Sudan SANAD - Emergency Crisis Response Safety Net Project (WB-P505963)

Countries
  • Sudan
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
A
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Dec 13, 2024
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
World Food Programme (WFP); United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 100.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 100.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Mar 10, 2025

Disclosed by Bank Nov 5, 2024

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to provide Emergency Safety Nets support to vulnerable and food insecure populations in selected areas of the Republic of the Sudan.

Components:
Emergency Safety Net Transfers
Human Capital sensitive cash transfers
Project Management

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

The environmental risk of the project is moderate. The Project finances unconditional cash transfers. The unconditional cash transfers will be relatively low, with hardly any savings for investment by the beneficiary households to get involved in the implementation of activities potentially affecting the environment. The potential environmental risks and impacts include worker occupational health and safety (OHS) risks associated with cash transfer. Hence, OHS concerns are anticipated to be the main environmental risks because of the project activities.

Social risk rating of the project is considered High, mainly due to inherent project related social risks including (i) exclusion of most vulnerable groups including ethnic minorities and IDPs, and beneficiaries in remote areas; (ii) security concerns for project staff, workers of Payment service providers, and beneficiaries; (iii) rejection of selection criteria for project benefits; (iv) weak and insufficient community engagement during preparation and implementation which could result in elite capture, (v) conflict and social tensions between the host communities and IDPs; (vi) illegal activities, such as violence, extortion, theft, armed assault, looting, and vandalism of project materials and properties; (vii) risks related to unexploded ordinances due to past and an ongoing active conflcit in some of project area, and (viii) risk of GBV, including sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEA/SH).

Investment Description
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IDA Grant: US$ 100.00 million

Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - UN World Food Programme (WFP) Client -
- - - - UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND (UNICEF) Client -

Contact Information
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World Bank

Endashaw Tadesse Gossa
Senior Social Protection Specialist

Mohamed Abdel Jelil
Senior Social Protection Economist

Borrower/Client/Recipient

World Food Programme (WFP)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Implementing Agencies

World Food Programme (WFP)
Eddie Rowe
Representative and Country Director
eddie.rowe@wfp.org

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Mandeep O’Brien
Representative
mobrien@unicef.org

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