Rapid Social Response Summary Monthly Reports June/August Figure 1: Approved & Pipeline Projects by Theme Code, FY 09 and 10

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1 Rapid Social Response Summary Monthly Reports June/August Synopsis: By August 2009, total allocations towards RSR Priority Themes amounted to $7.6 billion, including $4.3 billion for FY 09 and $3.3 billion for FY 10 (See Figure1). $ million Figure 1: Approved & Pipeline Projects by Theme Code, FY 09 and Improving Labor Markets SP and Risk Management Social Risk Mitigation Social Safety Nets Nutrition and Food Security New Approved Projects 2 : From June to August 2009, the Board approved 17 new projects with total allocations to RSR Priority Themes of close to $1,1 billion (see Table 1). Table 1: Approved Projects during June, July and August 2009 Region Country Project ID Title AFR Nigeria P Theme Allocations (%) Total IBRD/IDA/ Grant Amount NG-Lagos Eko Secondary Education (FY09) 51 (30%) 28.5 AFR Nigeria P NG-HIV/AIDS Prog. Dev. II (FY09) 54 (17%) 38.3 AFR Cameroon P CM-Com Dev Prog Sup APL-II 51 (15%) 6.0 APL AFR Congo, Rep. Dem. P CG - HIV/AIDS & Health Additional fin 54 (11%) 0.6 AFR Ghana P GH-EGPRC (fast-track) 54 (17%) 51.0 DPL EAP Mongolia P Development Policy Credit 54 (10%) 4.0 DPL EAP Vietnam P VN - PRSC 8 54 (15%) 52.5 DPL ECA Poland P Poland Empl. Entrepreneurship & HCDP DPL 54 (17%) DPL ECA Macedonia P Conditional Cash Transfers Project 54 (50%) 12.5 Instrument 1 Compiled by Margaret Grosh, Jeanine Braithwaite, Colin Andrews and Julia Loureiro. Data generated from the World Bank s Business Warehouse project database for projects classified under the themes Improving Labor Markets (51), Social Safety Nets (54) Other Social Protection and Risk Management (56), Nutrition and Food Security (68) and Social Risk Mitigation (87). Data accurate as of September 2 nd, Approved projects have been fully cleared by the World Bank Board and accordingly are under implementation. 1

2 ECA Armenia P AM DPO-1 54 (14%) 8.4 DPL ECA Georgia P Georgia: DPO (33%) 28.0 DPL ECA Romania P DPL 1 54 (20%) 84.6 DPL LCR Argentina P AR Basic Protection Project 54 (92%), 51 (8%) MNA Yemen, Rep. P RY - Employment for Marginalized Youth 51 (33%) 0.6 TAL SAR Pakistan P PPAF III 51 (22%) 50.0 SAR Pakistan P Social Safety Net Technical Assistance 54 (100%) 60.0 TAL SAR India P MPDPIP-II 51 (3%) 3.0 Total IBRD/IDA/Grant Amount for RSR priority themes (US$ million) 1,099.0 New Approved Projects: June-August 2009 Highlights Ghana Economic Governance and Poverty Reduction Credit (EGPRC) The Bank approved a US$300 million dollar DPO for Ghana (of which US$51 million was devoted to safety nets), which is being processed under the IDA Financial Crisis Response Fast-Track. EGPRC aims to support the Ghanaian Government's efforts, in the midst of the current global crisis, to bring their fiscal stance to a sound and sustainable track and protect the development objectives set in Ghana's Second Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) for the period The three main objectives are: (i) restore budgetary discipline (through establishing a treasury single account, improving compliance with public procurement law and correcting budget deviations); (ii) tackle long-standing public sector and energy issues (through reconstituting the boards of energy-related utilities and regulatory authority, adopting an electricity sector financial recovery plan, eliminating ghost workers in health and education services, among others); and (iii) support the development of safety nets (through extending the number of beneficiaries to receive conditional and unconditional cash transfers in the LEAP program and reviewing the effectiveness of propoor expenditures). Vietnam Eight Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC 8) Program The Bank approved the PRSC 8 Program for Vietnam as a DPL in the amount of US$350 million (US$52.5 million for safety nets). The credit is the third in a programmatic series of five annual single-tranche operations (PRSCs 6-10). PRSC 8 is designed to assist the government to implement its Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) It aims to support all four pillars of the SEDP, namely (a) the promotion of growth and transition to a middle-income market economy, (b) reducing poverty and ensuring social inclusion, (c) managing environmental and natural resources in a sustainable manner, and (d) building institutions to support the above actions and promote modern governance. PRSC 8 has 11 triggers, negotiated with the government under PRSC 7, in the areas of (a) state sector, (b) financial sector, (c) energy, (d) education, (e) health, (f) social protection, (g) forests, (h) environment, (i) public financial management, (j) legal development, and (k) anti-corruption. Sufficient progress towards achieving them will form the basis for proceeding with the operation. The cross-cutting nature of the policy dialogue PRSCs strengthens coordination among line ministries and government agencies. 2

3 Romania First Development Policy Loan Program Romania s First Development Policy Loan in the amount of US$423 million (of which US$84.6 million were directed to safety nets) was approved by the Bank in July. The objective of the proposed DPL program is to support the Government s reforms in fiscal management, social protection and the financial sector. Specifically, these reforms aim to (i) strengthen public financial and expenditure management, especially in health and education sectors; (ii) cushion the impact of the crisis on the poor and vulnerable and strengthen the social assistance and social protection systems; (iii) minimize the risks of a domestic financial sector crisis and strengthen regulation and supervision. In the area of social protection specifically, the reform measures supported by the DPL program relate to (i) increasing the coverage and improving the design of the most efficient and well targeted social assistance program the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) while progressively rationalizing and reducing the coverage of the less efficiently targeted programs and (ii) gradually indexing benefit adjustments of the Romanian Public Pensions System to inflation and eventually equalizing retirement ages between men and women. Argentina AR Basic Protect ion Project The Bank approved a for US$450 million to increase the effectiveness of Argentina s income transfer programs for the unemployed and families with children, by improving design features, transparency and accountability in two core social protection programs and transferring beneficiaries from other, less effective schemes to them. The project includes the following three components: (i) improvements in Seguro, an employment benefit and training program (formerly Jefes) (ii) improvement in the Familias, a family allowances Conditional Cash Transfer program and (iii) a Technical Assistance component for monitoring and evaluation of social protection programs. The project builds on the World Bank s support to the Government of Argentina for social inclusion, a central theme in the current Country Assistance Strategy and the new forthcoming Country Partnership Strategy. To this end, enhancing existing programs and promoting their expansion to a wider population are two critical steps to promote improved poverty outcomes. Yemen Employment for At-Risk and Marginalized Youth A Grant in the amount of US$1.85 million (US$0.61 million directed to improving labor markets) was approved to assist in the financing of the project Employment for At-Risk and Marginalized Youth in the Republic of Yemen. The project aims to develop a system of second chance opportunities for vulnerable and marginalized youth through building up institutional competencies across civil society, non-government and government organizations to develop programs that will meet the unique and diversified needs of the youth. The Project consists of the following parts: (i) building technical and managerial competencies among non-government and government organizations and establishing interorganizational linkages; (ii) developing and delivering goods, consultant services, training and workshop to promote access to a supportive system of business incubation services; (iii) monitoring and evaluation training, including development of a database for youth for evaluating outcomes including baseline data; (iv) provision of technical assistance to project implementation and supervision, procurement, and financial management, including audit. 3

4 Pakistan Social Safety Net Technical Assistance Project The Bank approved a Technical Assistance Credit of US$60 million for the SSN TA project, which aims to enhance the operation and management of a nationwide safety net system in Pakistan. Over a four year period, the proposed SSN TA project would provide support through (i) building the foundations for a national, unified targeting system that could progressively be used for a defined set of targeted programs, (ii) strengthening the institutional capacity to roll out and manage an efficient and transparent national safety net system including the piloting of safety ladders through linkages with complementary measures, and (iii) supporting the evolution of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) through the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation system for the strategy across programs and interventions. The project is therefore seen as the beginning of a longer term engagement to establish structures and systems for better social protection of the poor in the country. New Pipeline Entries 3 : 28 new projects entered pipeline in the period, including 9 in June, 12 in July and 7 in August, with total allocations to RSR Priority Themes of close to $613 million (see Table 2). Table 2: New Pipeline Entries during June, July and August 2009 Region Country Project ID Title Theme Allocations (%) Total IBRD/IDA/ Grant Amount Instrument AFR Niger P NE-DPL IV 54 (17%) 8.5 DPL AFR Senegal P SN-PRSC 4-DPL 51 (14%) 4.6 DPL RW: Economic Empowerment of TAL AFR Rwanda P (33%), 87 (33%) Young Women 1.4 AFR Ghana P GH- Productive Safety Nets 54 (30%) AFR Ghana P GH-PRSC 7 (FY10) 54 (20%) AFR Kenya P AFR Congo, Dem. Rep. P AFR Sudan P AFR Rwanda P KE-Youth Empowerment Program (FY09) DRC: Gender Based Violence in South Kivu South Sudan Adolescent Girls Initiative RW-Second Community Living Standards Gra 54 (70%), 56 (30%) 54 (10%) DPL APL 51 (100%) 2.2 TAL 54 (35%), 68 (17%), 51 (10%) 3.7 DPL AFR Benin P BJ-Community Development 54 (50%) 15.0 AFR Sierra Leone P SL-Decentr. Serv. Del. Program (FY10) 54 (34%) 6.8 EAP Mongolia P Mongolia - Development Policy Credit 2 54 (25%) 5.0 DPL EAP Timor-Leste P TP - Emergency National Workfare Project 54 (40%), 56 (20%) 2.1 ERL EAP Indonesia P ID PNPM Rural III 54 (11%) (50%), 56 (25%), ECA Moldova P Public Works 87 (25%) Pipeline projects are early stages of preparation for eventual World Bank Board approval. 4

5 ECA Romania P Development Policy Loan 2 (DPL 2) 54 (20%) 94.0 DPL ECA Serbia P Public Expenditure DPL 54 (25%) 25.0 DPL LCR Mexico P MX Social Protection in Health 54 (10%) LCR Peru P PE Results in Nutrition for Juntos 68 (50%), 54 (50%) 25.0 LCR El Salvador P SV-Employability Project 51 (45%), 54 (35%) 56.0 LCR El Salvador P SV Sustaining Social Gains 51 (20%), 54 (20%) LCR Nicaragua P NI Health Sector III (APL-3) 68 (20%) 4.0 MNA Tunisia P Tunisia Employment DPL 51 (100%) 50.0 DPL MNA Yemen, Rep. P RY-JSDF Cultural Industry Dev. 56 (100%) 1.2 TAL MNA Syrian Arab SY: Improving Employability of P Rep. Youth West Bank MNA and Gaza P GZ- Palestinian PNGOIII Add. Fin. 2 SAR Afghanistan P Adolescent Girls Initiative - Afghanistan SAR Nepal P Adolescent Girls Employment Initiative 40.0 DPL 56 (100%) 2.4 TAL 54 (29%), 56 (14%), 51 (14%) (50%) 56 (20%) Total IBRD/IDA/Grant Amount for RSR priority themes (US$ million) Breakdown of RSR Projects Tables 3-4 and Figure 2 provide an in-depth breakdown of RSR projects for FY taking into account project status, composition of IDA and IBRD lending, and disaggregation by region (dollar allocations and number of projects). The majority of allocations are towards Theme 54 projects and almost 20% of lending commitments are for IDA Countries ($1.5 billion). Portfolio allocations by fiscal year, project status and lending type Table 3: Portfolio Allocations: $ Values by FY, Project Status, Lending Type Theme Code FY Project Status (09-10) Lending Type (09-10) 4 Totals US$ Active Closed Pipeline IBRD IDA million Sub Totals Grand Total US$ million The World Bank classifies a country as eligible for IBRD or IDA lending according to the wealth of its population. IBRD-eligible countries are middle-income (defined as having a per capita income of between around US$1,000 and US$10,000) and credit-worthy lower income countries. Not credit-worthy low-income countries are eligible to receive low or no interest loans and grants from IDA. Countries are eligible for IDA support depending on their relative poverty, defined as GNI per capita below an established threshold and updated annually (in fiscal year 2010: US$1,135). 5

6 Breakdown by region for each Theme Code by dollar allocation and number of projects Table 4: Portfolio Allocations: $ Values (US$ millions) and # of Projects by Region 5 Region Theme Codes $ # $ # $ # $ # $ # AFR EAP ECA LCR MENA SAR Totals Historical perspective of the portfolio Figure 2 charts the stock of projects in portfolio and pipeline by Theme Code ( ). Figure 2: Stock of Projects in Portfolio and Pipeline by Theme Code ( ) $ million Improving Labor Markets SP and Risk Management Social Risk Mitigation Social Safety Nets Nutrition and Food Security 5 Note that when projects are coded to more than one RSR priority themes they are counted in this table in all relevant theme codes. 6