The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) Local Government Development Program (P127543) AFRICA | Mauritania | Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2013 | Seq No: 12 | ARCHIVED on 25-Jun-2019 | ISR37625 | Implementing Agencies: Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Development Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 18-Jun-2013 Effectiveness Date: 24-Feb-2014 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 22-Sep-2016 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 07-Nov-2016 Original Closing Date: 30-Jun-2019 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2019 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to strengthen the institutional performance of Mauritania's targeted local governments in order to improve their capacity to deliver services. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Component 1: Conditional Performance Grants for Local Governments (US$70 million – GoM US$ 42 million, IDA US$15 million and EU US$1 3 million):(Cost $70.00 M) Component 2: Targeted Capacity Support to Targeted Local Governments, Deconcentrated and Central Institutions and Agencies (US$19 mi llion – GoM US$ 4 million, IDA US$6 million and EU US$9 million)):(Cost $19.00 M) Component 3 – Project Management Support and Monitoring and Evaluation (US$ 11.3 million – GoM US$6 million, IDA US$2.3 million and EU US$3 million)):(Cost $11.30 M) Unallocated:(Cost $1.70 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions The conditional grant component keeps progressing well and more than 520 sub-projects have been completed. 384 of them were already operational as of March 31, 2019, leading to the great satisfaction of the population, parents, women, men, and youth, the latest who expressed their strong appreciation for the many sport fields already in use. All major studies are now completed, contributing to the general decentralization 6/25/2019 Page 1 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) agenda and aimed at informing future reforms. All eligible communes expressed their strong appreciation on the project during the closing workshop organized on May 14-15, 2019, and asked for a continuation of the government's efforts towards deeper decentralization of resources. Results achieved so far include: (i) 78% of participating LGs met the Performance target of 75 points, which shows the effective impact of capacity building of the project; (ii) 781,000 people benefiting from the project compared to the end of project target of 456,000; and (iii) 450,000 person-days employment created under LG’s sub-projects. This had led to the completion of about 520 sub-projects (essentially classrooms and health centers, as well as markets) and 40 additional sub-projects are currently under construction. The project will close on June 30, 2019. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Substantial Substantial Macroeconomic -- Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies -- Substantial Substantial Technical Design of Project or Program -- High High Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- High High Fiduciary -- Substantial Substantial Environment and Social -- Substantial Substantial Stakeholders -- High High Other -- Low Low Overall -- Substantial Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Strengthen the institutional performance of Mauritania's targeted local governments IN00716394 ►Participating LGs scoring at least 75 of 100 points in the annual performance assessment (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 77.00 77.00 75.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 30-Nov-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Dec-2018 10 communes could not be evaluated due to the absence of the Mayor in the election period. Hence the Comments: result is 77% of the communes, so the target can be considered met. IN00716396 ►Participating LGs meeting the Minimum Conditions for access to the Conditional Performance Grant (Number, Custom) 6/25/2019 Page 2 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 91.00 91.00 100.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 30-Nov-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Dec-2018 Only 87 communes could be evaluated this final evaluation round because of the election period. And out those 87, 5 communes had failed to approve their budget in 2017 also because of the elections with Comments: political tensions in their municipal committee. Hence it 91% of the communes who met the Minimum Conditions for access to the Conditional Performance Grant. IN00716398 ►Number of agencies achieving at least 70% of their performance targets as per the contracts agreed with the PCU (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 31-Mar-2018 17-May-2019 31-Dec-2018 Improve their capacity to deliver services IN00716395 ►Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 711,289.00 781,549.00 456,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 The target was established at project preparation when the types of infrastructures were not entirely known yet. The access catchment area is large for health centers (88), markets (53) and other funded Comments: infrastructures, which explains that mechanically the number of beneficiaries is approaching the entire population of those 100 communes, which is about 1.3 million. IN00716397 Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 52.00 52.00 51.00 IN00716399 ►Financed subprojects functioning and delivering services to communities one year after completion (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 70.00 80.00 90.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 31-Mar-2018 29-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1: Conditional Performance Grants for Local Governments (US$70 million – GoM US$ 42 million, IDA US$15 million and EU US$1 3 million) IN00716400 6/25/2019 Page 3 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) ►Number of person-days employment created under LG's sub-projects (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 449,000.00 450,800.00 800,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 The target, established at the Mid Term Review, was based on the original investment envelop for Comments: infrastructures, which was about $70 million, while the final amount closer to $38 million. IN00716402 ►Disaggregated list of investments by type and sector (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 563.00 563.00 tbm Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 17-May-2019 31-Dec-2018 Due to the project envelop reduction and LG capacity saturation for sub-project implementation, some Comments: sub-projects that were still at the planning stage were cancelled. Component 2: Targeted Capacity Support to Targeted Local Governments, Deconcentrated and Central Institutions and Agencies (US$19 mi llion – GoM US$ 4 million, IDA US$6 million and EU US$9 million)) IN00716401 ►Timely publication of indicative allocation of Conditional Performance Grants to LGs (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value Jun 19,2013 October 30, 2017 October 30, 2017 October 1, 2017 Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 28-Sep-2018 31-Dec-2018 Due to the restructuring of the project (envelop reduction of co-financers EU and GoM), there was delay in Comments: the publication of the 2018 allocations. IN00716403 ►Participating LGs under the project that produce timely and acceptable final accounts at the end of FY (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 91.00 91.00 100.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 30-Nov-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Dec-2018 Only 87 communes could be evaluated this final evaluation round because of the election period. And out those 87, 5 communes had failed to approve their budget in 2017 also because of the elections with Comments: political tensions in their municipal committee. Hence it is 91% of the communes who produced timely and acceptable final accounts. IN00716404 ►Participating LGs that receive audits that are either unqualified or if qualified only with minor comments (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 93.00 93.00 100.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 30-Nov-2018 30-Nov-2018 31-Dec-2018 6/25/2019 Page 4 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) Annual audits are done on a rolling basis. In 2018, 37 communes out of 40 (or 93%) received audits that Comments: are either unqualified or if qualified only with minor comments. IN00716405 ►Number of mobile teams achieving at least 90% of their performance targets per the contracts agreed with the PCU (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 17-May-2019 31-Dec-2018 IN00716406 ►Number of persons trained (disaggregated by gender) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1,312.00 1,317.00 2,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2013 28-Sep-2018 29-Mar-2019 31-Dec-2018 IN00716407 Number of persons trained, of which women (%) (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 15.00 15.00 30.00 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P127543 IDA-52720 Effective USD 5.00 5.00 0.00 4.83 0.01 100% P127543 IDA-H8610 Effective USD 20.00 20.00 0.00 18.41 0.42 98% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P127543 IDA-52720 Effective 18-Jun-2013 24-Jun-2013 24-Feb-2014 30-Jun-2019 30-Jun-2019 P127543 IDA-H8610 Effective 18-Jun-2013 24-Jun-2013 24-Feb-2014 30-Jun-2019 30-Jun-2019 Cumulative Disbursements 6/25/2019 Page 5 of 6 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Local Government Development Program (P127543) Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 10-Apr-2017 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 6/25/2019 Page 6 of 6