📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173582
Region: middle east and north africa
Approval Date (as of board presentation): December 17, 2020
Commitment Amount: Us$ 503.90 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 503.90 million
Borrower : United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Development Objective
The project development objective is to provide cash transfers, temporary employment, and increased access to basic services and eco nomic opportunities to food-insecure populations affected by COVID-19, the conflict and climate-related shocks, as well as to streng then the capacity of national institutions.
The proposed Project builds on ECRP to deliver support to vulnerable Yemenis affected by conflict, COVID-19 and climate-related shocks. The Project will mainly target food insecure households and focus on interventions that are most effective at addressingfood insecurity. Given the short-term food security needs, most of the Project funds are expected to be used to provide CTs to vulnerable households. This includes unconditional cash transfers to SWF beneficiaries as well as cash top ups and complementaryservices for SWF families that are most at risk of malnutrition. For vulnerable people that are able to work, the Project will continue to engage with communities to provide temporary employment opportunities to build valuable community assets, prioritizing community projects that contribute to food security, climate resilience and anchoring gender sensitive interventions. And in an effort to address food insecurity more sustainably, the Project will continue to provide economic opportunities to vulnerablepopulations through support to SMEs, with an emphasis on food market resilience and market-based mechanisms. Similar to the ECRP, Project interventions will incorporateCOVID-19-sensitive measures. The Project seeks to significantly strengthen the capacity and role of national institutions. The Project will support the World Bank’s strategy to gradually increase reliance on national institutions to deliver IDA support to Yemen, with the ultimate goal of working directly with credible institutions like SFD as IDA recipients. To this end, the Project will transfer the direct Implementation of the CT program from UNICEF to SFD, while keeping UNICEF as the IDA Grant recipient for the CT component. This has been done in consultation with SFD, authorities, SWF and UNICEF, and based on a comprehensive capacity assessment of SFD, an institution the Bank has been working with since 1997. SFD has established a strong delivery record and reputation as a capable, credible and politically neutral national institution that has functional presence/access to almost all 333 districts in the country. In paralell to the Project, the World Bank will explore ways to establish a direct
