Brazil

Ratings for the Sergipe State Integrated Project Rural Poverty for Brazil were as follows: overall outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, the risk to development outcome... Show More + was substantial, and both the Bank and the borrower performance were moderately unsatisfactory. Some important project lessons learned were: (1) Targeting goes well beyond ensuring that project benefits reach the neediest. It is also a function of matching subprojects to communities' financial, managerial and technical capacity, and their knowledge of local conditions, in the equation supporting approval. (2) Fomenting community demand without commensurate capacity or resources to filter, evaluate, approve and finance the resulting proposals serves no useful purpose. In this case it was the outcome of poorly-designed information campaigns and well-intentioned councils without guidance on the financing likely to be available in a given year. (3) The inclusion of environmental subprojects implies a significant task in a Community-driven Development (CDD) context of information dissemination, technical assistance and awareness-building. (4) The sourcing and quality of technical assistance is as important as its financing and needs attention from the earliest stages of project development. (5) Cross sector integration/leveraging is a complex, challenging and long-term process intended to maximize the cost-effectiveness and impact of development/poverty reduction programs and policies. (6) The Project re-confirmed the longstanding lesson of CDD, that beneficiary involvement throughout the subproject cycle is essential for suitable, well-targeted and sustainable subprojects. Show Less -

The development objective of the Second Paraiba Rural Poverty Reduction Project for Brazil is to support the Government of Paraiba's efforts to reduce the incidence... Show More + of rural poverty by: (a) improving access to small-scale socioeconomic infrastructure and services; (b) raising incomes and capital assets through investments in productive activities while facilitating linkages between small producers and national and international markets; and (c) strengthening the capacity of Municipal Councils (MCs) and Community Associations (CAs) to raise funding and harmonize policies and institutional arrangements for delivery of public investments intended to benefit the rural poor. The project PDO and Implementation Progress (IP) are moderately satisfactory. To date, 400 community subprojects have been approved for financing and implementation, benefiting some 24,000 rural families. The rating for financial management is moderately satisfactory and all other fiduciary ratings (i.e., social and environmental safeguards, procurement) are rated satisfactory. The reallocation responds to the borrower's request, approved by the Guarantor's Ministry of Planning through its Commission for External Finance (COFIEX) on August 8, 2012 and received by the Bank on September 4, 2012, to absorb unallocated loan proceeds to finance community subjects and administrative costs, in attainment of the PDO. Show Less -

The Bahia State Integrated Project: Rural Poverty Project for Brazil will increase social and economic opportunities for the rural poor in Bahia by improving their access... Show More + to basic socioeconomic infrastructure, thus contributing to the Borrower's objective of increasing the Human Development Indicator (HDI). The changes will, at the borrower's request and in fulfillment of the project development objective: (i) allocate previously unallocated loan proceeds in the amount of US$ 675,000; and (ii) revise the description of category two to include goods. Show Less -