The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC | Lao People's Democratic Republic | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing (IPF) | FY 2023 | Seq No: 2 | Archived on 14-May-2024 | Implementing Agencies: Poverty Reduction Fund - Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 1. OBJECTIVE 1.1 Development Objective Original Development Objective (Approved as part of Approval package on 14-Jun-2023) To improve rural livelihoods and consumption of diverse foods for targeted vulnerable communities, and to respond promptly and effectively in case of Eligible Crisis or Emergency. Has the Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No 2. COMPONENTS Name Local Economic Development and Community Capacity Strengthening:(Cost 27,600,000.00) Community Livelihoods Enhancement:(Cost 7,950,000.00) Community Nutrition Interventions:(Cost 4,750,000.00) Project Management, Capacity Building and Monitoring and Evaluation:(Cost 4,700,000.00) Contingent Emergency Response:(Cost 0.00) 3. OVERALL RATINGS Name Previous Current Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate May 14, 2024 Page 1 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) 4. KEY ISSUES & STATUS 4.1 Implementation Status and Key Decisions The project was officially launched during an event on March 26, 2024 in Vientiane. The project has become effective on OCtober 17, 2023. The project implementation has begin with delays, and is expected to accelerate in the second half of 2024. 5. SYSTEMATIC OPERATIONS RISK-RATING TOOL Rating at Approval Last Approved Rating Risk Category Approval Package - ISR Seq. 01 - 13 Oct Proposed Rating 15 Jun 2023 2023 Political and Governance Moderate Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic Substantial Substantial Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Moderate Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary Substantial Substantial Substantial Environment and Social Moderate Moderate Moderate Stakeholders Moderate Moderate Moderate Other Moderate Moderate Moderate Overall Moderate Moderate Moderate May 14, 2024 Page 2 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) 6. RESULTS 6.1 PDO Indicators by PDO Outcomes To improve rural livelihoods and consumption of diverse foods for targeted vulnerable communities Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Percentage of Income 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 50.00 Dec/2027 Generating Activities (IGAs) Comments on It captures the percentage of IGAs implemented by SHGs’ members that are sustainable 1 implemented that are viable achieving targets years after financing. An IGA is defined as viable when it generates a gross operating profit. 1 year after having IGAs are undertaken by members of SHGs and PGs. The indicator will concern more type II and benefitted from financing III villages. under the project (Percentage) 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 female-owned Comments on See parent indicator. The indicator measures the share of women-owned IGAs viable 1 year (Percentage) achieving targets after project benefits. It aims to ensure that women-owned and men-owned IGAs are equally likely to be viable. 0.00 0.00 50.00 non-Lao-Tai-owned Comments on See parent indicator. The indicator measures the share of non-Lao-Tai-owned IGAs viable 1 (Percentage) achieving targets year after project benefits. It aims to ensure that non-Lao-Tai-owned and Lao-Tai-owned IGAs are equally likely to be viable. Number of project 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 13,140.00 Dec/2027 beneficiary households that Comments on It captures the number of project beneficiary households that have at least one additional have at least one additional achieving targets income from project activities. It helps assess the diversification of income of the household, source of income from which will contribute to its resilience. Additional sources of income includ cash for work (at project activities (Number) least 1 week), households in viable IGAs and PGs. The project will pay particular attention to May 14, 2024 Page 3 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) analyzing data per type of activity such as crop, livestock, processing, inputs production and non-agricultural activities. 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 of which female Comments on See parent indicator. It aims to ensure female-headed households are as likely to access an headed (Percentage) achieving targets additional source of income. The target is set based on average share of female-headed households. 0.00 0.00 75.00 of which non-Lao-Tai Comments on See parent indicator. It aims to ensure non-Lao-Tai households are as likely to access (Percentage) achieving targets additional income sources as Lao-Tai households by year 4 of the project, with measures to ensure inclusion improving over time. Percentage change in travel 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 50.00 Dec/2027 time to drinking water, Comments on It assesses the percentage change in the estimated motorcycle travel time (in terms of agricultural areas, markets, achieving targets minutes) from the village center to access to the nearest agricultural areas, markets, agricultural storages, drying agricultural storages, drying platforms and processing sites. The assessment of the time travel platform and processing site will be tailored to the type of infrastructures in the M&E manual. areas. (Percentage) Children 6–23 months from 21.00 Jun/2023 21.00 15-Sep-2023 33.00 Dec/2027 community nutrition groups Comments on It captures the change in children (aged 6 to 23 months) with minimum dietary diversity households consuming foods achieving targets among beneficiaries of CNGs. The minimum food diversity is defined by a consumption of at from five out of eight least 5 out of the 8 food groups (using a classification of food groups based on international recommended food groups recommendations) during the 24 hours preceding the time of interview. The baseline is (Percentage) derived from the nutrition convergence phase I midline survey (December 2022). 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 216,000.00 Dec/2027 Total direct beneficiaries Comments on It assesses the extent to which the project is reaching out beneficiaries and particularly (Number) achieving targets excluded groups such as women and ethnic minorities. The project will pay particular attention to double counting. of which female 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 May 14, 2024 Page 4 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) (Percentage) Comments on see parent indicator achieving targets 0.00 0.00 75.00 of which non-Lao-Tai Comments on see parent indicator (Percentage) achieving targets 6.2 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Local Economic Development and Community Capacity Strengthening Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Number of key community 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 01-Apr-2024 0.00 01-Apr-2024 4,050.00 Dec/2027 members graduating from Comments on It assesses the improved skills in leadership and empowerment developed across villages, the CLD transformative achieving targets among key community members and women in decision-making roles. grassroot leadership training (Number) 0.00 0.00 0.00 60.00 of which female Comments on see parent indicator (Percentage) achieving targets 0.00 0.00 75.00 of which non-Lao-Tai Comments on see parent indicator (Number) achieving targets Percentage of beneficiaries 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 80.00 Dec/2027 who feel village development Comments on This indicator assesses the quality of community participation and ownership of the planning reflected their achieving targets investments identified in the local development plans. This indicator is also used to measure needs (Percentage) progress on the gender gap in terms of women participation in local decision-making. May 14, 2024 Page 5 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) 0.00 0.00 80.00 female (Percentage) Comments on see parent indicator achieving targets 0.00 0.00 0.00 80.00 non-Lao-Tai Comments on see parent indicator (Percentage) achieving targets Percentage of audited 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 80.00 Dec/2027 climate resilient Comments on It measures the quality of climate resilience infrastructures and if they are conforming to infrastructures judged by the achieving targets disaster risk reduction and technical specifications for each type of infrastructure, it will have auditors as conforming to a specific focus on resilience. Independent technical audits will be conducted regularly to disaster risk reduction assess this indicator. Infrastructures are considered climate resilient when it includes site risk procedures and technical assessment, detailed siting, enhanced technical standards mitigating impact from rainstorms, specifications (Percentage) prior definition of O&M and two-way early warning in the event of a disaster. Percentage of functional 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 80.00 Dec/2027 climate-resilient Comments on It assesses the sustainability of completed infrastructures, as communities’ maintenance infrastructures with achieving targets activities are essential for the resilience of infrastructures. Checklist defining required communities conducting maintenance activities and frequencies will be developed per type of infrastructure in the regularly maintenance PIM. activities (Percentage) Community Livelihoods Enhancement Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Percentage of Village Self- 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 70.00 Dec/2027 Help Group Management Comments on It assesses the percentage of female beneficiaries in management/leadership position in Committee members who achieving targets village group management committee. It measures progress on gender gap on women are female (Percentage) leadership. Total amount of SHGs savings 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 01-Apr-2024 0.00 01-Apr-2024 117,000.00 Dec/2027 May 14, 2024 Page 6 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) mobilized (Amount(USD)) Comments on It measures the capacity of SHGs at mobilizing savings. Savings are regularly recorded by SHGs achieving targets during their meetings. Estimates in USD are based on exchange rate at time of project approval. 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 18,360.00 Dec/2027 Number of individuals using Comments on It measures the number of SHGs members that have managed to obtain small loans from their loans from SHGs (Number) achieving targets SHGs revolving fund. The project will pay particular attention to avoid double counting of individuals. 0.00 0.00 0.00 15,600.00 of which female Comments on see parent indicator (Number) achieving targets 0.00 0.00 0.00 13,770.00 of which non-Lao-Tai Comments on see parent indicator (Number) achieving targets 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 01-Apr-2024 0.00 01-Apr-2024 12,960.00 Dec/2027 Number of producers Comments on It refers to a change of practice that was introduced/promoted by the project. It is a change in adopting improved and/or achieving targets practices from current use. Climate-smart agriculture is an integrated approach to managing climate smart agricultural landscapes--cropland livestock forests and fisheries--that address the interlinked challenges of and livestock practices food security and climate change. The list of climate smart agricultural and livestock practices (Number) to be disseminated will be detailed in the PIM. 0.00 0.00 0.00 11,010.00 of which female Comments on see parent indicator (Number) achieving targets 0.00 0.00 9,720.00 of which non Lao-Tai Comments on see parent indicator (Number) achieving targets Number of households 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 80.00 Dec/2027 May 14, 2024 Page 7 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) specializing in production of Comments on It measures the contribution to support low external input sustainable agriculture. This would local inputs (Number) achieving targets include seedlings, seeds and young animals for sale (piglets/chicks) in project villages Community Nutrition Interventions Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Total volume of home-made 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 30,780.00 Dec/2027 nutrient powders to enhance Comments on It assesses the volume of food processed by nutrition groups using the newly learned diets in the 1,000-day achieving targets practices. Food processed is defined as pre-mix or fish powder or leaf powder. window produced (in kgs) (Number) Number of nutrition videos 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 01-Apr-2024 0.00 01-Apr-2024 7,560.00 Dec/2027 produced by women-led CNG Comments on It is a proxy indicator to measure the increased knowledge and awareness of beneficiaries. It and disseminated for peer achieving targets will help measure the engagement and ownership of community in terms of nutrition capacity learning (Number) building activities and knowledge dissemination. Percentage of targeted 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 01-Apr-2024 0.00 01-Apr-2024 70.00 Dec/2027 nutrition households growing Comments on It assesses the level of cropping diversity of nutrition households benefiting from nutrition at least 3 of the projects achieving targets garden activities. The list of nutritious crops will added in the PIM and it is expected that recommended crops beneficiaries should grow at least 3 of the crops from this list to be accounted for this (Percentage) indicator. Percentage of convergence 0.00 Sep/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 70.00 Dec/2027 villages conducting Comments on This indicator captures the percentage of community nutrition meetings informed by CSCs in community nutrition achieving targets selected convergence districts. CSCs are provided by HANSA2/RRPM2 to the CLEAR team. meetings informed by children scorecards twice a year (Percentage) Project Management, Capacity Building and Monitoring and Evaluation Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year May 14, 2024 Page 8 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) Percentage of registered 0.00 Jun/2023 0.00 15-Sep-2023 85.00 Dec/2027 grievances that are Comments on It assesses the efficiency of the project at addressing grievances. Grievances are received addressed timely according achieving targets through messages on paper, phone/text and during meetings. to agreed procedures (Percentage) May 14, 2024 Page 9 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) 7. DATA ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 7.1 Cumulative Disbursements 7.2 Disbursements (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed IDA-73590 Effective 10.80 10.80 0.00 5.00 5.80 46.30% IDA-73580 Effective 34.20 34.20 0.00 0.00 33.30 0% 7.3 Key Dates (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Signing Effectiveness Orig. Closing Rev. Closing IDA-73580 Effective 15-Jun-2023 19-Jul-2023 17-Oct-2023 31-Dec-2027 31-Dec-2027 May 14, 2024 Page 10 of 11 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Community Livelihood Enhancement And Resilience (P178545) IDA-73590 Effective 15-Jun-2023 19-Jul-2023 17-Oct-2023 31-Dec-2027 31-Dec-2027 8. KEY DATES Key Events Planned Actual Approval 15-Jun-2023 15-Jun-2023 Effectiveness 17-Oct-2023 17-Oct-2023 Mid-Term Review No. 01 01-Jul-2025 Operation Closing/Cancellation 31-Dec-2027 9. RESTRUCTURING HISTORY 10. ASSOCIATED OPERATION(S) There are no associated operations May 14, 2024 Page 11 of 11