Public Disclosure Authorized AFRICA Western Africa Transport & ICT Global Practice IBRD/IDA Adaptable Program Loan FY 2011 Seq No: 9 ARCHIVED on 03-Feb-2016 ISR21999 Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and New Information, Ministry of Information and Comminications Infrastructure, Ministère du Développement de l'economie Numérique et des Postes du Burkina Faso Public Disclosure Authorized Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:21-Jun-2011 Planned Mid Term Review Date:28-Apr-2014 Original Closing Date:31-Dec-2016 Project Development Objectives Effectiveness Date:31-Oct-2011 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:02-Jun-2014 Revised Closing Date:31-Dec-2016 Public Disclosure Authorized Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The development objective of WARCIP is to increase the geographical reach of broadband networks and reduce costs of communications services in West Africa. For APL1B, the Project's development objectives are to contribute to increasing the geographical reach of broadband networks and to reducing the costs of communications services in each of the territories of The Gambia, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Public Disclosure Authorized Name Burkina Faso: Component 1- Supporting Connectivity:(Cost $17.30 M) Burkina Faso: Component 2- Enabling Environment for Connectivity:(Cost $3.68 M) Burkina Faso: Component 3- Project implementation and Contingency:(Cost $1.26 M) Guinea: Component 1- Supporting Connectivity:(Cost $25.00 M) Guinea: Component 2- Creating an Enabling Environment for improved connectivity:(cost $6.80 M) Guinea: Component 3- Project implementation:(cost $2.00 M) Gambia: Component 1- Supporting Connectivity:(Cost $25.75 M) Gambia: Component 2- Creating an Enabling Environment for improved connectivity:(cost $7.25 M) Gambia: Component 3- Project implementation, communications and M&E including contingency:(cost $2.00 M) 2/3/2016 Page 1 of 13
Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating -- Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions Burkina Faso - The Implementation Support mission was conducted remotely in September 2015. The project implementation is progressing but significant delays have been suffered in the realization of key activities, namely the construction of the fiber optic between Ouagadougou and Paga (Ghana border), and the completion of studies related to the creation of the VLP (virtual landing station), which will allow for the acquisition of the international bandwidth. Nevertheless, the implementing agencies and more broadly the Government of Burkina Faso continue to demonstrate a strong commitment toward the WARCIP-Burkina Faso project and toward the development of the ICT sector in general (as demonstrated by the request to explore further opportunities to develop egovernment initiatives). The Bank is closely working with the autorities and the implementation unit to ensure that sustained efforts are maintained to finalize the key activities of the project. In parallel, the activities related to the 'enabling environment' component of the project are progressing in a satisfactory manner. Good progress have been achieved on most PDO indicators targets. One can expect that the project indicators should reach their targets by the end of the project. Guinea Implementation Support conducted remotely during the presidential campaign and elections campaign. The project in Guinea has already exceeded most of its initial targets. The project included new indicators and targets for the remaining implementation period. These indicators have been included in the PLR (Performance & Learning Review) for Guinea, and the CPF (Country Partnership Framework) Matrix has been updated accordingly. The project's progress toward PDO achievement remains satisfactory, as shown by the PDO and Intermediary indicators. Also, from the institutional point of view, the Government of Guinea has demonstrated strong ownership and willingness to move the ICT agenda forward: (i) the new legal and regulatory framework is now adopted. It clarifed many issues not addressed in the current law. It also re-assures investors, in particular the GUILAB shareholders; (ii) there is a newly etablished National Council of Regulation (the regulator's college), which oversees the activities of the Secretariat. This will certainly make a significant difference in the role played by the regulatory authority and improve its relationship with the operators on the medium term. As a governing body of the ARPT, the Council improves transparency in the management of the regulator; and (iii) the Government is willing to operationalize the Universal Access Fund, to which all operators have been contributing for years. Managed by the ARPT, this fund will allow the operators to extend their coverage in zones where there's market failure. Management of GUILAB (the company managing the ACE landing station) should launch a review of the company's current legal status to incentivize investment and price reduction at the retail level. Meanwhile, the project continues to launch studies critical to the sector: (i) the redelegation of the domain name.gn; (ii) the review of the current taxation; and (iii) the update of the broadband strategy for Guinea. The installation of a new IXP in Conakry should reduce Guinea's dependence to international capacity. These on-going activities are facing some delays due to the elections (October - December) last year. An extension of the closing date may be necessary to successfully complete these activities. The Gambia Implementation Support mission conducted between June 15-19, 2015. Since the operationalization of the new bandwidth capacity from the African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable in December of 2012, the wholesale price of international E1 capacity has been reduced by 80 percent and the geographical reach of mobile broadband is gradually increasing, which reflects good progress towards the PDO. The project willl close March 2016 and there is a significant number of consultancies to be implemented. Although the overall disbursement rate is good at 80%, disbursements for the remaining funds in the past two years has been 4-5%. This has led to three out of four of the PDO level results indicators being met, however, there is a need to implement the consultancies in order to create an enabling market environment for the benefits of ACE to reach the people of The Gambia. This will require promoting competition among the telecom operators and Internet providers so that retail prices come down to reflect the reduction in wholesale bandwidth. 2/3/2016 Page 2 of 13
Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- -- Substantial Macroeconomic -- -- Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies -- -- Moderate 2/3/2016 Page 3 of 13
Technical Design of Project or Program -- -- Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- -- Substantial Fiduciary -- -- Moderate Environment and Social -- -- Moderate Stakeholders -- -- Moderate Other -- -- -- Overall -- -- Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators Average monthly price of wholesale international E1 capacity link from capital city to Europe (US$/month/2Mbit/s) (Amount(USD), Custom) Gambia: Average monthly price of wholesale international E1 capacity link from capital city to Europe (US$/month/2Mbit/s) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 5000.00 500.00 0.00 1000.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 21-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 Guinea: Average monthly price of wholesale international E1 capacity link from capital city to Europe (US$/month/2Mbit/s) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 8000.00 1600.00 1400.00 1400.00 Date 30-Sep-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 2/3/2016 Page 4 of 13
Burkina Faso: Average monthly price of wholesale international E1 capacity link from capital city to Europe (US$/month/2Mbit/s) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 9000.00 3146.00 2035.00 2500.00 Access to Telephone Services (fixed mainlines plus cellular phones per 100 people) (Number, Core) Guinea: Access to Telephone Services (fixed mainlines plus cellular phones per 100 people) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 34.70 83.62 92.00 47.50 Date 30-Sep-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Burkina Faso: Access to Telephone Services (fixed mainlines plus cellular phones per 100 people) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 37.20 70.73 79.56 62.00 Volume of international traffic: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth per person (kbit/per person) (Number, Custom) 2/3/2016 Page 5 of 13
Gambia: Volume of international traffic: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth per person (kbit/perperson) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 10.00 60.00 528.00 30.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 21-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 Guinea: Volume of international traffic: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth per person (kbit/perperson) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 5.00 71.10 84.00 85.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Burkina Faso: Volume of international traffic: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth per person (kbit/per person) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 28.00 2.25 130.00 74.00 Access to Internet Services (number of subscribers per 100 people) (Number, Core) 2/3/2016 Page 6 of 13
Gambia: Access to Internet Services (number of subscribers per 100 people) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.75 9.70 27.60 3.00 Date 30-Sep-2010 21-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 Guinea: Access to Internet Services (number of subscribers per 100 people) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.30 20.00 22.85 0.70 Date 31-Dec-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Burkina Faso: Access to Internet Services (number of subscribers per 100 people) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.20 9.40 13.24 0.60 Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Core) Gambia: Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Custom Breakdown) 2/3/2016 Page 7 of 13
Value 1600000.00 1600000.00 1600000.00 1800000.00 Date 30-Sep-2010 21-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 Gambia: female beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Value 44.00 40.00 44.00 51.00 Guinea: Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 3700000.00 7400000.00 7400000.00 5600000.00 Date 30-Sep-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Guinea: Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Value -- 29.00 29.00 -- Burkina Faso: Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 4594000.00 12620000.00 14224000.00 11326000.00 2/3/2016 Page 8 of 13
Burkina Faso: Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Value 51.00 51.75 51.75 51.00 Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Core Supplement) Overall Comments For The Gambia, the indicator "Average monthly price of wholesale international E1 capacity link from capital city to Europe" was met well before the mid-term review and since then Operators have stopped selling wholesale prices. Please note that indicators have been disaggregated by country. Therefore, the first indicator lines of the Results Framework are left empty: only the country-level indicators are updated. Intermediate Results Indicators Burkina Faso: Volume of available international capacity: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth (Gbit/s) (Number, Custom) Value 0.78 5.26 3.46 7.70 2/3/2016 Page 9 of 13
Guinea: Volume of available international capacity: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth (Gbit/s) (Number, Custom) Value 0.15 8.00 9.50 5.90 Date 31-Dec-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Gambia: Volume of available international capacity: International Communications (Internet, Telecoms, and Data) bandwidth (Gbit/s) (Number, Custom) Value 0.16 4.00 4.00 5.90 Date 31-Dec-2010 21-Jun-2014 21-Jun-2014 31-Mar-2016 Retail Price of Internet Services (per Mbit/s per Month, in US$) (Amount(USD), Core) Gambia: Retail Price of Internet Services (per Mbit/s per Month, in US$) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 1500.00 400.00 164.00 500.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 21-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 2/3/2016 Page 10 of 13
Guinea: Retail Price of Internet Services (per Mbit/s per Month, in US$) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 1200.00 800.00 700.00 500.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Burkina Faso: Retail Price of Internet Services (per Mbit/s per Month, in US$) (Amount(USD), Custom Breakdown) Value 2500.00 178.00 178.00 500.00 Impact on Telecom sector of World Bank Technical Assistance (composite score: 1- low impact to 5-high impact) (Number, Core) Gambia: Impact on Telecom sector of World Bank Technical Assistance (composite score: 1- low impact to 5-high impact) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.00 0.00 4.00 3.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 08-Jul-2013 19-Jun-2015 31-Mar-2016 2/3/2016 Page 11 of 13
Guinea: Impact on Telecom sector of World Bank Technical Assistance (composite score: 1- low impact to 5-high impact) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.00 2.00 3.00 3.00 Date 31-Dec-2010 17-Apr-2015 07-Jan-2016 31-Mar-2016 Burkina Faso: Impact on Telecom sector of World Bank Technical Assistance (composite score: 1- low impact to 5-high impact) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value 0.00 2.00 2.00 4.00 Overall Comments For Guinea, the new Telecom/ICT law has been approved by Parliament. The new legal environment addresses several policy issues. Therefore, the indicator on Impact (index) has been updated to 3. Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P122402 IDA-H7120 Effective XDR 14.20 14.20 0.00 4.54 9.66 32% P122402 IDA-H7130 Effective XDR 21.60 21.60 0.00 19.71 1.89 91% P122402 IDA-H7140 Effective XDR 21.00 21.00 0.00 19.22 1.78 92% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P122402 IDA-H7120 Effective 21-Jun-2011 04-Jul-2011 22-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2016 P122402 IDA-H7130 Effective 21-Jun-2011 29-Jun-2011 31-Oct-2011 31-Mar-2016 31-Mar-2016 P122402 IDA-H7140 Effective 21-Jun-2011 29-Jun-2011 19-Dec-2011 31-Mar-2016 31-Mar-2016 Cumulative Disbursements 2/3/2016 Page 12 of 13
Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 2/3/2016 Page 13 of 13