The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA | Zambia | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing (IPF) | FY 2017 | Seq No: 13 | Archived on 20-Jun-2024 | ISR00737 Implementing Agencies: National Road Fund Agency 1. OBJECTIVE 1.1 Development Objective Original Development Objective (Approved as part of Approval package on 03-May-2017) The objectives of the Project are to: (i) improve the Recipient’s rural road accessibility for communities in selected areas; (ii) strengthen institutional capacity for sustainable management of rural roads; and (iii) respond promptly and effectively to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency. Has the Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No 2. COMPONENTS Name Improvement of feeder roads:(Cost 180,000,000.00) Institutional strengthening in the roads sector:(Cost 20,000,000.00) 3. OVERALL RATINGS Name Previous Current Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial 4. KEY ISSUES & STATUS 4.1 Implementation Status and Key Decisions Jun 20, 2024 Page 1 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) The rehabilitation works under the component 1 of the project are progressing well, with the exception of few packages. The Government is working on addressing these and rectifying the performance of the slow advancing contracts. The World Bank is actively engaged in the process to support the Government to improve the overall performance of the project. The implementation of the Capacity Building activities is progressing well, with several activities picking up speed, including those with the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Local Government and the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA). 5. SYSTEMATIC OPERATIONS RISK-RATING TOOL Rating at Approval Last Approved Rating Risk Category Approval Package - ISR Seq. 012 - 25 Oct Proposed Rating 04 May 2017 2023 Political and Governance Moderate Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic Moderate Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies Substantial Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Substantial Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and High Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary Moderate Moderate Moderate Environment and Social Moderate Substantial Substantial Stakeholders Substantial Moderate Moderate Overall Substantial Substantial Substantial Jun 20, 2024 Page 2 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) 6. RESULTS 6.1 PDO Indicators by PDO Outcomes Project Development Objective Indicators Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 18.70 Feb/2017 18.70 15-Sept-2023 25.00 Dec/2025 Comments on Percentage of rural people in the project area who live within 2 kilometers (typically achieving targets equivalent to a 20-minute walk) of an all-season road. This indicator is also known as Rural Access Index (RAI). An all-season road is motorable all year by the prevailing means of rural Share of rural population transport (often a pick-up or a truck which does not have four-wheel-drive). Predictable with access to an all-season interruptions of short duration during inclement weather (e.g. heavy rainfall) are acceptable, road (Percentage) particularly on low volume roads. Please note that this indicator requires supplemental information Supplemental Value: Number of rural people with access to an all-season road The Supplemental Value is the total number of rural people with access to an all-season road. An all-season road is a road that is motorable all year by the prevailing means of rural transport (often a pick-up or a truck which does not have four-wheel-drive). Number of rural people 1,147,000.00 1,147,000.00 1,587,000.00 with access to an all- Comments on Please indicate the absolute number of rural people with access to an all-season road. season road achieving targets (Number) 0.00 Feb/2017 7.28 15-Sept-2023 7.28 15-Sept-2023 30.00 Dec/2025 Increased proportion of Comments on The national average of the roads in good/fair condition as per 2015 Road Condition Survey Primary Feeder Roads in the achieving targets was 18% (Good 3% and fair 15%). The total number of km of PFRs is 14,333km in the country, that is in good and country. The Project will rehabilitate and maintain a total about 4,314 km of roads, which fair condition (Percentage) account for 30%, which would be added to the baseline, holding the condition of other PFRs that are not covered by the Project constant. Jun 20, 2024 Page 3 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) Improved institutional No Feb/2017 No 15-Sept-2023 No 15-Sept-2023 Yes Dec/2025 oversight capacity in the Comments on The MHID will develop an agency performance framework that includes a performance roads sector, assessed by the achieving targets agreement, performance KPI's, and methods of assessing the RDA performance. The development and application indicator measures whether the framework is prepared and effectively adopted. of an RDA performance framework (Yes/No) 0.00 Feb/2017 0.00 15-Sept-2023 25,000.00 Dec/2025 Comments on Description: NCC will establish the key areas in the implementation of the labor-based policy achieving targets that would result in employment creation. These will include RDA's road development, rehabilitation and maintenance programs as well as activities funded under the Project. The Employment created through number of jobs created is counted in both Project and other road activities. The target is set the implementation of NCC’s based on the past experience by NCC. According to NCC Inspector reports, 3,000-4,000 jobs labor-based policy were annually created in the road and other construction sectors, such as health and (Number) building. The policy is expected to facilitate the adoption of labor based employment, which aims at 5,000 jobs per year. During the next 5 years, 25,000 jobs are expected to be created in the OPRC and other maintenance works by RDA and MLG. The projections are based on two activities namely: grass cutting; and cleaning of drains. Number of beneficiaries 0.00 Feb/2017 0.00 15-Sept-2023 0.00 15-Sept-2023 0.00 Dec/2025 benefiting from emergency Comments on Reporting on this indicator will be subject to CERC being triggered. response and recovery achieving targets activities, if the CERC is triggered (Number) 6.2 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Improvement of feeder roads Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year Jun 20, 2024 Page 4 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) 18.00 Feb/2017 18.00 15-Sept-2023 18.00 15-Sept-2023 63.00 Dec/2025 Proportion of PFRs in the Comments on The national average of the roads in good/fair condition, which was 18% (Good 3% and fair project provinces, that is in achieving targets 15%) as per 2015 Road Condition Survey, is applied for baseline. The total number of km of good and fair condition PFRs is 14,333 km in the country. The Project will rehabilitate and maintain a total of 4,314 (Percentage) km of roads, which account for 30%, which would be added to the baseline, holding the condition of other PFRs that are not covered by the Project constant. Total length of rural roads 0.00 Feb/2017 1,771 15-Sept-2023 1,771 15-Sept-2023 4,300.00 Dec/2025 improved through OPRC Comments on Under the Project, the total of about 4,300 km of roads will be rehabilitated and maintained approach under the project achieving targets in the 15 packages. (Kilometers) Existence of government No Feb/2017 No 15-Sept-2023 Yes Dec/2025 funded road maintenance Comments on The Government is committed to continue maintaining the PFRs funded by the Project after contracts for continued achieving targets the 5-year OPRC contracts. The indicator measures whether or not those additional upkeep of roads after Bank maintenance contracts are included in the RDA annual plan. supported OPRC contracts end (Yes/No) Completion and No Feb/2017 Yes 15-Sept-2023 Yes Dec/2025 implementation of a rural Comments on This is a measurement to ensure the sustained management of rural road management, for roads maintenance strategy achieving targets which the Project will support the preparation and implementation of the rural roads by RDA and MLGH (Yes/No) maintenance strategy by the RDA and MLG. 26.00 Feb/2017 34.40 15-Sept-2023 35.00 Dec/2025 Comments on The baseline of 26% is based on the 2017 Road Sector Annual Work Plan as well as the Road Share of the road fund achieving targets Maintenance Strategy 2015 - 2024 project Road sector cash flows. The target is based on the revenues allocated by NRFA projected local resource revenues as outlined in the Road Maintenance Strategy. It is towards road maintenance assumed that the projected revenues for the Road Fund will all go towards maintenance. (Percentage) While 10% of the total collections of the Road Fund are spent on operating costs in the road sector, the remaining 90% would be spent on road maintenance on the assumption that GRZ will fund the costs attributed to other upgrading and rehabilitation works. " 0.00 Feb/2017 10.00 15-Sept-2023 15.00 Dec/2025 Jun 20, 2024 Page 5 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) Performance of road safety Comments on The target is the number of packages. The Audit shall be done before and after the design, audit by RTSA on all OPRC achieving targets and after the implementation of the projects. packages (Number) Institutional strengthening in the roads sector Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) Closing Period Indicator Name Value Month/Year Value Date Value Date Value Month/Year 0.00 Feb/2017 100,374.00 15-Sept-2023 100,374.00 15-Sept-2023 464,128.00 Dec/2025 Comments on Direct beneficiaries are people or groups who directly derive benefits from an intervention achieving targets (i.e., children who benefit from an immunization program; families that have a new piped Direct project beneficiaries water connection). Please note that this indicator requires supplemental information. (Number) Supplemental Value: Female beneficiaries (percentage). Based on the assessment and definition of direct project beneficiaries, specify what proportion of the direct project beneficiaries are female. This indicator is calculated as a percentage. 0.00 28,048.00 28,048.00 228,955.00 Female beneficiaries Comments on Based on the assessment and definition of direct project beneficiaries, specify what number (Number) achieving targets of the beneficiaries are female. Proportion of women 0.00 Feb/2017 10.08 15-Sept-2023 20.00 Dec/2025 employed in the road Comments on In Zambia, road project progress reports normally report how many women are employed in maintenance aspects of the achieving targets the activities, which will be used to calculate this indicator. It is assumed that 20% are road contracts (Percentage) female. Development and No Feb/2017 Yes 15-Sept-2023 Yes Dec/2025 implementation of a citizen Comments on RDA develops and implements a citizen engagement tool that includes social and engagement tool for social achieving targets environmental safeguards in general, and labor influx in particular, as areas of citizen and environmental consultations safeguards and labor influx (Yes/No) 0.00 Feb/2017 83.00 15-Sept-2023 83.00 15-Sept-2023 75.00 Dec/2025 Jun 20, 2024 Page 6 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) Proportion of complaints Comments on These are complaints received from the stakeholders and the general public, at project level. addressed and resolved achieving targets The complaints are expected to be recorded, addressed and resolved timely. through Grievance Redress Mechanism (Percentage) Jun 20, 2024 Page 7 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) 7. DATA ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 7.1 Cumulative Disbursements 7.2 Disbursements (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed IDA-60390 Effective 200.00 200.00 0.00 84.22 115.78 42.11% 7.3 Key Dates (by loan) Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Signing Effectiveness Orig. Closing Rev. Closing IDA-60390 Effective 04-May-2017 13-Sept-2017 15-Feb-2018 31-Dec-2025 31-Dec-2025 8. KEY DATES Jun 20, 2024 Page 8 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Zambia: Improved Rural Connectivity Project (P159330) Key Events Planned Actual Approval 04-May-2017 04-May-2017 Effectiveness Not Available 15-Feb-2018 Mid-Term Review No. 01 30-Jun-2022 22-Jun-2022 Operation Closing/Cancellation 31-Dec-2025 9. RESTRUCTURING HISTORY Restructuring Level 2 Approved on 06-Nov-2018 Restructuring Level 2 Approved on 27-Sept-2021 Restructuring Level 2 Approved on 08-Nov-2019 10. ASSOCIATED OPERATION(S) There are no associated operations Jun 20, 2024 Page 9 of 9