disbursementsi 51.89 2.99 54.88 Commitmentsj 2.24 0.00 2.24 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS 54.12 2.99 57.11 S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). N O T E : In accordance with the Trust Fund Administrative Agreement, “the World Bank shall furnish to the Donor current financial information relating to receipts, disbursements and fund balance with respect to the Contributions via the World Bank’s Trust Funds Donor Center secure website. The Bank shall provide to the Donors an annual single audit reporting, within 6 months following the end of the each Bank fiscal year, which starts on July 1 and ends on June 30 of each year.” Additional information on accounting and financial reporting is included in the Administrative Agreement, Annex 2, paragraph 6. a. Any portion of a contribution made in form of cash. b. Returns on cash and investments allocated to the Trust Fund and earned between November 2009 and June 30, 2014. c. Ineligible expenses returned from one of the recipient-executed grants that has closed. Funds will be reallocated against new grants. d. The setting aside of funds for specific agreed activities/projects in accordance with the decision-making process specified in the administrative agreement. e. Unspent funds from the RSRC were automatically transferred to the donor bank account. f. The cost of administration and other expenses, which are in accordance with the terms of the administrative agreement. g. Proposals that have been approved by the selection committee but for which funding is not yet allocated. h. Funds available for new allocation after subtracting total grant amount, administrative fee, and approved proposal without alloca- tion. Contributions received in late 2013 will be allocated in 2014 and 2015 against new rounds of calls for proposals. i. Cash payment to a recipient or vendor based on a commitment by the Bank. The Bank provides oversight and supervision over implementation. j. Obligations of the Trust Fund to provide funds. They are recorded in full amounts in the system, pending disbursement against the allocated goods and services. THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM RSRC have earned investment income since the inception of the two trust fund programs. The income is used for the same purposes as the contribution funds, as specified in the trust fund administrative agreements. At present, the RSR-MDTF is valued at $94.24 million ($93.13 million in donor deposits, plus $0.95 million in investment income, in addition to $0.16 mil- Figure F1: RSR-MDTF Program Status lion in returned funds). The as of March 30, 2014 administrative fee for both trust fund programs represents the cost of administration and other expenses, which are in accor- dance with the terms of the Active funds administrative agreements. 43% Legally closed funds 55% Since the inception of the RSR- MDTF in late 2009, seven rounds of calls for proposals have been launched, covering activities and projects in all regions and glob- ally. Figure F1 shows the current Closed funds but still disbursing status of the RSR-MDTF program 2% activities. All activities under the S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). RSRC are now legally closed. 86 Disbursements under the RSR Program have increased significantly since December 2009, as shown in fig- ure F2. To date, about 78 percent of the funds allocated to activities have been Figure F2: RSR Program Cumulative Grant Approvals and Disbursements as of March 30, 2014 Million $ 70 Approved grants Disbursements Commitments 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 disbursed, and another 3 percent is contractually committed. New rounds of calls for proposals are planned to be launched in fiscal years 2014 and 2015 to allocate the unused balance of contributions received in late 2013. RSR Program Grant Allocation by Trust Fund Type The RSR-MDTF and RSRC fund two main types of grants, as shown in fig- ure F3. Recipient-Executed Trust Funds (RETFs) are funds that the Bank passes onto a recipient, for which the Figure F3: RSR Program Grant Bank plays an operational role. Allocation by Trust Fund Type Bank-Executed Trust Funds (BETFs) finance activities, such The RSR Program funds a total of as capacity building and techni- cal assistance, that are imple- 129 activities implemented in 66 mented by the Bank. Recipient executed, As shown in figure F4, Africa countries. 44% Bank executed, receives the largest share of allo- 56% cations among all the regions, accounting for 49.5 percent of the RSR-MDTF and RSRC combined portfolio, covering 87 30 countries and funding 54 S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). activities. Figure F4: Resource Allocation by Region Sub-Saharan Africa 49.5% Global East Asia and 7.3% the Pacific 5.8% South Asia 14.1% Eastern Europe and Central Asia 5.9% Latin America Middle East and the Carribean and North Africa 14.2% 3.2% S O U R C E : SAP (Bank internal system). RSR Results Framework and Indicators THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM INDICATOR 2013 2014 2015, 2016, … Social protection cov- 42.1 million — — erage in IDA-supported More poor people projects (both genders) IMPACT covered by social protection systems Social protection cov- 21.0 million — — erage in IDA-supported projects (female only) Increased resource allo- $3.326 billion $0 $0 cation to social protec- tion through IDA Enhanced capacity Increased resource alloca- $2.422 billion $0 $0 of social protection tion to social protection OUTCOME systems to protect overall budget, domestic poor and vulnerable and other funding people Global data accessi- 57 — — ble (number of new countries in ASPIRE/ SPARCS) 1.1 System diagnostic and stocktaking Number 71 — — 1.1(a) Diagnostic, stocktaking, and Number of countries 41 — — mapping Amount $11,978,591 $0 $0 90 Number 31 — — 1.1(b) Identification or development of Number of countries 37 — — effective options Amount $6,372,750 $0 $0 1.2 Component design OUTPUT 1: and development NEW OR IMPROVED 1.2(a) Building Number 27 — — SOCIAL systems for robust PROTECTION identification of Number of countries 21 — — AND LABOR beneficiaries and Amount $2,537,607 $0 $0 SYSTEM COM- development of PONENTS registries AND ARCHI- TECTURE 1.2(b) Improving Number 35 — — processes for Number of countries 29 — — determination of eligibility Amount $5,358,345 $0 $0 Number 9 — — 1.2(c) Developing effective appeals and Number of countries 7 — — grievance procedures Amount $618,230 $0 $0 Number 12 — — 1.2(d) Streamlining Number of countries 14 — — payment systems Amount $2,359,261 $0 $0 PROGRE SS RE PORT 2014 INDICATOR 2013 2014 2015, 2016, … 1.2(e) Setting Number 26 — — up appropriate Number of countries 21 — — evaluation arrangements Amount $6,245,840 $0 $0 1.2(f) Establishing Number 17 — — practices for Number of countries 13 — — communication and outreach Amount $2,470,868 $0 $0 1.2(g) Building Number 33 — — information systems Number of countries 28 — — for better service management Amount $5,943,983 $0 $0 1.2(h) Improving Number 24 — — administrative Number of countries 29 — — processes and clarifying rules Amount $4,860,691 $0 $0 1.3 Interagency program harmonization Number 17 — — 1.3(a) Coordination of legal and policy-level Number of countries 18 — — frameworks 91 Amount $1,529,183 $0 $0 Number 33 — — 1.3(b) Integration of Number of countries 28 — — programs Amount $3,855,916 $0 $0 Number of client 6 — — 1.4 Customer government officials feedback interviewed Rate of satisfaction 80% Number of events 11 — — Amount $2,703,224 $0 $0 OUTPUT 2: 2.1 South-South and Number of participants 856 — — INCREASED peer-to-peer learning Number of countries 70 — — LEARNING represented AND KNOWLEDGE Rate of satisfaction 82.1% SHARING FOR SOCIAL Number 3 — — PROTECTION Amount $665,000 $0 $0 AND LABOR SERVICE 2.2 Communities of Number of participants 141 — — DELIVERY practice Number of countries 25 — — represented Satisfaction rating Very high THE WORLD BANK | RAPID SOCIAL RESPONSE PROGRAM INDICATOR 2013 2014 2015, 2016, … Number 15 — — Amount $ 2,776,875 $0 $0 2.3 Analytical and operational toolkits Number of downloads — — — Number of training — — — participants Number 18 — — OUTPUT 3: Number of countries 12 — — PROTECTION OF ACCESS Amount $14,622,483 $0 $0 3.1 Projects to TO BASIC provide benefits Number of beneficiaries 86,000 — — SERVICES IN TIMES OF (both genders) CRISIS Number of beneficiaries 43,000 — — (female only) N O T E : All indicators are cumulative from the inception of the RSR to the end of the reporting year unless otherwise stated. 92 REFERENCES RSR Management Team. 2013. 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