GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) 46810 Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date Board Approved Tax on food Prices of rice, sugar, cooking oil, wheat flour and reduced, powder milk have been reduced by 9%. Fiscal 1 Djibouti 5 5 Disbursed $4 million DPO improved social space has been created to enable expansion of protection food aid programs, and support existing social targeting assistance and food security programs. The $2.45 million disbursed has supported school feeding programs targeted to pre-school and primary school children, provided supplemental Infrastructure, feeding (rations for pregnant and lactating women 2 Liberia 10 10 Disbursed $2.45 seeds, school attending clinics and hospitals) and supported a million IL feeding, cash-for-work program. Monthly distributions of 300 nutrition ­ 400 tons of food targeting more than 60,000 school children in five counties in South East Liberia started at the beginning of the school year in October. The grant has helped maintain macroeconomic and social stability by ensuring availability of resources for the Govt. to continue to provide critical social and infrastructure services, especially for the poor. 3 Haiti 10 10 Disbursed $10 Budget In addition, the Bank has supported extension of a million DPO support school feeding program under the on-going Education for All Project. School feeding is being provided for 15,000 children over the summer break and an additional 15,000 children in the new school year which started in September '08. The grant has supported temporary elimination of 4 Madagascar 10 10 Disbursed $10 Budget the VAT on rice. Rice price increases have been million DPO support slowing down in part due to the temporary elimination of the VAT on rice. The grant has supported suspension of custom Import tariffs duties and domestic transaction taxes on 13 basic 5 Burundi 10 10 Disbursed $10 food items. This has helped create fiscal space for million DPO reduced, school feeding strengthening food security and school feeding programs. About 60 additional primary schools will benefit from the school feeding programs and an 1 GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date estimated 120,000 additional hot meals will be distributed. Grant support has partially compensated for the lost revenues resulting from reduced tariffs on food and fuel imports. The fiscal space created 3 3 Disbursed $3 Import tariffs will help provide food to more than 20,000 people, million DPO reduced which includes school children and patients (lactating mothers and children under the age of five) in district hospitals and community health centers that receive government-provided meals. Grant support has been provided for a cash-for- work program. Grant financing is expected to 6 Sierra Leone generate at least 849,000 person-days of employment including at least 254,000 employment-days for women. To date, 119 cash- for-work projects have been approved, most 4 4 Disbursed $1.4 involving small road works (and drainage), with an million IL Safety nets average of 30-40 beneficiaries per project. First tranche payments have been made to 73 projects. The program is being implemented in seven districts (Bo, Western rural and urban, Bombali, Kono, Port Loko and Moyamba) which were selected based on the WFP Livelihoods and Vulnerability Mapping. Grant support is filling a financing gap for bulk fertilizer purchase and supporting development of 7 Rwanda 10 10 Disbursed $10 private sector-friendly auction and voucher million DPO Fertilizers distribution schemes. Vouchers for purchasing fertilizers have been distributed to farmers ahead of the fall planting season. 350 tons of seed and 204 tons of fertilizer (mono- ammonium phosphate) have been supplied to 8 Kyrgyz Disbursed $2.32 Safety nets, around 1000 farmers through 32 community seed Republic 10 10 million 2ILs seeds, nutrition funds focusing on winter wheat. Delivery of cash transfer top-ups to about 430,000 beneficiaries started in early November. Micronutrient 2 GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date supplements in the form of premix (constituting vitamins B1, B2, B3 and folic acid) and vitamin A supplements will be delivered through UNICEF starting in December 2008. Vitamin A supplements will be provided to around 154,000 postpartum women and 550,000 children under age 5. Nutrition education activities, including dissemination of nutrition-related information to mothers started in November 2008. Grant support has been used for procurement of micronutrient supplements, food packages and growth monitoring equipment for pregnant and breastfeeding women attending primary health care facilities in the regions of Khatlon and Soghd. Disbursed $0.8 Nutrition training is being delivered to 432 doctors 9 Tajikistan 9 9 million 2 ILs Nutrition, seeds and nurses. Food packages will be provided to approximately 60,000 women attending health facilities for prenatal care, delivery or child vaccinations. Distribution of high quality winter wheat planting seed to 70,000 households has been completed. Approximately 1,200 tons of fertilizer has been procured for distribution for the spring 2009 winter wheat crop. Grant will fund implementation of community- 10 Yemen 10 10 Disbursed $2 million IL Safety nets based labor-intensive public works projects that will benefit 8,000­10,000 households. Grant support is providing cash transfers to institutions (orphanages, poor children in boarding Safety nets, schools and special education schools, prisons, 11 Moldova 7 7 Disbursed $2 kindergartens, health facilities or social service million IL nutritional supplements institutions) that target vulnerable groups. Grant will also provide food and nutritional supplements for around 70,000 pregnant/lactating women and 75,000 children under the age of three. 3 GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date Grant support will be used to purchase 2,185 metric tons of food (including related Central School feeding, transportation and operational costs) in order to 12 African 7 7 Disbursed $3.25 IL inputs, support the school feeding program implemented Republic million extension, infrastructure by WFP. The school year started on October 13 and this disbursement is on time to replenish WFP stock for the current school year. Grant support has been used for the procurement Inputs, of inputs which will be distributed through existing 13 Somalia 7 7 Disbursed $4.34 million IL irrigation, NGOs or NGO-initiated community organizations. livestock Detailed workplans for the three regions and for the different sub-components have been finalized. The $2.5 million disbursed for budget support provided the authorities with needed fiscal space to compensate for the lost revenues resulting from the temporary customs duties reduction on rice imports. An additional $2 million of grant support has been disbursed for the Emergency Agricultural Productivity Support project which will expand a successful farmer seed multiplication Import tariffs network producing 2000 tons of certified seed 14 Guinea 10 10 Disbursed $5.75 2 ILs & during the current cropping season and provide million DPO red., safety nets, inputs input packages and technical assistance to 70,000 smallholders to increase their productivity during the dry season and 2009/10 cropping season. A further $1.25 million has been disbursed to an emergency labor intensive urban public works program that is expected to provide approximately 5300 jobs to unskilled workers and direct and indirect benefits to a total population of around 300,000 people in 40 of the of the poorest neighborhoods in Conakry. The IDA credit is providing the Government with 15 Bangladesh 130 130 Fully disbursed Budget needed fiscal space to absorb the pressure from 82.7 million SDR DPO support the expansion of food-based safety nets and building up of food stocks. It is also helping 4 GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date mitigate the impact of food price increases, and contributing to maintaining core service delivery to vulnerable groups. Grant support is being used for rehabilitating small-scale irrigation projects in 131 communities. 16 Afghanistan 8 8 Disbursed $5 million IL Irrigation The rehabilitated irrigation schemes will enable expansion in the area planted with wheat and other cereals. 17 Honduras 10 10 Full disbursement Budget by end December DPO Support 18 Niger 7 7 Disbursement in December IL Fertilizers 19 Guinea- Disbursement in Safety nets, Bissau 5 5 December IL inputs 20 Nepal 5 31 36 Disbursement by Seeds, fertilizer early January IL and food 21 Southern Disbursement in Seeds and Sudan 5 5 December IL other inputs 22 Togo 7 7 Disbursement by Safety nets, ag. end-December IL production 23 Mozambique 10 10 20 Disbursement by end December DPO Budget support 24 Benin 9 9 Disbursement by end-December IL Fertilizer 25 West Bank Disbursement by and Gaza 5 5 end-January IL Safety nets TOTAL 173 191 364 In Comment Period with Board 1 Philippines 200 200 12/10/2008 DPO Social protection 2 Ethiopia 275 275 12/10/2008 IL Fertilizer 5 GFRP: SUMMARY PROJECT STATUS REPORT (December 4, 2008) Financing Source ($ million) FPCR Type of Country TF* IDA IBRD Total Status Operation Activity Results to Date 3 Madagascar 12 12 12/16/2008* IL Safety nets TOTAL 287 200 487 Upcoming RVP Approvals 3 3 Mid December IL Seeds 1 Laos 2 2 End December IL Safety-nets 2 Mali 5 5 End December DPO Budget support 7 7 Mid December IL School feeding, 3 Nicaragua seeds 10 10 February 2009 IL Seeds Seeds, risk 4 Comoros 1 1 January 2009 IL management, access to credit 5 Cambodia 10 10 March 2009 DPO Budget support 6 Haiti 7 7 May 2009 IL Support for small farmers Inputs, safety 7 Mauritania 9 9 TBD IL nets, irrigation, livestock TOTAL 27 27 54 Grand Total GFRP 200 505 200 905 FPCR TF refers to Food Price Crisis Response Trust Fund (funded from Bank surplus) * This USD 12 million GFRP component is part of a larger Emergency Food Security and Reconstruction Project for Madagascar that will be discussed at the Board on December 16, 2008. RRC Decision meeting was held on August 11, 2008, but Project preparation has been put on hold following the political crisis in Mauritania Prepared by GFRP Secretariat [Saswati Bora (88657), Pauline Zwaans (80783), Mona Sur (82704), Chris Delgado (89455)] 12/04/2008 1:20 PM 6