The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) SOUTH ASIA | Afghanistan | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing (IPF) | FY 2022 | Seq No: 7 | Archived on 14-Apr-2025 | ISR03641 Implementing Agencies: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 1. OBJECTIVE 1.1 Development Objective Original Development Objective (Approved as part of Approval package on 02-Jun-2022) To restore production of food security crops for the targeted smallholder farmers. Has the Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Current Development Objective (Approved as part of Additional Financing package Seq. 3 on 07-Apr-2025) Improve food security through promoting resilience and commercialization of agriculture production systems for target beneficiaries. 2. COMPONENTS Name Restoring Agriculture Production:(Cost 210,220,010.00) Provision of Water and Resilience Services:(Cost 105,599,000.00) Implementation Support:(Cost 81,647,990.00) Promote Commercialization of Farmers:(Cost 12,533,000.00) 3. OVERALL RATINGS Name Previous Current Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Apr 14, 2025 Page 1 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) 4. KEY ISSUES & STATUS 4.1 Implementation Status and Key Decisions The project is progressing implementing activities under the first additional financing. The World Bank will conduct an implementation support mission in May, 2025 and will provide detailed updates on project performance and progress towards the project objectives. 5. SYSTEMATIC OPERATIONS RISK-RATING TOOL Rating at Approval Last Approved Rating Risk Category Approval Package - AF Seq. 03 Approval - Proposed Rating 02 Jun 2022 07 Apr 2025 Political and Governance High High High Macroeconomic High High High Sector Strategies and Policies Substantial Substantial Substantial Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Substantial Substantial Substantial Sustainability Fiduciary Substantial Substantial Substantial Environment and Social Substantial Substantial Substantial Stakeholders Substantial Substantial Substantial Overall Substantial Substantial Substantial Apr 14, 2025 Page 2 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) 6. RESULTS 6.1 PDO Indicators by PDO Outcomes Promote resilience Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 33.00 02-Oct-2024 33 10-Apr-2025 25.00 Dec/2027 Comments on This indicator captures the increased productivity per unit of land ( by the target households) Production increase in crops achieving targets allowed by the project through improving access to irrigation water and improved input supported by the project packages. Target value takes cognizance of measurement after one year of infrastructure (Percentage) while the impact of the improved packages will be realized in the harvest time of the same planning season. Farmers reached with 1,525,771.00 02-Oct-2024 1,525,771 10-Apr-2025 1,813,000.00 Dec/2027 agricultural assets or services (Number) Farmers reached with 150,000.00 02-Oct-2024 150,000 10-Apr-2025 362,600.00 Dec/2027 agricultural assets or services - Female (Number) Promote commercialization Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Number of small 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 150 Dec/2027 agribusinesses investing in enhanced production and value addition through the project support (Number) Apr 14, 2025 Page 3 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) Share of project- 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 30 Dec/2027 supported small agribusinesses investing in enhanced production and value addition that are women-owned (Percentage) Food security Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year People fed as a result of 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 9,590,000 Dec/2027 increased agricultural/food production (Number of people) CRI People fed as a result 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 4,747,050 Dec/2027 of increased agricultural/food production - Female (Number of people) CRI People fed as a result 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 0 Dec/2027 of increased agricultural/food production - Youth (Number of people) CRI 6.2 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Apr 14, 2025 Page 4 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) Restoring Agriculture Production Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 0.00 Apr/2022 32,000.00 02-Oct-2024 32,000 10-Apr-2025 60,500.00 Dec/2027 Certified wheat seeds Comments on This indicator captures the quantity of certified seeds produced and distributed to the distributed to farmers achieving targets Districts, which is an intermediate step before final distribution to the farmers. The final (Metric ton) distribution is captured under PDO1, with the addition of percentage usage. Area cultivated for food 0.00 Apr/2022 239,984.00 02-Oct-2024 239,984 10-Apr-2025 477,000.00 Dec/2027 production with the Comments on This indicator captures the amount of cultivated area with the distributed seeds by the distributed seeds by the achieving targets beneficiaries in hectares. beneficiaries (Hectare(Ha)) Female headed-households 0.00 Apr/2022 150,000.00 02-Oct-2024 150,000 10-Apr-2025 225,000.00 Dec/2027 benefiting from support for production of higher nutrition value vegetables and legumes (Number) Beneficiaries with improved 0.00 Nov/2023 0.00 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 31,000 Dec/2027 processing and post harvest Comments on Beneficiary selection is ongoing management facilities achieving targets (Number) (Number) Private Seed Enterprises with 0.00 Apr/2022 100.00 02-Oct-2024 100 10-Apr-2025 100.00 Dec/2027 improved capacity to Comments on The project surveyed 130 private seed companies and the number PSEs supported is likely to produce and market climate achieving targets increase in the next semester. resilient seeds (Number) (Number) New climate-resilient 0 Oct/2024 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 10 Dec/2027 technologies introduced (Number) Apr 14, 2025 Page 5 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) Provision of Water and Resilience Services Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 0.00 Apr/2022 263,370.00 02-Oct-2024 263,370 10-Apr-2025 373,370.00 Dec/2027 Comments on This indicator measures the total area of land provided with irrigation and drainage services Area provided with achieving targets under the project, including in (i) the area provided with new irrigation and drainage services, new/improved irrigation or drainage services and (ii) the area provided with improved irrigation and drainage services, expressed in hectare (Hectare(Ha)) (ha) as well as area provided with riverbank protection, soil and water conservation measures as well as improved watershed management and repairs to upper catchment of Karezes. Area planted with climate 0 Nov/2023 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 3,900 Dec/2027 resilient vegetative coverage (Hectare(Ha)) 0.00 Apr/2022 775.50 02-Oct-2024 775.50 10-Apr-2025 1,551.00 Dec/2027 Rehabilitated Irrigation Comments on This indicator measures the length of irrigation canals that are rehabilitated with the project Canals (Kilometers) achieving targets support. 0.00 Apr/2022 130.00 02-Oct-2024 130 10-Apr-2025 160.00 Dec/2027 Erosion control structures Comments on This indicator captures the number of watersheds that will be constructed/rehabilitated constructed (Number) achieving targets through the project. 0.00 Apr/2022 67.00 02-Oct-2024 67 10-Apr-2025 180.00 Dec/2027 Karezes restored/repaired Comments on This indicator captures the number of Karezes restored through the upper catchment through upper catchment achieving targets management to increase the discharge, and/or repaired, and/or improved through the management (Number) construction of regulating ponds. Days of short-term jobs 0.00 Apr/2022 6,343,022.00 02-Oct-2024 6,343,022 10-Apr-2025 8,529,000.00 Dec/2027 created by project Comments on This indicator measures the number of days worked by unskilled workers men and women (Number) achieving targets on irrigation/watershed activities. Apr 14, 2025 Page 6 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) Days of short-term jobs 0.00 Apr/2022 503,269.00 02-Oct-2024 503,269 10-Apr-2025 409,392.00 Dec/2027 worked by female beneficiaries (Number) 0.00 Feb/2023 0.00 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 0.00 Dec/2027 Number of female potential Comments on Since the project successfully employed women in cash-for-work activities, the need for cash for work beneficiaries achieving targets unconditional cash transfers was eliminated. The number reported in the early reporting reached with unconditional cycle has now been corrected. The amount of cash-for-work employment created for cash transfers (Number) women has been recorded under the relevant indicator. Implementation Support Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 0.00 Apr/2022 93.00 02-Oct-2024 93 10-Apr-2025 80.00 Dec/2027 Comments on Measure the proportion of beneficiaries (from all types of activities) that are moderately to achieving targets highly satisfied with project support. It would be needed to conduct a survey of Beneficiaries satisfied with beneficiaries. A beneficiary will be considered satisfied, when 80 percent of his/her answers support provided by the are excellent or good (there will be a scale with questions from very bad to excellent; The project (Percentage) satisfaction of beneficiaries will be assessed for example on the following topics: satisfaction with seeds (timeliness, quality, advice), kitchen gardens (volume ofeeds, timeliness, quality of seeds, etc.), irrigation infrastructures (timeliness, quality, participation of community, etc.), etc. 0.00 Apr/2022 89.00 02-Oct-2024 89 10-Apr-2025 80.00 Dec/2027 Of which female Comments on Measure the proportion of beneficiaries female (from all types of activities) that are (Percentage) achieving targets moderately to highly satisfied with project support. Public grievances received 0.00 Apr/2022 90.00 02-Oct-2024 90 10-Apr-2025 80.00 Dec/2027 and resolved within the Comments on The grievances will be accounted for and tracked it will include the person raising the prescribed timeline achieving targets complaint (if possible), the type of complaint, the date of reception by the project, and the (Percentage) Apr 14, 2025 Page 7 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) entity responsible for solving the issue. The grievances will cover all aspects of project implementation and the GRMs will be available to direct and indirect project beneficiaries. Promote Commercialization of Farmers Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Number of smallholder 0 Oct/2024 0 02-Oct-2024 0 10-Apr-2025 15,000.00 Dec/2027 farmers with enhanced access to markets due to project interventions (Number) Women smallholder farmers 0 02-Oct-2024 0 3,000 Dec/2027 reporting enhanced access to markets due to project interventions (Number) Apr 14, 2025 Page 8 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) 7. DATA ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 7.1 Cumulative Disbursements 7.2 Disbursements (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed TF-C3845 Effective 100.00 100.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 100.00 % TF-B8720 Effective 195.00 195.00 0.00 195.00 0.00 100.00 % 7.3 Key Dates (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Signing Effectiveness Orig. Closing Rev. Closing TF-B8720 Effective 26-May-2022 03-Jun-2022 03-Jun-2022 28-Jun-2024 30-Jun-2025 Apr 14, 2025 Page 9 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Emergency Food Security Project (P178280) TF-C3845 Effective 23-Feb-2024 05-Mar-2024 05-Mar-2024 30-Jun-2025 30-Jun-2025 8. KEY DATES Key Events Planned Actual Approval 06-Jun-2022 02-Jun-2022 Effectiveness 03-Jun-2022 03-Jun-2022 Mid-Term Review No. 01 24-May-2023 19-May-2023 Operation Closing/Cancellation 30-Jun-2025 9. RESTRUCTURING HISTORY Restructuring Level 2 Approved on 15-May-2023 10. ASSOCIATED OPERATION(S) There are no associated operations Apr 14, 2025 Page 10 of 10