Shock Responsive Safety Net for Human Capital Project (WB-P171346)

Countries
  • Somalia
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
U
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
Aug 8, 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
Federal Republic of Somalia
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
  • Law and Government
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 65.00 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)
$ 65.00 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
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jul 25, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Jun 10, 2019

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Project Description
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The project development objective is to provide cash transfers to targeted poor and vulnerable households and establish the key building blocks of a national shock-responsive safety net system.

The SNHCP is a total of US$ 65 million financed from the IDA’s pre-arrears clearance grant and would support three components, to be implemented over a three year period. 

  1. Nutrition-linked Unconditional Cash Transfers (US$ 53 million equivalent). This Component would provide unconditional cash transfers to households that are chronically poor and vulnerable to drought and malnutrition and link them to complementary nutritional support programs. The objectives of the component are: (i) support households to strengthen their resilience and avoid negative coping mechanisms (e.g. selling off existing households’ assets) to meet escalating needs as a result of the drought in the short term; and (ii) promote human capital investment in the medium to long term by linking beneficiary households to complementary nutrition services (where it exists)9 and continuing to smooth consumption gaps through predictable and reliable provision of cash transfer, even after drought risks are no longer present.
  2. Delivery Systems and Institutional Capacity Building (US$ 6 million equivalent). Component 2 would establish the key building blocks of a SP delivery system and advance policy development, as well as strengthen institutional capacity of relevant government ministries to manage and implement it. The component will provide policy support and technical assistance for the development of safety net delivery systems: a social registry, MIS, operational procedures for registration, enrollment, targeting, grievance redress, payment delivery, monitoring, community outreach and information campaign; and capacity building activities.
  3. Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Knowledge Management (US$ 6 million equivalent). Component 3 would establish Project Implementation Units (PIUs), strengthen MoLSA’s coordination arrangements and promote learning and knowledge management through robust M&E. Specifically, PIUs would be established at the federal and member state levels. Focus would be given to strengthening MoLSA’s coordination arrangements within other ministries and stakeholders at the federal level, and between the federal level and the member states at the local level.
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World Bank:
Afrah Alawi Al-Ahmadi
Sr Social Protection Specialist

Borrower:
Federal Republic of Somalia
Adirahman Duale Beileh
Minister of Finance
abdirahmanbeileh010114@gmail.com

Implementing Agencies
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Sadik Hersi Warfa
Minister
sadikwarfa@yahoo.com

Fardosa Ahmed Abdullahi
Senior Policy Advisor/National SP Coordinator
dowsaahmed79@gmail.com 

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