Egypt Strengthening Social Safety Net Additional Financing (WB-P168414)

Countries
  • Egypt
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
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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
Feb 28, 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 Egypt
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Law and Government
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Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 500.00 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)
$ 500.00 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 Jan 16, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Nov 5, 2018

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Project Description
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Original PDO:
The project development objective (PDO) is to support the Borrower to establish an efficient and effective Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program. “Efficient” is defined and measured by good targeting of the poor. “Effective” is defined and measured by coverage of the poor and having basic administrative building blocks of the Program.

Current PDO
The project development objective (PDO) of the parent project will be revised as follows: “to support the Borrower to establish an efficient and effective Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program and improve access to economic opportunities. “Efficient” is defined and measured by good targeting of the poor. “Effective” is defined and measured by coverage of the poor and having basic administrative building blocks of the Program. “Improved access to economic opportunities” in this context is defined as better access to wage or self-employment for targeted poor and vulnerable households.

Under the proposed additional funding, the original components (Components 1–3) will remain unchanged but will include additional funds to scale up the activities. The AF will also finance a new Component 4 (Economic Inclusion/Empowerment Services Pilot).

  1. Provision of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers (original allocation US$375 + additional funding allocation US$435 million, total revised allocation: US$810 million).
  2. Support SSN Targeting and Operational Systems (original allocation US$22 million + additional funding allocation US$10 million, total revised allocation: US$32 million).
  3. Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (original allocation US$3 million + additional funding allocation US$5 million, total revised allocation: US$8 million).
  4. Economic Inclusion/Empowerment Services Pilot (AF allocation: US$50 million). Under the additional funding, Component 4 will be introduced to support the government pilot program to achieve a number of economic inclusion targets.

 

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World Bank:
Nahla Ahmed Mohamed Salaheldin Zeitoun
Sr Social Protection Specialist

Borrower:
Government of Egypt, Ministry of International Cooperation
Tarek Abdel Sattar
Program Manager

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of Social Solidarity
Ms. Ghada Waly
Minister

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