CAR: LONDO+ (WB-P166943)

Countries
  • Central African Republic
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
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
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
May 30, 2019
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
Government of Central African Republic
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Infrastructure
  • Law and Government
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 Jun 29, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Apr 1, 2019

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Project Description
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According to bank documents, the original objective is to provide temporary employment to vulnerable people throughout the entire territory of the country. The current objective is to provide temporary employment to vulnerable people and to facilitate access to basic services throughout the entire territory of the country, and to provide a response in the case of an eligible crisis or emergency.

The project has five components:

  1. Local Governance (approximately US$14.8). This component will continue to finance all the activities included in Component 1 – Local Governance of the parent Project, but will expand the scope of the rapid assessments to determine the type of community works and community infrastructures that can be undertaken in each district.
  2. Public Infrastructure (approximately US$55.8). This component will continue to finance maintenance works done under the parent Project, but will also finance community works, which will go beyond road maintenance, while continuing to rely on works that can be performed by unskilled labor and require labor-intensive methods(e.g. building school benches).
  3. Socio-economic Integration (approximately US$16.8). The number of paid worked days will be tripled: 120,000 contracts of 40 working days each. 4,800 brigades of 25 beneficiaries across the country will be set up, managed, and paid for performing community works.
  4. Project management (US$9.60). While this component will remain unchanged, the M&E activities will be improved through the digitization and geocoding of the different M&E tools. It will allow for the remote supervision of the Project, as well as greater options for information-sharing and coordinated planning with partners.
  5. Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC). This zero-fund component will allow the Government to quickly mobilize funds in the event of an emergency that would require immediate recovery and reconstruction needs, which cannot be covered under the LONDO+; for instance, an epidemic outbreak, a new IDP crisis or a climate-related shocks such as flooding or drought.

 

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World Bank:
Sophie Christelle Grumelard
Sr Social Protection Specialist

Varalakshmi Vemuru
Lead Social Development Specialist

Borrower:
Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Cooperation
Felix Moloua
Minister of Economy and Planning
fmoloua@yahoo.fr

Implementing Agency:
Agence d'Execution des Travaux d'Interet Public en Centrafrique (AGETIP-CAF)
Marcel Ngamassen
Focal Point

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