Additional Financing for Malawi COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project (WB-P178095)

Countries
  • Malawi
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Voting Date
Jun 21, 2022
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 Malawi
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, Loan
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 50.00 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.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 25.50 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.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 24.50 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)
$ 60.00 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 Jul 1, 2022

Disclosed by Bank Oct 24, 2021

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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 bank documents, the project objective is to prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 in Malawi and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness.

The additional activities will be incorporated into the existing components of the parent project as described below.

  1. Component 1: Emergency COVID-19 Response (parent project US$5.3 million equivalent; AF1 US$28.8 million; proposed AF2 US$44.5 million equivalent, IDA and US$10.0 million equivalent, GFF)

    Subcomponent 1.1: Case Detection, Confirmation, Contact Tracing, Recording, Reporting (parent project US$4.1 million equivalent; AF1 US$1.0 million equivalent, proposed AF2 US$3.38 million equivalent, IDA). This sub-component would be scaled-up.

    1. Subcomponent 1.2: Health System Strengthening (parent project US$1.2 million equivalent; AF1 US$1.8 million; proposed AF2 US$23.62 million equivalent, IDA). This sub-component would be scaled up to strengthen the health system’s ability to detect and manage COVID-19 cases and include new activities.

    2. Subcomponent 1.3: Vaccine Procurement and Deployment (parent project US$0; AF1 US$26.0 million equivalent; proposed AF2 US$17.5 million equivalent, IDA). This subcomponent would bescaled up, and finance procurement of additional eligible COVID-19 vaccines.

    3. Subcomponent 1.4: Monitoring and Maintaining Essential Health and Nutrition Services (parent project US$0; AF1 US$0; proposed AF2 US$10.0 million equivalent, GFF). This is a new sub-component.

  2. Component 2: Supporting National and Sub-national Prevention and Preparedness (parent project US$0.95 million equivalent; AF1 US$0 million equivalent; proposed AF2 US$2.5 million equivalent, IDA). This sub-component would be scaled up to support strengthening of rapid response teams at the district level by enhancing their disease surveillance capacity and their mobility to respond to public health emergencies.

  3. Component 3: Implementation Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (parent project US$0.75 million equivalent; AF1 US$1.2 million equivalent; proposed AF2 US$3.0 million equivalent, IDA). This component would be scaled up.

  4. Component 4: Contingent Emergency Response Component (US$0.0 million). The CERC is included to allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of a future natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and/or social impact during the life of the project. This component will have no funding allocation initially. In the event of a future emergency, this component would allow the Government to request the World Bank to recategorize and reallocate financing from other project components to cover emergency response and recovery costs, if approved by the World Bank.

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World Bank:
Chiho Suzuki
Senior Health Specialist

John Bosco Makumba
Senior Operations Officer

Borrower:
Republic of Malawi
McDonald Mafuta Mwale
Secretary to the Treasury
rmwale@rbm.mw

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of Health
Charles Mwansambo
Secretary for Health
cmwansambo@gmail.com 

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