Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) AFRICA | Cameroon | Urban Development Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Specific Investment Loan | FY 2007 | Seq No: 14 | ARCHIVED on 29-May-2015 | ISR18952 | Implementing Agencies: CAMWATER, MINHDU Key Dates Key Project Dates Board Approval date:29-May-2007 Effectiveness Date:09-Apr-2008 Planned Mid Term Review Date:-- Actual Mid-Term Review Date:-- Original Closing Date:31-Aug-2012 Revised Closing Date:31-Aug-2015 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The project development objective is to increase access of the urban population, particularly those living in low-income settlements, to basic infrastructure and services, including water supply. To achieve this objective, the project will (i) assist the various stakeholders of urban development in the preparation and implementation of tools and investments designed to increase access to services to as large a number of beneficiaries as possible; and (ii) support and facilitate the implementation of the public-private partnership in the provision of urban water services. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Capacity building and support to decentralization:(Cost $4.00 M) Infrastructure works in low-income settlements:(Cost $43.00 M) Support to the implementation of the public-private partnership in the provision of urban water services:(Cost $33.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Moderately Satisfactory  Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Moderately Satisfactory  Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating  --  Moderate 5/29/2015 Page 1 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) Implementation Status and Key Decisions All ongoing activities of the Project are expected to be completed by its closing date on August 31, 2015. The PDO is expected to be achieved: the Project has increased access of the urban population, particularly those living in low-income settlements, to basic infrastructure and services, including water supply. The Project has successfully strengthened urban capacities, through institutional capacity building, training, system development as well as through social infrastructure in poor settlements. The activities to strengthen institutional capacities both at central and decentralized levels have built on successful participatory methodologies and tools to enhance planning and decision making, procurement and urban management in the targeted cities (Yaoundé 3 and 4, Douala, Mbalmayo, Bamenda, Maroua). The social infrastructure such as roads (to and within the low-income settlements) and drainage works have helped structuring the Project areas and benefitted an ever-growing population in those areas. However, while all resettlement action plans were approved, their level of implementation is uneven, and the Project and the Government still need to make sure that the due payment for all compensations to identified People Affected by the Project will be executed before the Project closing date. The urban water PPP the Project was to support has faced various issues and the lessons being learned will feed the Government of Cameroon's strategic thinking and Bank dialogue on the future of the sector reform, especially taking into consideration the upcoming end of the current affermage in 2018. The Project has currently disbursed 89% of the proceeds of the loan. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  --  Low Macroeconomic  --  --  Low Sector Strategies and Policies  --  --  Substantial Technical Design of Project or Program  --  --  Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability  --  --  Moderate Fiduciary  --  --  Moderate Environment and Social  --  --  Substantial Stakeholders  --  --  Moderate Other  --  --  -- Overall  --  --  Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators 5/29/2015 Page 2 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) PHINDPDOTBL  Number of people in urban areas provided with access to all-season roads within a 500 meter range under the project (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 150000.00 144319.00 420658.00 390000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The figure provided by the project as of 09/30/2014 showed the annual increment only. The actual achievement was 294,319. The target has be over-achieved. PHINDPDOTBL  Number of people benefitting from appropriate drainage (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 150000.00 201480.00 544483.00 390000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The figure provided by the project as of 09/30/2014 showed the annual increment only. The actual achievement was 351,480. The target has be over-achieved. PHINDPDOTBL  Number of people in urban areas provided with access to Improved Water Sources under the project (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 6950000.00 7300000.00 4489780.00 8200000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 27-Oct-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The baseline in the 2007 PAD was 6,800,000 "additional population benefitting from access to safe water". The wording was adjusted in the Additional Financing Project Paper to comply with the Bank Core Sector Indicators. The 2007 PAD figure refers to the UNICEF-WHO Joint Monitoring Program, which provides the rate of urban population accessing to improved water sources. It thus considered the entire urban population. While the project was supporting the implementation of the PPP in the urban water sector, actually the affermage perimeter did not (and still does not) cover the entire urban areas, but only those with existing water systems or approximately over 100 urban centers for a total of over 300 urban centers in the country. The projections initially made were, in that sense, relatively unrealistic as they could not be monitored strictly by the project, and the target was way beyond the achievements that could be attributed to the project, both in terms of geographic coverage and in terms of funding (Bank versus other sources of funding). This was not amended with the AF. The discussion between the Project and the Bank team led to suggest a more realistic indicator based on the CDE perimeter only (see supplemental indicator). It was calculated for every year of the project which started at the same time as the affermage (baseline: 12/31/2007), taking into account the 2007 existing customers and adding, for each year, the number of customers newly served by CDE 5/29/2015 Page 3 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) through house connections (10 people per connection as per the affermage standards) and CDE-operated standpipes (300 people per standpipes). However, even in this reduced perimeter more consistent with the project targeted areas, achievements in terms of number of people/beneficiaries are based on all CDE operations (all kinds of funding) and results attributable strictly to the project-funded activities cannot be accounted for separately. PHINDPDOTBL  Number of people in urban areas =served by CDE= provided with access to Improved Water Sources (Number, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 3011590.00 -- 4489780.00 4750000.00 PHINDPDOTBL  Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 7000000.00 8000000.00 5034263.00 8590000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The direct project beneficiaries are defined by the sum of beneficiaries of the urban component (the maximum number of people reached either through roads or through drainage, to avoid double-counting as the 2 kinds of activities took place in the same areas) and beneficiaries of the water component. Following on the revised assessment of the number of people with access to improved water sources, the Project and the Bank team agreed to also revise the direct project beneficiaries to get a more realistic, though not fully satisfactory account of the project achievement. PHINDPDOTBL  Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Core Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 47.00 51.00 51.00 51.00 PHINDPDOTBL  Direct project beneficiaries (including only urban areas served by CDE) (Number, Custom Supplement) 5/29/2015 Page 4 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 3042590.00 -- 5034263.00 5140000.00 Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators PHINDIRITBL  Roads rehabilitated, Non-rural (Kilometers, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 12.00 32.60 80.40 41.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The figure provided by the project as of 09/30/2014 showed the annual increment only. The actual achievement was 44.6. The target has be over-achieved. PHINDIRITBL  Length of newly built/rehabilitated drainage works in targeted areas (km) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 13.00 62.70 106.60 49.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The figure provided by the project as of 09/30/2014 showed the annual increment only. The actual achievement was 75.7. The target has be over-achieved. 5/29/2015 Page 5 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) PHINDIRITBL  Length of newly built/rehabilitated water supply networks (km) (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 40.00 115.74 151.00 200.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 27-Oct-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The ongoing works for network extensions are expected to be completed before the project closing date and should then allow the project to over-achieve the end target value. PHINDIRITBL  Improved community water points constructed or rehabilitated under the project (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 82.00 82.00 1200.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments 34 standposts and 48 improved wells were constructed as part of the urban component activities. The activity planning to construct 1,200 standpipes operated by CDE under the water component was cancelled when the related funds were cancelled in March 2014. The end target will not be reached. PHINDIRITBL  Number of social connections (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 7000.00 18854.00 22212.00 70000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The target as initially set (2007 PAD) included 50,000 social connections to be funded by GPOBA following an output-based approach, and 20,000 social connections to be funded under this IDA financing. The ICR for the Cameroon Water Affermage - OBA For Coverage Expansion project (P106794) concluded that the number of social connections actually funded by GPOBA was 18,854. The contract between Camwater and CDE to construct additional social connections, signed in June 2014, sets a contractual objective of 10,000 connections. Most of them were already sold as of April 2015 and a large third of the 10,000 were already constructed at that time (validated by the firm in charge of controlling the works). Assuming that all the 10,000 IDA-funded connections will be completed (constructed and approved) by August 31, 2015, the maximum number of social connections built under the project (GPOBA and IDA funding, as set in the PAD) will be around 28,000, far below the end target value of 70,000. 5/29/2015 Page 6 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) PHINDIRITBL  New piped household water connections that are resulting from the project intervention (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 25000.00 75250.00 130000.00 235000.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 27-Oct-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments As explained for the PDO indicator on the Number of people with access to improved water sources, it was not possible for the project to monitor the house connections resulting from the IDA funded activities separately. The actual achievements for each year of the project were thus recalculated by the Project based on the total of new piped household water connections (including the social connections) that were implemented in the affermage service area. The achievement mentioned for October 2014 and the previous ones did not include the social connections. PHINDIRITBL  Number of city development contracts (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 6.00 6.00 6.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The target is achieved. PHINDIRITBL  Share of municipal budget allocated to maintenance of investments (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 30-Sep-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The Project confirmed that the achievement as of September 30, 2014 was 8%, not 5% as indicated here. 5/29/2015 Page 7 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) PHINDIRITBL  Reduction of share of public customer in total water consumption (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 40.00 36.55 37.95 20.00 Date 31-Aug-2010 27-Oct-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The Project confirmed that instead of decreasing, the share of public customer in total water consumption was currently increasing, as a result of a delayed implementation of the Action Plan to reduce public consumptions. PHINDIRITBL  Progress towards financial equilibrium of the urban water supply sector. (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Efforts to restore the financial equilibrium (the Financial Financial equilibrium Efforts to restore the private operator's net Value equilibrium reached financial equilibrium cash balance as of maintained 12/31/2014 is not yet available) Date 31-Aug-2010 27-Oct-2014 15-Apr-2015 31-Aug-2015 Comments The 2007 PAD indicated that this indicator should be monitored through an annual review of the updated financial model; the 2010 AF PP specified to refer to the private operator's net cash balance to measure the indicator. The operator's net cash balance was negative in 2010, but has since then been positive, while the financial equilibrium is not restored yet, as agreed by all partners. Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P084002 IDA-43130 Effective XDR 53.30 53.02 0.28 46.77 6.25 88% P084002 IDA-48200 Effective XDR 18.90 8.35 10.55 7.85 0.49 94% Key Dates (by loan) 5/29/2015 Page 8 of 9 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report CM-Urban and Water Development Support Project (P084002) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P084002 IDA-43130 Effective 29-May-2007 15-Nov-2007 09-Apr-2008 31-Aug-2012 31-Aug-2015 P084002 IDA-48200 Effective 28-Sep-2010 29-Dec-2010 28-Mar-2011 31-Aug-2014 31-Aug-2015 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. 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