The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA | Comoros | Social Protection & Jobs Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2023 | Seq No: 1 | ARCHIVED on 31-Mar-2023 | ISR55194 | Implementing Agencies: MINISTRY OF HEALTH, SOLIDARITY, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND GENDER PROMOTION, UNION OF COMOROS Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 22-Dec-2022 Effectiveness Date: 14-Feb-2023 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 30-Sep-2025 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: Original Closing Date: 30-Jun-2027 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2027 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) To provide emergency cash transfers and improve the resilience of vulnerable households Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Ensuring Immediate Response to Shock:(Cost $9.50 M) Establishing Economic opportunities:(Cost $16.50 M) Strengthening safety net coordination, project management, monitoring, and evaluation:(Cost $4.00 M) Contingent Emergency Response Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO -- Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) -- Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating -- Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions This is the initial ISR of the project. The project was approved by the World Bank's Board on December 22, 2022 and effectiveness has been declared on February 27, 2023. To avoid any delay in activities, the Project Implementation Unit should accelerate the update of the operations manual, including the detailed work plan and the Ministry in charge of Social Protection should set up the steering committee by April 2023. 3/31/2023 Page 1 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance High -- High Macroeconomic Substantial -- Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate -- Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate -- Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Moderate -- Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary Moderate -- Moderate Environment and Social Moderate -- Moderate Stakeholders Moderate -- Moderate Other -- -- -- Overall Moderate -- Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes To provide emergency cash transfers and improve the resilience of vulnerable households. IN01258930 ►Beneficiaries of social safety net programs (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 200,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of beneficiaries of the social safety net programs (social cash transfer, cash for work, livelihood Comments: and income generating activities, exit program). This indicator has a sub-indicator (female beneficiaries of social safety net programs ) that covers gender tag. IN01258965 Female beneficiary of social safety net (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Providing emergency cash transfers IN01258961 3/31/2023 Page 2 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) ►Share of the vulnerable households receiving Social Cash Transfers in response to Shock (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 40.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Ratio between the number of households receiving social cash transfers (SCT) over the total number of vulnerable households in the Comoros according to the definition of vulnerable households used in the Comments: project design. This indicator has sub-indicator covering gender gap : Share of female recipients throughout social cash transfer. IN01258963 Share of vulnerable female recipient of social cash transfer (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 40.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Improve households resilience IN01258962 ►Share of households among beneficiaries who started their activity at the end of the economic opportunities program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 50.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Share of households among beneficiaries (income generating activities and cash for work for resilience) Comments: who started their activity at the end of the economic opportunities program. This indicator has a sub- indicator covering gender gap. IN01258964 Share of women recipient among beneficiaries who started their activities at the end of the program (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 65.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Ensuring Immediate Response to Shock IN01258968 ►Households benefiting from social cash transfer in response to shock (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 33,000.00 3/31/2023 Page 3 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Number of households beneficiaries of social cash transfer IN01258970 ►Share of women recipient of social cash transfer in response to shock among beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 65.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Percentage of women recipient of social cash transfer in response to shock among beneficiaries Establishing economic opportunities IN01258967 ►Households benefiting from the Livelihoods income generating activities program and who have launched their activities (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of household beneficiaries that have prepared their implementation plan and have effectively Comments: started their activities among those that have received cash transfers for income-generating activities and livelihoods IN01258969 ►Women recipients of the Livelihoods Income Generating Activities program who have launched their activities (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 65.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Percentage of women recipients who have their implementation plan and have launched effectively their Comments: activities among beneficiaries of Livelihoods Income Generating Activities. This is a gender gap indicator. IN01258971 ►Households beneficiaries of the cash for work for resilience program (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 5,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Number of households beneficiaries of the cash for work for resilience program IN01258973 ►Women recipients among total recipient of cash for work for resilience program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 3/31/2023 Page 4 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Value 0.00 -- 0.00 65.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Percentage of women among recipients of cash for work for resilience program. This is a gender gap Comments: indicator. IN01258975 ►Person/days of employment created (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 400,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 This indicator measures total number of working days of the cash for work beneficiaries under sub- Comments: components 2.2 and 2.3. It provides a measurement on the effectiveness and efficiency of project implementation. IN01258977 ►Households beneficiaries participating in technical training (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of beneficiaries (cash for work, livelihood and income generating activities, exit program) who Comments: have participated in technical trainings (attendance list) IN01258979 ►Female having benefited from technical training among beneficiaries of livelihood and income generating activities, cash for work for resilience, exit program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 65.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 percentage of female among beneficiaries of livelihood and income generating activities, cash for work for Comments: resilience, exit program benefiting from technical training (attendance list). This is a gender gap indicator. IN01258981 ►Percentage of households beneficiaries of cash for work program using organic fertilizers (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 60.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Percentage of households beneficiaries of cash for work program using organic fertilizers IN01258983 ►Elected and trained mother leader (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 3/31/2023 Page 5 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Value 0.00 -- 0.00 200.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of elected female mother leader among beneficiaries - trained on accompanying measures and validated with certificate and membership card. This is a gender gap indicator. Mother leaders are elected Comments: among beneficiaries by their peers to serve as direct links with project staff and to contribute to accompanying measures delivery and project operations at the community level. IN01258984 ►Youth (18-34) among recipients of the resilience and economic opportunities interventions (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 7,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of youth (18-34) recipients of the resilience and economic opportunity program (livelihood support Comments: and income generating activities, cash for work for resilience) IN01258985 ►Area re/afforested or rehabilitated through cash for work for resilience (Hectare(Ha)) (Hectare(Ha), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 150.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Area re/afforested or rehabilitated through cash for work for resilience (Hectare(Ha)). This is climate Comments: change indicator. IN01258986 ►Households recipients benefiting from accompanying measure related to human capital (Number) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 12,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of households (social cash transfer, beneficiaries of income generating activities, cash for work Comments: for resilience, exit program) benefiting from accompanying measures related to human capital (education, nutrition, health, early childhood development, wash) IN01258987 ►Households having benefited from training on vegetable gardening (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 7,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Number of households beneficiary of livelihood income generating activities, cash for work for resilience, exit program having participated in training on vegetable gardening. This is a natural space in the village Comments: where households plant fruit and vegetables to promote varied and nutritious diet, address food insecurity, etc. This is climate change indicator. Strengthening safety net coordination, project management, monitoring, and evaluation 3/31/2023 Page 6 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) IN01258966 ►Institutional framework: number of households registered in the beneficiary registry (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 20,000.00 -- 30,000.00 40,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 This indicator reflects the enhancement of the social safety net system: number of households beneficiary Comments: of social safety net programs in Comoros and registered in the beneficiary registry IN01258972 ►Percentage of complaints received and resolved within 18 days (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 90.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Percentage of Registered complaints that have been addressed and resolved within 18-days. This is a Comments: citizen engagement indicator. IN01258974 ►Number of Periodic Report on the Grievance Redress Mechanism (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 4.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 This indicator measure the ability of the project to manage and treat grievance related to the project. Comments: Number of grievance mechanism reports elaborated by the UGP - FSS. This is a Citizen Engagement Indicator IN01258976 ►Number Beneficiaries' feedback related to the project (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 4.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 This indicator measure the satisfaction of beneficiaries related to project activities and involvement. Comments: Number of Suivi Evaluation Communautaire (SECAP) reports written and published under the project - This is a Citizen Engagement Indicator IN01258978 ►Audits implemented (number) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 3.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 Comments: Number of audits (external financial audits and technical audits) carried out and with reports IN01258980 3/31/2023 Page 7 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) ►Operational costs of the project (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 15.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 This indicator tracks the efficiency of implementing the safety net programs: ratio of operating expenses Comments: including staff cost to total project budget IN01258982 ►Recipients receiving their payment through mobile money (number) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10,000.00 Date 01-Mar-2023 -- 28-Feb-2023 01-Jun-2027 Number of recipients (social cash transfer, livelihood support, cash for work for resilience, exit program) Comments: receiving their payment directly through mobile phone by local mobile network operator Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P179291 IDA-E1530 Effective USD 30.00 30.00 0.00 0.00 31.04 0% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P179291 IDA-E1530 Effective 22-Dec-2022 23-Dec-2022 14-Feb-2023 30-Jun-2027 30-Jun-2027 Cumulative Disbursements 3/31/2023 Page 8 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project (P179291) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 3/31/2023 Page 9 of 9