SL-Decentralized Service Delivery Program

Abstract*

The objective of the Decentralized Service Delivery Program Project for Sierra Leone is to support decentralized delivery of basic services: (a) to strengthen Government capacity to manage decentralized services; (b) to improve the availability and predictability of Local Councils' (LCs) funding; and (c) to strengthen the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system. The project has three components: (1) grants to LCs to supplement the central budget... Show More

Development Objective

The overall objective of the program (APL) is to support decentralized delivery of basic services in Sierra Leone. The development objective of Phase I of the program is: (a) to strengthen Government capacity to manage decentralized services; (b) to improve the availability and predictability of Local Councils' funding; and (c) to strengthen the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system.

Key Details

Project Details

Project ID
P113757
Status
Closed
Team Leader
Qaiser Khan
Borrower 2
N/A

Country
Sierra Leone
Disclosure Date
December 30, 2008
Approval Date
(as of board presentation)
October 15, 2009
Effective Date
February 15, 2010

Total Project Cost 1
US$ 20.00 million
Implementing Agency
N/A
Region
Western and Central Africa
Fiscal Year 3
2010

Commitment Amount
US$ 20.00 million
Environmental Category
B
Environmental and Social Risk
Not Applicable
Closing Date
June 29, 2012

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

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 - Health Systems and Policies33%
- FY17 - Adolescent Health8%
- FY17 - Child Health8%
- FY17 - Health Service Delivery17%

FY17 - Public Sector Management

FY17 - Public Administration33%
- FY17 - Municipal Institution Building33%

FY17 - Social Development and Protection

FY17 - Social Protection34%
- FY17 - Social Safety Nets34%

Project Map

Interactive Map

Finances

Financing Plan (US$ Millions)

Financier	Commitments
IDA Credit	20.00

Total Project Financing (US$ Millions)

Product Line	IBRD/IDA
IBRD Commitment	N/A
IDA Commitment	20.00
IBRD + IDA Commitment	20.00

Lending Instrument
Grant Amount	N/A
Total Project Cost**	20.00

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$)
Jul 25, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	5,611.21
Jul 25, 2023	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	172,340.42
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	198.25
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	198.25
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	170,673.19
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	35.56
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	35.56
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	58,115.60
Jan 17, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	58,115.60
Oct 15, 2009	IDA-46560	Loan Commitment	20,000,000.00
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	771.76
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	771.76
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	171,805.62
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	7.17
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	7.17
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	55,815.36
Aug 14, 2024	IDA-46560	Int Charges	55,815.36
Jul 16, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	433.08
Jul 16, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	433.08
Jan 15, 2020	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	44.05
Jan 16, 2020	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	177,241.64
Jan 16, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,099.66
Jan 16, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,099.66
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	179,006.83
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	3.73
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	3.73
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	60,021.92
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	60,021.92
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,395.92
Jul 22, 2020	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,395.92
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	26.94
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,183.86
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,183.86
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	6,640.09
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	6,640.09
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	184,730.61
Jan 15, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	26.94
Jul 22, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	3,657.26
Jul 22, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	3,657.26
Jul 22, 2021	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	182,369.53
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	819.99
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	819.99
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	0.32
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	0.32
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,166.13
Jan 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,166.13
Jul 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,063.51
Jul 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,063.51
Jul 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	591.56
Jul 15, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	591.56
Jul 25, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,250.44
Jul 25, 2017	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,250.44
Jan 15, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,007.89
Jan 15, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,007.89
Jan 15, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	67,939.27
Jan 15, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	67,939.27
Jul 19, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	952.22
Jul 19, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	952.22
Jul 19, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	67,207.41
Jul 19, 2018	IDA-46560	Int Charges	67,207.41
Jan 15, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,501.80
Jan 15, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,501.80
Jan 22, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,947.66
Jan 22, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,947.66
Jul 16, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	66,437.43
Jul 16, 2019	IDA-46560	Int Charges	66,437.43
Jul 16, 2013	IDA-46560	Int Charges	71,669.97
Jul 16, 2013	IDA-46560	Int Charges	689.52
Jul 16, 2013	IDA-46560	Int Charges	689.52
Jul 16, 2013	IDA-46560	Int Charges	71,669.97
Jan 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	681.01
Jan 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	681.01
Jan 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	73,478.34
Jan 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	73,478.34
Jan 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	121.38
Jan 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	121.38
Jan 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	68,655.51
Jan 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	68,655.51
Jul 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	316.72
Jul 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	316.72
Jul 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	74,176.55
Jul 15, 2014	IDA-46560	Int Charges	74,176.55
Jul 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,761.41
Jul 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,761.41
Jul 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,455.14
Jul 15, 2015	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,455.14
Jan 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	883.00
Jan 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	883.00
Jan 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,656.88
Jan 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,656.88
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,500.11
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	1,500.11
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	25.48
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	25.48
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	26.33
Aug 26, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	480.75
Aug 26, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	480.75
Aug 26, 2022	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	167,554.16
Aug 26, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	59,691.18
Aug 26, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	59,691.18
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	2,965.57
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	177,596.94
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,484.41
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	4,235.65
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Loan Repay	168,697.28
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	147.70
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	147.70
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	55,328.34
Jan 15, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	55,328.34
Jul 25, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	59,903.54
Jul 25, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	59,903.54
Jul 25, 2023	IDA-46560	Int Charges	5,611.21
Jul 22, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	66,336.91
Jul 22, 2021	IDA-46560	Int Charges	66,336.91
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	64,484.41
Jan 15, 2022	IDA-46560	Int Charges	26.33
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,513.01
Jul 15, 2016	IDA-46560	Int Charges	65,513.01

Footnotes

Ratings

IMPLEMENTATION RATINGS

Name	Review	Date
Project Management	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Progress towards achievement of PDO	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Counterpart Funding	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Monitoring and Evaluation	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Procurement	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Financial Management	Satisfactory	2012-06-19
Overall Implementation Progress (IP)	Satisfactory	2012-06-19

COMPLETION RATINGS

INDICATOR	IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION & RESULTS REPORT: 06-19-2013
Outcomes	Moderately Satisfactory
Risk to Development Outcome	Substantial
Bank Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Borrower Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Government Performance	Moderately Satisfactory
Implementing Agency	Substantial

INDEPENDENT EVALUATION RATINGS

INDICATOR	ICR REVIEW: 10-24-2013	PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT REPORT:
Outcome Rating	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Risk To Development Outcome	Significant	N/a
Bank Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Borrower Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Government Performance	Satisfactory	N/a
Implementing Agency	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Icr Quality	Satisfactory	N/a
M&e Quality	Modest	N/a

Results Framework

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Number of grants for expenditures (excluding wages and interest obligations) in education, health and sanitation, water, and solid waste management sectors	Value	9.00	6.00	4.00
	Date	August 1, 2009	December 2, 2011	December 31, 2011
	Comment	Initially each council recieved 9 separate grants for the following sectors: (a) health, (b) education; (c) rural water; and (d)sanitation.	to be measured annually	In practice reducing 9 separate grants in (a) health, (b) education; (c) rural water; and (d) sanitation and solid waste to 6proved impossible. This was because of the need to keep funding for primary and secondary levels separate in education and health.It was increased to 6 allowing two grants each for education and health. This change was reported to the Board during approval ofthe second phase of the APL since it was a trigger for Phase II.

Transfer of funds to LocalCouncils as a percentage of total GoSL expenditures	Value	6.00	5.00	6.00
	Date	August 3, 2009	December 30, 2011	December 30, 2011
	Comment		End of FY data. While there was a real increase in transfer of funds to local councils more than expected at appraisal, agitationby civil servantsled to much larger than expected increases of the salary share of the budget. Thus the share of transfers to localcouncils fell asashare of total Government expenditures but increased as a share on non-salary non-interest expenditures to 11%.

Number of Councils meetingat least 75 percent of serviceoutputtargets specified in LCSubsidiary Agreement	Value	0.00	11.00	15.00
	Date	August 3, 2009	May 24, 2012	December 30, 2011
	Comment		The short fall is due to the fact that many councils stretched out some of the projects over a couple of years due to funding ineach not being enough to complete certain projects. This affected bulk projects like water supply systems.

Percentage of domestic revenues (excluding wages, interest obligations, and statutory transfers to Recipient's National Revenue Agency and Road Fund) transferred to Local Councils on an annual basis	Value	29.60	34.00	30.00
	Date	August 1, 2009	May 24, 2012	December 31, 2011
	Comment		Based on all four quarters 2011

INTERMEDIATE RESULTS INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Number of Councils with integrated development plans and budgets (finalized in accordance with sector plans) before the start of the FY.	Value	0.00	19.00	19.00
	Date	August 1, 2009	May 24, 2012	December 31, 2011
	Comment

Number of Councils with procurement plans (which include LC transfers and DSDP funds). Value 0.00 19.00 19.00
Date August 1, 2009 December 2, 2011 December 31, 2011
Comment

Number of Councils with January-September budgete xecution rates of 90 percentof available funds.	Value	12.00	19.00	19.00
	Date	August 3, 2009	December 2, 2011	December 30, 2011
	Comment		Values for 2010 exceeded 100% because of carryover funds.

Percentage of wardcommittees holding public meetings and reporting to Councils as part of the annual development plan updatingand execution cycle.	Value	0.00	73.00	75.00
	Date	August 3, 2009	May 24, 2012	December 30, 2011
	Comment	not available

Percentage of Ward Committes Holding Public Meetings and reporting to councils as part of annual development updating cycle	Value	0.00	90.00	0.00
	Date		May 24, 2012
	Comment	Not available	This data cannot be verified and is based on observations of election council members who are also ward committee secretaries.

Percentage of Ward Committees conducting spot checks on service providers (in health, education and water supply)	Value	0.00	90.00	65.00
	Date		May 24, 2012	December 30, 2011
	Comment		Again the data is sporadic based on supervision missions and cannot be verified fully.

Number of Councils whose M&E units receive, process and transmit to key stakeholders data related to sector activities Value 13.00 19.00 0.00
Date June 30, 2009 May 24, 2012
Comment
Number of Councils producing annual updates on development plans Value 0.00 19.00 12.00
Date June 30, 2009 May 24, 2012 December 30, 2011
Comment

Number of National Public Service Perception Surveys conducted	Value	0.00	4.00	5.00
	Date		May 24, 2012	December 30, 2011
	Comment		The fourth survey combined three existing surveys and became a more intensive one and heavier to administer than expected.

Number of Councils Receiving Transfers from consolidated revenue funds at the beginning of the quarter Value 19.00 19.00 19.00
Date June 30, 2009 May 24, 2012 December 30, 2011
Comment
Number of Councils receving DSDP project transfers quarterly Value 0.00 19.00 19.00
Date June 30, 2009 May 24, 2012 December 30, 2011
Comment

Number of Councils whose M&E units receive, process and transmit to key stakeholders data related to sector activities	Value	13.00	19.00	0.00
	Date	June 30, 2009	May 24, 2012
	Comment