Protection of Basic Services

Abstract*

The Ethiopia Protection of Basic Services Project aims to protect and promote the delivery of basic services by sub-national governments while deepening transparency and local accountability in service delivery. The Project has four components: Component 1 maintains the delivery of basic services provided by regional and local governments, comprising: (a) financing of sub-national delivery of basic services; and (b) monitoring the level and timeliness... Show More

Development Objective

The project development objective of the PBS operation is to protect and promote the delivery of basic services by sub-national governments while deepening transparency and local accountability in service delivery.The Project has four components:Component 1 on the Basic Services Sub-Program to maintain the delivery of basic services provided by regional and local governments, comprising: (a) financing of sub-national delivery of basic services; and (b) monitoring of (i) the level and timeliness of funding allocations for basic services to ensure additionality targets are met, (ii) the fair application of distributional rules, and (iii) actual spending levels on basic services and its distribution.Component 2 on the Health MDG Performance Facility Sub-Program to provide predictable financing for those critical inputs for primary health service delivery subprogram that cannot be efficiently financed at Woreda level through the block-grant supported under Component 1. It will support three types of activities: (i) procurement and distribution of critical health Commodities; (ii) Capacity building; and (iii) Strengthening of procurement and logistics.Component 3 on Government Systems on Financial Transparency and Accountability Sub-Program which will support activities at the Regional/City Administrations, Woreda and sub-Woreda levels to significantly enhance transparency around public budget procedures (budget preparation, expenditure and audits); and, foster broad engagement, strengthened voice and client power of citizen representative groups and citizens more broadly on public budget processes and public service delivery.Component 4 on Social Accountability, will through a World Bank administered Multi-donor Trust Fund, support capacity-building for, and piloting of, selected large-scale pilot initiatives aimed at stregtheningcitizen voice and enhancing accountability of public sector service providers to citizens. These pilot initiatives will be implemented by CSOs. The component will also work to build demand-side pressure for accountability to public budgeting process and will build capacity of citizens to engage in the public budget process.

Key Details

Project Details

Project ID
P074015
Status
Closed
Team Leader
Robert Chase
Borrower 2
N/A

Country
Ethiopia
Disclosure Date
January 20, 2006
Approval Date
(as of board presentation)
May 25, 2006
Effective Date
June 2, 2006

Total Project Cost 1
US$ 2562.91 million
Implementing Agency
N/A
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa
Fiscal Year 3
2006

Commitment Amount
US$ 532.16 million
Environmental Category
B
Environmental and Social Risk
Not Applicable
Closing Date
December 31, 2010

Last Stage Reached
BANK APPROVED
Last Update Date
January 15, 2013

Associated Projects
P106559

Notes
1. Total project cost includes funding from World Bank and non-bank sources in US$ millions. Active and Closed projects show current commitments. Proposed (pipeline) and dropped projects show the forecast amount. The commitment amount for projects in the pipeline is indicative and may be modified during the project preparation.
2. Borrower refers to the Borrower of a Loan or Recipient of a Grant.
3. ”Fiscal Year” is the fiscal year in which the project was approved (or dropped if the status is dropped). The World Bank's fiscal year is from July 1 - June 30. For example, a fiscal year of 1996 corresponds to July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996.

Sectors

Themes

FY17 - Human Development and Gender

FY17 - Disease Control17%
- FY17 - Malaria17%

FY17 - Public Sector Management

FY17 - Public Administration42%
- FY17 - Municipal Institution Building33%
- FY17 - Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance9%
FY17 - Public Finance Management9%
- FY17 - Public Expenditure Management9%

FY17 - Social Development and Protection

FY17 - Social Inclusion17%
- FY17 - Participation and Civic Engagement17%
FY17 - Social Protection16%
- FY17 - Social Insurance and Pensions16%

Project Map

Interactive Map

Finances

Financing Plan (US$ Millions)

Financier	Commitments
Borrower/Recipient	2030.75
UK: British Department for International Development (DFID)	296.55
Bilateral Agencies (unidentified)	3.86
IDA Grant	215.00
CANADA: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)	15.75
IRELAND, Govt. of	1.00

Total Project Financing (US$ Millions)

Product Line	IBRD/IDA
IBRD Commitment	N/A
IDA Commitment	215.00
IBRD + IDA Commitment	215.00

Lending Instrument
Grant Amount	317.16
Total Project Cost**	2562.91

Summary Status of World Bank Financing (US$ Millions) as of July 31, 2025

No data available.

Detailed Financial Activity as of July 31, 2025

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Period	Financier	Transaction Type	Amount (US$)
May 25, 2006	IDA-H2240	Loan Commitment	215,000,000.00
Dec 20, 2007	IDA-H3470	Loan Commitment	215,000,000.00

Footnotes

Ratings

IMPLEMENTATION RATINGS

Name	Review	Date
Project Management	Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Monitoring and Evaluation	Moderately Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Progress towards achievement of PDO	Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Overall Implementation Progress (IP)	Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Counterpart Funding	Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Overall Safeguards Rating	Moderately Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Procurement	Moderately Satisfactory	2009-12-30
Financial Management	Moderately Satisfactory	2009-12-30

COMPLETION RATINGS

INDICATOR	IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION & RESULTS REPORT: 06-30-2010
Outcomes	Substantial
Risk to Development Outcome	Modest
Bank Performance	Substantial
Borrower Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Government Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Implementing Agency	Moderately Satisfactory

INDEPENDENT EVALUATION RATINGS

INDICATOR	ICR REVIEW: 12-30-2013	PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT REPORT: 04-02-2013
Outcome Rating	Moderately Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory
Risk To Development Outcome	Significant	Significant
Bank Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	Moderately Unsatisfactory
Borrower Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	Moderately Unsatisfactory
Government Performance	Not Rated	Moderately Satisfactory
Implementing Agency	Not Rated	Moderately Unsatisfactory
Icr Quality	Not Rated	Unsatisfactory
M&e Quality	Not Rated	Modest

Results Framework

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Sub-national governments' expenditures on basic services (regional bureaus and woredas, excluding Addis Ababa)	Value	Birr 4346 million	EFY98 = Birr 5690 million EFY99 = Birr 6833 milli	EFY01 = Birr 11743.7 million
	Date	July 7, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Citizens have improved access to public budget information	Value	Zero	EFY99: all regions and 82% of woredas posted budge	Increasing number of citizens informed about how t
	Date	July 7, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Sound baseline information made available showing citizens' understanding of, and engagement in, public budget processes.	Value	Not applicable.	First (baseline) FTAPS completed in Dec. 2008. Fin	First FTAPS completed in April 2008; and one year
	Date	July 7, 2005	May 22, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment			Follow-up FTAPs will not be conducted under PBS1

Immunization DPTS/Penta under 1 (number of children per year)	Value	(i) 70.1%; and (ii) 61.3%	EFY98 = (i) 75.6%; and (ii) 65.6% EFY99 = (i) 72.	EFY01: (i) 83.0%; and (ii) 73.0%
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Contraceptive Prevalence Women ages 15-49% Value EFY98 = 35.8%EFY99=33.3%EFY00 = 50.9% EFY98 = 35.8% EFY99 = 33.3% EFY00=50.9% EFY01=5 EFY 01 = 57%
Date July 7, 2005 October 1, 2009 June 30, 2009
Comment

(i) Malaria case fatality under 1 year of age; and (ii) Malaria case fatality under 5 years of age.	Value	EFY 97 = (i) 13.1%; (ii) 4.3%	EFY00= (i) 11.24 (ii) 2.2%	EFY 01= 10.68 (5% reduction compared to previous y
	Date	July 7, 2005	November 12, 2008	June 30, 2009
	Comment

New malaria cases Value EFY98 = 630654 EFY99 = 370315 EFY00 = 463055
Date April 30, 2009
Comment

INTERMEDIATE RESULTS INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

% of public service delivery facilities by type that post in their facility standard "service delivery template" with completed information on budgets, resources inputs, service standards.	Value	Templates for posting budget information were not	EFY00: Draft Service Delivery Templates were devel	15% of coverage over time and 40% coverage by proj
	Date	June 30, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Number of woredas that post "laypersons" budgets.	Value	Laypersons budgets were not developed/posted prior	EFY00: Draft Laypersons# Budget Templates were de	50% coverage by project end.
	Date	June 30, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Strengthened engagement of CSOs on budget literacy and social accountability.	Value	Not done prior to PBS Project	EFY99 = 2 demonstration subprojects on budget lite	At least 6 large pilot initiatives on social accou
	Date	June 30, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

New, introduced following the MTR: Improved dialogue between Government and CSOs on social accountability and basic services delivery issues.	Value	Not available	EFY99 - N.A. EFY00 and EFY01: PBS supported 12 CS	GoE and CSO collaboration on monitoring and learni
	Date	June 30, 2005	November 12, 2008	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Distribution of hormonal contraceptives by Couple-of-Years Protection (CYP) Prevalence distributed by MOH to Regional Health Bureaus.	Value	1.07 million	EFY98 = 1.38 million EFY99 = not available EFY00	8.75 million
	Date	June 30, 2005	November 12, 2008	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Number of health extension workers deployed per rural kebele Value 0.27 EFY 98 - 0.89 EFY 99 = 1.1 EFY00 = 1.42 EFY 01 1.3
Date June 30, 2005 October 1, 2009 June 30, 2009
Comment
Number of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets distributed Value 3 million EFY 98 = 8.5 million; 11.5 million cumulative EFY 20.0 million cumulative
Date July 7, 2005 October 1, 2009 June 30, 2009
Comment

Aggregate level of block grant transfers Federal to regional governments (from treasury)	Value	EFY97 = Birr 5,556 million	EFY 98 = Birr 7071 million EFY 99 = Birr 9365 mil	EFY01 = Birr 17,556 million
	Date	July 7, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Transfers of block grants to local governments made in accordance with intergovernmental fiscal rules	Value	Following inter-governmental fiscal rules	EFY99, EFY00, EFY01: Transfers of block grants to	Following inter-governmental fiscal rules
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

NEW - Pharmaceuticals and medical equipment procured (US$)	Value	0	EFY01=$15.5 million (Pharmaceuticals) and $50.6 mi	$22.5 million (Pharmaceuticals)$51.5 million (Medi
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

NEW - Contraceptives procured (US$) Value 0 $29.7 million $29.5 million
Date July 7, 2005 October 1, 2009 June 30, 2009
Comment

NEW - Teachers recruited into education system (number)	Value	Total 188,720 (Primary (1-8): 171,079; Secondary:	EFY99: Total - 253,506; Primary (grades 1-8) - 225
	Date	June 30, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment		Note that these figures have been computed without considering attrition.

Number of regions and woredas that disclose public budget information at regional, woreda and sub-woreda levels.	Value	Disclosure of public budget information not done a	EFY99: MOFED, all regions and 82% of woredas poste	MOFED and all BOFEDs disclose budget and 85% of wo
	Date	June 30, 2005	June 30, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Contraceptive Prevalence Women ages 15-49%	Value	EFY98 = 35.8%EFY99=33.3%EFY00 = 50.9%	EFY98 = 35.8% EFY99 = 33.3% EFY00=50.9% EFY01=5	EFY 01 = 57%
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

New malaria cases	Value	EFY98 = 630654 EFY99 = 370315 EFY00 = 463055
	Date	April 30, 2009
	Comment

Number of health extension workers deployed per rural kebele	Value	0.27	EFY 98 - 0.89 EFY 99 = 1.1 EFY00 = 1.42 EFY 01	1.3
	Date	June 30, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

Number of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets distributed	Value	3 million	EFY 98 = 8.5 million; 11.5 million cumulative EFY	20.0 million cumulative
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment

NEW - Contraceptives procured (US$)	Value	0	$29.7 million	$29.5 million
	Date	July 7, 2005	October 1, 2009	June 30, 2009
	Comment