Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) AFRICA | South Sudan | Poverty and Equity Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2015 | Seq No: 8 | ARCHIVED on 29-Jun-2018 | ISR33372 | Implementing Agencies: Government of South Sudan, Aid Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:16-Jul-2014 Effectiveness Date:13-Feb-2015 Planned Mid Term Review Date:30-Nov-2017 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:05-Jul-2017 Original Closing Date:30-Jun-2020 Revised Closing Date:30-Jun-2020 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of statistics producers in South Sudan to produce and disseminate official statistics. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Legal Reforms and Institutional Development:(Cost $0.34 M) Human Resource Development and Training:(Cost $0.86 M) Information and Communication Technology and Statistical Infrastructure Development:(Cost $1.20 M) Data Development and Dissemination:(Cost $4.70 M) Project Management:(Cost $1.90 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Satisfactory  Satisfactory 6/29/2018 Page 1 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) Overall Risk Rating  High  High Implementation Status and Key Decisions The Statistical Capacity Building project, effective since March 2015, is funded by a US$ 9 million IDA grant and has a duration of 5 years until 2020. The project is implemented by South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The project development objective (PDO is to strengthen the capacity of statistics producers in South Sudan to produce and disseminate official statistics. The project design is based on the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS). It aims to support the production and dissemination of the Statistics in South Sudan by a comprehensive approach. The ISR mission in February 2018 in Juba assessed the progress of the project as overall satisfactory. Despite the continued volatile situation in South Sudan, project activities are on track. NBS management has held several meetings with the Parliamentary Committee responsible for Statistics to revise the Statistics Bill. The revised Bill was re-submitted to Parliament, and was planned to be scheduled for the second reading. The bill is expected to pass before end June 2018. Draft Statistics Regulations are currently being reviewed to align with the revised Bill. The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has been produced. The NSDS activities have been successful in improving collaboration and data sharing among NBS and MDAs. The user satisfaction survey was implemented in May-June 2017, and the final report is under preparation. A similar survey will be conducted in the last year of the project to compare results. The NBS Library has been renovated and equipped with new furniture, IT equipment and books. A librarian has been assigned and the library was opened to the public in August 2017 (four months ahead of schedule). Already 75 percent of planned trainings were implemented (this is about 10 percentage points above the target in the Results Framework). NBS has just published a compendium of statistical concepts, definitions and standards. The Crisis Recovery Survey was conducted between May and July 2017, while the Integrated Business Survey was delayed but expected to be in the field by December 2018. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  High  High Macroeconomic  --  High  High Sector Strategies and Policies  --  Moderate  Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program  --  Moderate  Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability  --  High  High Fiduciary  --  High  High Environment and Social  --  Low  Low Stakeholders  --  Moderate  Moderate Other  --  --  -- Overall  --  High  High Results Project Development Objective Indicators 6/29/2018 Page 2 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) PHINDPDOTBL  Overall Statistical Capacity Score (SCI) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 26.00 37.80 43.00 44.00 Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 PHINDPDOTBL  Survey and Census Capacity Score (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 47.50 47.50 47.50 52.30 Date 18-Mar-2015 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators PHINDIRITBL  Legal framework for official statistics in South Sudan (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Revised Statistics Act Draft NBS is operating under submitted to Revised Statistics Act regulations SSCCSE Act of 2011, Value Parliament and developed and bill developed which is currently being regulations ready for drafted ready for revised adoption. adoption Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 6/29/2018 Page 3 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) PHINDIRITBL  NBS organizational structure, HR policy and scheme of service (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Adoption of new New organogram institutional Organizational proposed. New HR policy, organogram and Change management and HR Value scheme of service and change management strategy developed and restructuring change management that are independent of adopted complete strategy not yet developed. the passing of the Statistics Act. Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 PHINDIRITBL  Training Plan Implementation (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 47.00 60.00 100.00 Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 PHINDIRITBL  Micro-data made available online through the revived micro-data library (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 7.00 7.00 9.00 Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 PHINDIRITBL  Surveys implemented under the project (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1.00 1.00 3.00 Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 6/29/2018 Page 4 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) PHINDIRITBL  Adopted quality assurance framework including a compendium of standards, concepts and definitions, and a handbook of statistical policies and procedures. (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Compendium of Handbooks, guides Compendium of standards, No quality assurance and statistical standards, concepts and concepts and Value framework exists. procedures manual definition developed and definition pending adoption adopted developed and adopted Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 PHINDIRITBL  GIS data-layers stored and accessible through the GIS web-database (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 4.00 6.00 16.00 16.00 Date 06-Dec-2013 05-Jul-2017 28-Jun-2018 30-Jun-2020 Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P144139 IDA-55370 Effective USD 9.00 9.00 0.00 3.65 4.68 44% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P144139 IDA-55370 Effective 16-Jul-2014 05-Nov-2014 13-Feb-2015 30-Jun-2020 30-Jun-2020 Cumulative Disbursements 6/29/2018 Page 5 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Statistical Capacity Building Project (P144139) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 6/29/2018 Page 6 of 6 Public Disclosure Copy