SOUTH ASIA Bangladesh Financial Management Global Practice Recipient Executed Activities Technical Assistance Loan FY 2011 Seq No: 4 ARCHIVED on 26-Feb-2015 ISR18034 Implementing Agencies: Key Dates Key Project Dates Board Approval date:30-aug-2010 Planned Mid Term Review Date:10-Dec-2012 Original Closing Date:30-Jun-2014 Project Development Objectives Effectiveness Date:29-Aug-2010 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:18-Feb-2013 Revised Closing Date:31-Dec-2015 Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The key project development objectives are to strengthen and institutionalize the Parliament Secretariat support system, improve quality and efficiency of legislative oversight on use of public funds and enhance public access to information about the parliamentary financial oversight committees. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured)phrpdodel The new project development objective is to modernize the business processes followed by the financial oversight committees of the Parliament of Bangladesh. Components Name Component 1: Sustainability Plan and Roll-out of MIS assisted Business Processes in Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat:(Cost $330000.00 M) Project Management and Coordination::(Cost $170000.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Risk Rating -- Moderate 2/26/2015 Page 1 of 5
Implementation Status and Key Decisions 1. To complete the core prioritized activities, the project closing date has been extended from July 30, 2014 to December 31, 2015. The original PDO has been changed to reflect the revised scope of activities to be implemented during the extended period of project implementation. The new PDO is to modernize the business processes followed by the financial oversight committees of the Parliament of Bangladesh. The PDO continues to be Moderately Satisfactory and implementation progress was considered to be Moderately Unsatisfactory. 2. During September 2014 mission, the project readiness to begin implementation of the activities in the extension period was mainly reviewed. The need to revise TPP, procurement plan, finalization of MISC consultant with revised scope of work and contract amendment was reviewed. The detailed implementation plan for completion of planned activities and achievement of planned results by the closing date was reviewed. 3. The project had its first post restructured project Steering Committee meeting chaired by the Secretary on August 10, 2014. The meeting was attended by concerned stakeholders - Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission and ERD which took a number of decisions to expedite project implementation: (i) assignment of the joint secretary and deputy secretary to act as project director and deputy project director in addition to the existing responsibility during the extended period; (ii) Approval of budget for FY 2014-15 as per the allocation of the ADP (iii) Approval of I year project extension period (iv) Continuation of consultancy service with Oxford Policy Management (OPM) to complete activities related to MIS as per the agreed TOR and (v) finalization of contract amendment in consultation with the Bank. 4. Despite agreed action to complete procurement processes related to MISC by September 15, 2014 and signing of contract with OPM by October 30, 2014, none of these actions were implemented as per the plan. The contract was finally signed after a time lag of 2 months i.e in December 2014 which made the project implementation further challenging. With 11 months remaining of the implementation period, the parliament secretariat assigned a new PD with a view to expedite project implementation. A high level meeting with the Speaker took a number of decisions to monitor consultant firm s deliverables in accordance with work plan. Project management team was also expanded with inclusion of a new IT expert. If the proactivity of project management team and the parliament secretariat s commitment continues, it can be reasonably expected that the project will be able to achieve the PDO and targeted results by project closing. This will be further reviewed in the next mission which is expected in March 2015. 2/26/2015 Page 2 of 5
Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- -- Substantial Macroeconomic -- -- Low Sector Strategies and Policies -- -- Low Technical Design of Project or Program -- -- Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- -- Moderate Fiduciary -- -- Moderate Environment and Social -- -- Low Stakeholders -- -- Low Other -- -- Low Overall -- -- Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL FOC reports readily available on public website (Number, Custom) Value 0.00 0.00 9.00 4.00 Date 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-Dec-2014 30-Jun-2015 2/26/2015 Page 3 of 5
Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators Briefing notes completed using new MIS (Number, Custom) Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 60.00 Date 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2015 31-Dec-2015 Record of decisions produced using new MIS (Number, Custom) Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 35.00 Date 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2015 31-Dec-2015 Inquiry reports generated by the new MIS (Number, Custom) Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 12.00 Date 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 31-Dec-2015 Overall Comments No progress due to delay processing of MISC contract and start of MIS related activities. However the implmentation plan has been revised and included new timeline to complete project activities. Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed 2/26/2015 Page 4 of 5
P119139 TF-97134 Effective USD 5.00 4.20 0.80 3.48 0.72 83% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P119139 TF-97134 Effective 29-Aug-2010 29-Aug-2010 29-Aug-2010 30-Jun-2014 31-Dec-2015 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 1 Approved on 30-Jun-2014 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 2/26/2015 Page 5 of 5