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INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET 
CONCEPT STAGE 
Report No.:  AC4911 
 
Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 02/19/2010 
 
I.  BASIC INFORMATION 
 
A.  Basic Project Data 
 
Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of 
Project ID: P115318 
Project Name: Support to Street Children and Vulnerable Groups 
Task Team Leader: Anne Mossige 
Estimated Appraisal Date: March 19, 2010 
Estimated Board Date: May 27, 2010 
Managing Unit: AFTSP 
Lending Instrument: Specific Investment 
Loan 
Sector: Other social services (100%) 
Theme: Social safety nets (50%);Gender (25%);Vulnerability assessment and monitoring 
(25%) 
IBRD Amount (US$m.): 
0.00 
IDA Amount (US$m.): 
5.00 
GEF Amount (US$m.): 
0.00 
PCF Amount (US$m.): 
0.00 
Other financing amounts by source:  
 BORROWER/RECIPIENT 
0.00 
 Financing 
Gap 
0.00
0.00 
B.  Project Objectives [from section 2 of PCN] 
The proposed development objective is to provide improved coverage and quality of services for 
street children, in particular those targeting street girls focusing on family- and socio-economic 
reintegration.   
 
C.  Project Description [from section 3 of PCN] 
The proposed project would pilot approaches to prevent "streetism", protect street children and 
reintegrate them into their families and communities. The proposed project would have the 
following three components:  
 
Component A: Assistance. Improve coverage and quality of basic services adapted to the 
special circumstances of street girls ($2.5 million).  This component has short-term objectives 
(immediate protection and survival) as well as more medium-term objectives (family 
reintegration, obtaining an education certificate).  Services will include shelter, food, health care 
education, skills training, and family reintegration.  
 
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Component B:  Prevention. Strengthen families and communities to diminish the flow of 
children arriving in the streets ($1 million).  This component would build on the experiences in 
community-based prevention activities both in DRC and internationally. The approach would 
include (i) community awareness campaigns and other IEC activities on topics such as child 
rights and protection, parental responsibility, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, human 
rights,  and the challenges of witchcraft and (ii) community mobilization including organization 
and support of child protection committees and of volunteer family helpers.  
 
Component C: Capacity building, coordination and management ($1.5 million). This 
component would strengthen MINAS' capacity to develop norms and standards for activities 
targeting street children, coordinate the interventions of different actors, and monitor and 
evaluate them. When relevant, capacity building would include staff of other ministries and 
service providers (e.g., NGOs) as well.  A small PIU would also be financed within the Social 
Fund of DRC (FSRDC) to take advantage of existing capacity to implement Bank-finance 
projects and work through NGOs.   
 
D.  Project location (if known) 
Kinshasa, DRC   
 
E.  Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies [from PCN] 
The implementing agency has experience with World Bank safeguard procedures as it is 
implementing the Emergency Social Action Project.   
 
F.  Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists 
Mr Harvey D. Van Veldhuizen (MIGEP) 
 
II.  SAFEGUARD POLICIES THAT MIGHT APPLY 
Safeguard Policies Triggered
 
Yes No TBD 
Environmental Assessment (OP/BP 4.01) 
 X  
Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) 
 X  
Forests (OP/BP 4.36) 
 X  
Pest Management (OP 4.09) 
 X  
Physical Cultural Resources (OP/BP 4.11) 
 X  
Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10) 
 X  
Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) 
 X  
Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) 
 X  
Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP
 
7.50) 
 X  
Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP 7.60) 
 X  
Environmental Category:
 
C
-
Not Required 
 
III.  SAFEGUARD PREPARATION PLAN 
 
A.  Target date for the Quality Enhancement Review (QER), at which time the PAD-stage ISDS 
would be prepared:  01/27/2010 
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B.  For simple projects that will not require a QER, the target date for preparing the PAD-stage 
ISDS:  N/A 
 
C.  Time frame for launching and completing the safeguard-related studies that may be needed.  
The specific studies and their timing
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should be specified in the PAD-stage ISDS. 
This project will be category C and will therefore not need safeguard studies.   
 
IV.  APPROVALS 
 
Signed and submitted by: 
 
Task Team Leader: 
Ms Anne Mossige 
12/30/2009 
Approved by: 
 
Regional Safeguards Coordinator: 
Ms Zarafshan H. Khawaja 
12/03/2009 
Comments:  No SGP specialist required if project remains as defined in PCN and ISDS. Later, should 
project involve land acquisition, construction, or potential environmental or social impacts, consultant 
ASPEN 
Sector Manager: 
Mr Yasser Aabdel-Aleem Awny El-Gammal 
02/18/2010 
Comments:   
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Reminder: The Bank's Disclosure Policy requires that safeguard-related documents be disclosed before appraisal (i) at the 
InfoShop and (ii) in-country, at publicly accessible locations and in a form and language that are accessible to potentially affected 
persons.
 
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