Transcript Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation and Drainage Project

Millennium Challenge Account Zambia
Lusaka Water Supply, Sanitation
and Drainage Project
(LWSSDP)
INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM
FOR PRO-POOR SERVICE DELIVERY (IGP)
Innovator and Partnership Forum
October 8, 2014
Mbulwe Mwimba – Grants Director
Sandra Giltner—IGPM Team Leader
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Outline
1. INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM (IGP)
• Goal
• Objectives
• Potential Activities
2. IGP GOVERNANCE
3. GRANT PROCESS
• Eligibility
• Grant Process
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Environment and Social Protection
• Social and Gender Awareness
• Procurement
• Financial Management and Disbursements
4. TIMELINES
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Innovation Grant Program
What is the IGP? A competitive pro-poor grant
program to engage the private sector in innovative
partnership opportunities in water supply,
sanitation, and drainage (solid waste management)
Private Sector = All non-state actors
IGP : Part of LWSSD under Institutional strengthening
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Innovation Grant Program
Definition of Innovation = dynamic processes which
focus on the creation and implementation of new or
improved products and services, processes, positions
and paradigms.
Result in improvements in efficiency, effectiveness,
quality or social outcomes and impacts.
Overall Goal: To increase and sustain access by the
poor to improved services in water supply,
sanitation, and drainage (solid waste management)
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Specific Objectives
1. To improve water use, sanitation and hygiene
2. To reduce blockage of sewer/drainage systems
3. To expand opportunities for entrepreneurship
and income generation activities related to
WATSAN and drainage
4. To ensure access for women and vulnerable
groups to project benefits
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Grant Values
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Total Grant Portfolio about: $6.25 million
• Small Grants: Minimum $30,000 to $100,000
• Large Grants: $100,001 to maximum grant size $2 million
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Focus Areas of Innovation Grants
1. Improved water supply services
2. Improved sanitation & hygiene
3. Solid waste management
Sustainability is a core element in the three focus
areas.
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Target Beneficiaries
Low income and economically vulnerable people
living in peri-urban in Lusaka. There will be a
particular focus on the program reaching
• Women and girls
• Other vulnerable groups
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Objective 1: To improve water use, sanitation, and
hygiene
Potential Activities:
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New water sources and treatment options (i.e. recycle
water, Innovative means of delivering water to periurban areas).
Innovations in water management and payment
systems.
Waste water treatment system.
Reduce cost/improve access to sanitary products.
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Objective 2: To reduce blockage of sewer and
drainage systems
Potential activities:
• Interventions in solid waste management
chain
• Organic waste processing
• IEC in solid waste disposal practices
• Improve CBE/commercial solid waste
collection/processing
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Objective 3: To expand opportunities for
entrepreneurship and income generation
activities related to WATSAN and drainage
e.g. Solid waste: manure from degenerative waste,
artefacts from plastic, biogas, etc
Objective 4: To ensure access for women and
vulnerable groups to project benefits
e.g. Target beneficiaries
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IGP
Governance
MCC
MCA-Zambia
Grants Director
Innovation Grant Program
Manager
Innovation
Grant
Program
(IGP)
Innovators
Private Sector
NGOs, CBOs,
CBEs, FBOs,
others
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IGP
Investment
Committee
Lusaka City Council
(LCC)
Lusaka Water
and Sewerage
Company (LWSC)
Other
Organizations
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IGP Governance: MCC
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Oversee and conduct due diligence on the IGP
Provide “no objection” on the grants funded
Review implementation plans
Track monitoring and evaluation indicators,
financial, etc.
• Coordinate the independent evaluation of the IGP
program and selected grants
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IGP Governance: MCA-Zambia
• Overall management of the IGPM contract
• Provide quality assurance and leadership
• Ensure transparent, competitive, and demanddriven program management
• Ensure a financial, technical, and indicator
reporting
• Make and oversee grants
• Oversee regular planning and monitoring.
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IGP Governance: Investment Committee
• Ensure that IGP & grant projects follow Compact
guidelines & IGP operations manual
• Assess and approve grant projects according to the
operations manual
• Support priority-setting and strategy review Ensure
that the budgeting & implementation follow the
operational plans
• Review the reports from the IGPM and
independent evaluator.
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IGP Governance: Implementing Entities
• Serve on the Innovation Grant Investment
Committee;
• Make available any technical staff for grant
monitoring/feasibility assessments;
• Cooperate with all requests for
information/action (i.e. development of call for
ideas); and
• Assist MCA-Zambia in coordinating with other
relevant donor-funded projects.
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IGP Governance: Innovation Grant Program
Manager (IGPM)
• Contracted by MCA-Zambia to prepare (design)
and manage the IGP
• Evaluate concept notes and grant proposals
based on established criteria and guidance
• Make recommendations for funding to MCAZambia and the Investment Committee
• Manage most aspects of grant program
implementation
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IGP Governance: Innovation Grant Program
Manager (IGPM)
Team Leader
Deputy Team
Leader
M&E Specialist
Financial
Management
Specialist
Project Director
Technical
Evaluation
Panel
Gender and
Social Specialist
Environment and
Social Specialist
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Main Grant Features
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Total Grant Portfolio: $6.25 million
• Small Grants: Minimum $30,000 to $100,000
• Intended to include smaller organizations especially
those working directly with women and vulnerable
groups
• Simpler application form and evaluation criteria
• Large Grants: $100,001 to maximum grant size $2 million
• Cost-sharing requirement: 15% of project budget. Can be in
kind.
• Co-financing possible (working with other development
partners in one project)
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Who is eligible?
• For-profit companies, non-government organizations,
community-based organizations, faith-based organizations,
universities, research institutions, and foundations
• Zambian or non-Zambian, provided that non-Zambian
organizations comply with Zambian regulations for
performing business or related activities in the country
• Small organizations seeking grants are encouraged to
affiliate with larger organizations that have the capacity to
formulate a work plan and manage grant funding
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Who is NOT eligible?
• Government agencies
• Political parties
• Public international organizations
• Individuals
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Grant Process: Major Program Steps
Preparation
2 mos
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Concept Note
2 mos
Project
Proposal
2 mos
Award & Grant
Agreement
Signing
2.5 mos
Project
Implementation
1 yr—2.6 yrs
Project
Completion
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Grant Process: Monitoring and Evaluation
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Applicants must develop a simple logical
framework and propose project indicators
Some baseline data/beneficiary estimates will
be expected
Some projects to be selected to work with
Performance Improvement Team (PIT)
Quarterly reporting against progress; monthly
financial
Field/Project visits by IGPM and MCA-Zambia
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Grant Process: Environment and Social
Protection (ESP)
• Projects must comply with Zambian
regulations and IFC Performance Standards
• Environmental screening at proposal stage
• IGP will not fund obtaining Environmental and
Social Impact Statements or Project Briefs—
must be completed as condition of grant
effectiveness
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Grant Process: Social and Gender
Assessment (SGA)
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Small grants window in order to include
innovators working directly with poor, women
and vulnerable groups
Evaluation points for data related to gender
and description of targeted beneficiaries
Disaggregated beneficiary data with
applications
Specialized field monitoring visits
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Grant Process: Procurement by Grantees
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Grantees will largely carry out their own
procurement
In certain circumstances MCA-Zambia may
facilitate procurement
Grantees must follow MCC principles of
procurement (i.e. transparency, objectivity,
equal treatment of bidders and consistency)
Procurement plan is part of project proposal
and grant agreement
Procurement exempt from VAT
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Grant Process: Financial Management and
Disbursement
Pre-Award
• Estimated budget due at concept note stage
• Detailed budget due at proposal stage
• Allowable and unallowable costs detailed in
grants manual
• Fiduciary risk assessment by IGPM during
proposal stage
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Grant Process: Financial Management and
Disbursement
Post-Award
• Dedicated bank account
• Cash book and bank reconciliations
• Quarterly disbursement in advance, incl. funds
utilization and milestone achievement
• Monthly financial reporting (may be quarterly
for large grants )
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Timeline
• 1st call for concept notes – third week of October
• Workshops after call for concept notes and
proposal invitations
• 2nd call for concept notes- June/July 2015
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Innovations Grants Program (IGP)
Phase II: Program Implementation
Estimated Timeline
Phase II : 20 Aug 2014—20 Feb 2018
2014
2015
Aug
2016
Jan
1st Call for
Concept Notes
(Oct)
Jan
2nd Call for
Concept Notes
(June)
3rd Call for
Concept Notes
(Jan)
2018
Jan
2017
Jan Feb
Grant implementation
must end by Feb 20
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4th Call for
Concept Notes
(July)
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THANK YOU
Questions?
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