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Project Completion Report AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK NIGER DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (PANGIRE) OF NIGER PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT (PCR) Public Disclosure authorized RDGW/AWTF/AHWS March 2019 Translated document Public Disclosure authorized PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT (PCR) FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC SECTOR OPERATIONS BANK GROUP DEVELOPPEMENT I BASIC DATA A Report data Report date Date of report: September 2018 Mission date (if field mission) From: 13/08/18 B Responsible Bank staff Positions At approval At completion Regional Director Franck J.M. PERRAULT Marie-Laure AKIN-OLUGBADE Sector Director Mohamed ELAZIZI Gladys Wambui GICHURI Sector Manager Akissa BAHRI Jean Michel OSSETE Task Manager Jean Michel OSSETE Ousseynou GUENE Alternate Task Manager PCR Team Leader Ousseynou GUENE Francis Daniel BOUGAIRE, Adolphe PCR Team Members TITIKPEU C Project data Project name: Development and Implementation of the National Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management (PANGIRE) of Niger Project code: P-NE-EAZ-004 Grant No.: 5600155003602 Project type: Institutional support Sector : Water Country : Niger Environmental category (1-3): 3 Processing milestones (grant) Key events (grant) Disbursement and closing dates (grant) Date approved: 20 December 2013 Cancelled amounts: Nil Date of 1st disbursement: July 2014 Date signed: 16 April 2014 Supplementary financing: Original closing date: 31 October 2016 Swiss-Luxembourg Coop: (CFAF 252 600 000) DANIDA (CFAF 220 000 000), OXFAM-GB: (CFAF 60 000 000) Government of Niger: CFAF 249 919 617 Date of entry into force: 12 June 2014 Restructuring (specify date & amount Revised (if applicable) closing involved): - disbursement date: 30 November 2018 Date effective for 1st disbursement: Extensions (last disbursement): 30/11/18 Revised (if applicable) closing date: 30 July 2014 November 2018 Date of actual 1st disbursement: July 2014 Committed amount Percentage Uncommitted Percentage Financing source (Euros): (Euros): Committed amount (Euros): uncommitted (%): (%):: AWF 876 650.77 88 121 349 12 1 DANIDA 335 388 100 0 0 Swiss-LUX DEV Coop* 385 082 100 0 0 OXFAM* 91469 100 0 0 Government of Niger 381000 100 0 0 TOTAL 2 069 589.77 98 121 349 12 Financing source(UA): Disbursed amount Percentage Undisbursed Percentage (amount, Euros ):: disbursed (%): amount (Euros): undisbursed (%): AWF 876 650.77 88 121 349 12 DANIDA-LUX DEV* 335 388 100 0 0 Swiss-Lux DEV Cooperation 385 082 100 0 0 OXFAM* 91 469 100 0 0 Government of Niger 381 000 100 0 0 TOTAL 2 069 589.77 98 121 349 12 Co-financiers and other external partners: DANIDA-Lux Dev and OXFAM Executing and implementing agency: Ministry of Water and Sanitation through the PANGIRE Management Unit D Management review and comments Report reviewed by Name Date reviewed Comments Peer Review Division Manager Sector Director Resident Representative Regional Director 2 II Project performance assessment A Relevance 1. Relevance of project development objective Rating* Narrative assessment (max 250 words) 4 The development objective of the project is to improve the country's socio-economic situation and reduce the incidence of poverty through sustainable management and rational use of Niger's water resources. This development objective was defined on the basis of the Government’s vision to reduce the country’s poverty threshold from 50% in 2012 to 40% by 2025. The project is consistent with Niger’s various strategy papers and programmes: the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP 2008-2012), particularly its focus area No.2 relating to the development of productive sectors and job and income creation, the Water and Sanitation Sector Policy and Strategy Paper (2000), the Rural Development Strategy (SDR 2011-2015), Economic and Social Development Plan (PDES 2012-2015), the National Environmental Plan for Sustainable Development (PNEDD 1998), and the various instruments of the water and sanitation sector, namely: the Water Code, the National Water and Sanitation Commission and the Regional Water and Sanitation Commission (CNEA and CREA 2006), and the 2007 instrument relating to the establishment of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation (MHA) and the implementation of water policy in 2013. The project is aligned with the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1) which aims to reduce extreme poverty and hunger. It is also aligned with the Government’s 3N strategy, and the various sustainable development goals (SDGs). The project is fully in line with the shared vision and the Sustainable Development Action Plan (PADD) of the Niger River Basin adopted in 2007 and updated in 2012, the Water Resources Policy in West Africa (ECOWAS), developed in collaboration with WAEMU and CILSS (2008), the Regional Strategic Plan for Concerted Management of Water and Land Resources of the Lake Chad Basin, adopted in 1998 and revised in 2008, the AfDB's 2013-2022 Long-Term Strategy which seeks to achieve inclusive growth and transition to green growth. The project is also consistent with the African Water Vision 2025 and the Regional Plan of Action (PARGIRE/WA, 2000), the World Water Fora, the goals of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which was held in Johannesburg in 2002 and focused on the development of integrated plans for the management and rational use of water resources to accelerate economic and social development. The project helps to effectively combat poverty stemming from the effects of climate change and to boost the climate resilience of water sector development operations. In term of the relevance of its development objective, the project remains fully aligned with the various strategies outlined above For all ratings in the PCR use the following scale: 4 (Highly satisfactory), 3 (Satisfactory), 2 (Unsatisfactory), 1 (Highly unsatisfactory) 3 2. Relevance of project design Rating* Narrative assessment (max 250 words) 3 The project consists in developing PANGIRE and its investment programme, as well as the Priority Investment Programme (PIP). The project contributes to addressing the challenges pertaining to the sustainable management of the country's water resources. The project prepares investment projects in the water sector. The technical activities are accompanied by capacity building. All these activities should lead to sustainable socio-economic development, while enabling the achievement of the objectives of PANGIRE. The diagnosis led to the development of PANGIRE from which the Priority Investment Plan (PIP) was drawn. The implementation mechanism, in particular the institutional framework (the Project Management Unit (PMU), attached to the Directorate of Water Resources (DRE) of the Directorate General of Hydraulics (DGH) at the Ministry of Water and Sanitation (MHA), as well as the multi-stakeholder and interinstitutional Steering Committee), the procurement arrangements (in line with the Bank's current provisions), and the monitoring and evaluation system are relevant. However, reducing Niger’s poverty threshold by 10 percentage points between 2012 and 2025, as estimated at project design, was deemed too optimistic. 3. Lessons learned related to relevance Key issues Lessons learned Target audience (max 5, add rows as needed) 1. Project’s alignment with the 1. The project is fully aligned with the water and 1. The technical country strategy sanitation sector strategy developed by Niger’s authorities, services of the the IWRM strategy and its adoption, and addresses the MHA, the people country's needs with respect to the effects of climate of Niger change. It is an indispensable element for ownership of the outcomes by the authorities and the donors. B Effectiveness 1. Progress towards the project’s development objective (project purpose) Comments The project's development objective is to help reduce poverty reduction, particularly from a threshold of 50% in 2012 to 40% by 2025. The project will not make it possible to achieve this rate by 2025, given the failure to mobilize financing for PANGIRE at the round table of the Economic and Social Development Plan (PDES) that was organized in place of the originally planned PANGIRE donors’ roundtable. This delayed the implementation of PANGIRE activities. Even though financing was secured and the infrastructure built, this project’s outcomes may not achieve the goal of reducing the poverty threshold by 10 percentage points, from 50% in 2012 to 40%, by 2025. Other factors and projects may help achieve this goal. All the products of components 1 and 2 were achieved. Important project documents, including the document on PANGIRE and the one on PIP, have been produced and approved. These flagship products of the project are available. Regarding component 3, the project completion report is yet to be produced, but will be at the end of the project. Only the financing for PANGIRE projects is still to be mobilised. Once the documents are produced and approved, the Government can at any time seek financingfinancing from the main development partners. 4 2. Outcome reporting Outcome indicators (as Baseline Most recent value End target (B) Progress Narrative assessment Core per RLF; add more rows as value (2013) (A) (expected value at towards (indicative max length: 50 words per outcome) Sector needed) project completion) target Indicator (% realized) (Yes/No) [A/B) ] Indicator 1: 60% Three sector-based programming documents are Yes 0 60% of sector- 100 The sector-based and adopted by the Government and available at the based and cross- cross-cutting programme
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