According to the Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to support the Recipient’s efforts to ensure the provision of essential social services.

The project has two components: (a) ensuring the provision of essential health and education services (US$100 million) and (b) project management (US$400,000). The project will finance essential services in the health and education sectors for 2024 and 2025. Component 1: Ensuring the provision of essential health and education services (US$100 million). The operation will finance essential health and education services under the goods and services economic classification. The component is divided into two subcomponents. The expenditures associated with these services increased by 17 percent from 2023 to 2024 in line with the overall increase of the health and education budgets (+11 percent). The audit of these expenditures started on July 15, 2024, by the Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF) based on the terms of reference agreed with the World Bank. The audit report will be finalized by the end of August 2024. Component 2: Project management (US$400,000). The purpose of this component is to finance the operating costs required for the implementation of the project, including managing its fiduciary risk. These costs will finance (a) the ex-ante audit costs of the selected services by the IGF, (b) the ex-post annual independent audits to provide adequate fiduciary assurance on the use of project funds, (c) the costs related to the implementation of the actions identified in the environmental and social assessments, and (d) other implementation-related costs.

Environmental risk rating: Moderate. The environmental risk is considered moderate, as the activities are not expected to directly generate irreversible risks or many negative environmental impacts. The project will not finance any civil engineering works that might induce risks and/or negative environmental impacts. However, some health-related activities may generate environmental and community health risks from inadequate storage, transportation, and disposal of infected medical waste and conditions of transportation and use of oxygen bottles. In addition, the risks of insecurity arising from (a) the grouping of pupils and teachers in the framework of the organization of exams and concours and (b) the training of education personnel and the organization of conferences for teachers are also to be considered during the environmental and social assessments.

Social risk rating: Moderate. The social risk is considered moderate, as the activities to be financed are limited to the recurrent costs of selected health and education services. The main social risks from the proposed project are related to the potential exclusion of beneficiaries due to inadequacies in information and selection systems as well the security and violence context of the country (for example, challenges in setting the selection criteria for project activities both for structures and persons and ensuring the safety and security of children, especially girls, in the schools and health centers in red insecurity areas); labor issues related to the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) or the people hired for the health and education activities, vulnerabilities among some beneficiaries; and collateral risks to education, social protection, and health workers delivering services mainly in insecure areas.

A proposed credit in the amount of EUR 92.7 million (US$100.4 million equivalent).

World Bank

Kolie Ousmane Maurice Megnan
Senior Public Sector Specialist

Christophe Lemiere
Lead Economist, Health

Borrower/Client/Recipient

MEF
Inoussa OUIMINGA

DGCOOP
jouiminga@yahoo.fr

Implementing Agencies

DGDT
Wilfried BASSOLE
Coordinator
mbassole@yahoo.fr

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