The World Bank Project Completion Report

Contract: 7160367 September 15 2011 to May 31, 2013

Project Name

Community Based Monitoring from the Ground Up

Contract Value

$ 271,695.00

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Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 3

2. Progress ................................................................................................................................... 4

2.1. Feasibility Assessments ..................................................................................................... 4

2.2. Selection of Projects .......................................................................................................... 4

2.3. Community Mobilization ................................................................................................... 6

2.4. Development of Training Manuals .................................................................................... 8

2.5. Establishment of Provincial Monitoring Boards ................................................................ 9

2.6. Training of Governmental Officials .................................................................................... 9

2.7. CBM Toolkit ..................................................................................................................... 10

3. Operational Constraints ........................................................................................................ 13

4. Lessons Learned .................................................................................................................... 14

5. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................ 14

6. Annexes ................................................................................................................................. 15

1. Executive Summary

Integrity Watch Afghanistan entered into an agreement with the World Bank to conduct the ground up

community based monitoring of the World Bank funded NERAP Projects in the provinces of Badakhshan,

Bamyan, Herat, Panjshir and Parwan. The prime objective of this project was to develop a third party

monitoring mechanism that will empower beneficiary communities by involving them in monitoring

development projects funded by the Government/Donors, thereby promoting accountability and enhance

the quality of delivery of the projects.

Under these circumstances, Integrity Watch signed a contract with the World Bank on October 16, 2011 to

foster services for the World Bank from 15 September 2011 through September 14, 2012. Yet the contract

is extended with the No Cost Extension Status until May 31 2013 due to some operational constraints which

explicitly explained in this completion report.

As part of the terms of reference, Integrity Watch obliged to render consulting services to the World Bank as follows:

1. 75 infrastructure projects monitored over one year including a database that can be consulted by anyone and regular surveys among at least 11,000 community members;

2. Problems detected in 70% of the projects (52 projects) monitored and addressed in 30% of total projects monitored (23 projects) resulting in increased satisfaction for an additional 30% of communities concerned;

3. 75 communities aware of social auditing mechanisms and benefits, mobilized to elect local monitors and select projects to be monitored;

4. 5,400 households including 45 communities (out of 75 communities, with a success rate of 60) benefiting directly from improved infrastructure;

5. At least 68 communities (more than 90% of targeted communities) have improved access to information on infrastructure projects affecting them;

6. At least 150 local monitors elected and trained;

7. At least 50 government and elected officials trained in understanding community-based monitoring;

8. 1 interactive website is set up and made available to potential civil society organizations willing to use it and other general users to be informed and post comments.

Integrity Watch Afghanistan was able to accomplish the milestones and outputs stipulated in the contract

and have been providing progress reports to the World Bank from time to time. However, operational

constraints like first winter was an issue for IWA to access most of the project areas where some of them

were not found because of the wrong GPS coordinate, unclear ID assigned to either type projects of bridge

and road, time consuming survey conducted by EPMA and late submission of treatment lists from the

World Bank slowed the on time completion of deliverables. Not to mention that most of the projects were

not completed on time by the contracted implementing agency that affects monitoring of those projects

have continued over the life of project with the World Bank, and still some of those infrastructure projects

are not completed yet and the monitoring of ongoing projects is continued by local communities with the

support of Integrity Watch Afghanistan1.

For the community mobilization, and empowering communities to monitor infrastructure projects;

Integrity Watch provided training to 139 elected local monitors and 50 governmental and civil society

employees on community based monitoring approaches whilst an interactive website has been developed

and is available for other civil society organizations and general public to consult and use.

2. Progress

The pre-defined objectives and outputs set forth in the contract with the World Bank have been achieved2.

2.1. Feasibility Assessments

All the monitored projects were all nominated and selected by the World Bank. Integrity Watch conducted

the preliminary feasibility prior to the project monitoring began with the following consideration:

• Accessibility of the area and project: This factor was assessed through visiting the project area and

conducted several discussions with the local shuras to learn whether the area is accessible and can

be easily reached.

• Cost Effectiveness: This was assessed through alternative analysis, and looking into the costs that

shall be incurred by monitoring the project i.e. Integrity Watch will not monitor a project when it

is the only project in a distance district as it will require a team of Local Monitors, Focal Points, and

Quality control engineers.

• Security: Integrity Watch puts its staff safety and the communities who assist as priority. A quick

security assessment is conducted in the project area by reviewing the security history and

conducted several discussions with the elders, shuras and CDCs. With this assessment, Integrity

Watch dismissed the selected area in Ghorband, Parwan.

Though the project feasibility assessments were not conducted in a systematic and structured way but

Integrity Watch Afghanistan did it through visits to the area, review of information or consultations with

the provincial or district authorities.

2.2. Selection of Projects

With this consultancy, The World Bank provided a list of treatment villages to Integrity Watch that should

be monitored and another list that monitoring should not be conducted. In reality, there was a delay in

receiving this list and the selection of projects to monitor were solely based on nomination of projects by

the World Bank in the first stage and Integrity Watch confirmed it through the feasibility assessments in

the field.

1 The monitoring process in the targeted communities is ongoing only in Parwan and Badakhshan, because Integrity Watch is supported by DFID,

SIDA, TIRI and USAID in these two provinces. 2 Details is provided in Annex 2

In selecting the projects to be monitored, Integrity Watch set the project value should be $30,000 onwards.

For the World Bank projects, these were exclusive to the decision of the Bank to introduce the projects and

treatment villages to monitor. From the provided projects list and treatment villages: a total of 69 projects

were covered under the communities monitoring.

These projects were located at 17 different districts in the provinces of Herat, Parwan, Panjshir and

Badakhshan. As shown in the bar chart below, 30 community projects were covered in Badakhshan, 16 in

Panjshir, 11 in Herat, 10 in Panjshir and only 2 in Bamyan.

Integrity Watch through the regular meetings and communication with The World Bank representative has

requested the new project list so it can cover the number projects according to the contract and until this

report is submitted the total project remains to be 69 projects.

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2.3. Community Mobilization

Integrity Watch Afghanistan is not monitoring infrastructure projects independently but with its mandates

to mobilize communities, empower them, and educate them so that they can hold public institutions and

aid implementers accountable by promoting the ownership among the community beneficiaries. As this

Community-Based Monitoring of Infrastructure program will only be introduced to the community and will

be rolled-out and handed over to communities therefore the practices should be cultivated into Afghan

cultures, and each member of the community should understand that all the assistance given to the

community through a project is belong to them, and they should hold public accountable to implement

the projects with utmost honesty. With this perspective, the community were mobilized and trained by

Integrity Watch Afghanistan.

69 communities were mobilized in 17 districts within four targeted provinces. A total of 139 community

representatives were trained, in this project Integrity Watch call them as the local monitors who came

from the same communities and elected

by the Community Development

Councils. The Local Monitors were

responsible to monitor the projects on

weekly basis and responsible to report

the results of their monitoring to

communities and to Integrity Watch

Afghanistan.

The reports are gathered from the

community discussions and information

sharing.

This report will be sent to Integrity Watch Afghanistan complete with details on who were responsible to

monitor, sharing the detection of problems in a structured way i.e. problem x identified in project y, and

follow-up actions for the problems i.e. problems verification and the facilitation to address those problems

through provincial monitoring boards and regular visits to the local governmental officials.

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Figure 2. Total Number of Trained Local Monitors

Picture 1. Local Monitors Training in Badakshan

Picture 2.Provincial Monitoring Board Meeting in Parwan

Integrity Watch Afghanistan provides two major agenda in its community mobilization process:

1. Election of Local Monitors

The election of local monitors is conducted through CDC3. Once the projects information received from the

World Bank, then Integrity Watch’s Provincial Coordinator will visit the district to conduct a meeting with

the relevant CDC and introducing the objectives and the brief approach of community-based monitoring

and request them to assist the IWA’s CBM4 program. The following criterion is also introduced when the

CDC elects their representatives: they should be literate, well respected people in the community and well

known for their honesty.

Then the CDC will elect their representatives and officially introduce them as the local monitors. Once they

were introduced, they will sign a code of conduct and shall be trained by Integrity Watch on CBM program

approach and its methodology along with the basic construction material quality assurance.

2. Training of Local Monitors

Integrity Watch conducts a-three-day training for all its local monitors on social accountability mechanisms

and technical aspects of monitoring.

The major topics in these trainings are as follows:

I. Social Accountability Mechanism:

1) What are Corruption, Varieties of Corruption, Corruption’s Factors and Consequences. 2) Legal Frameworks against Corruption, Accountability, Transparency and Monitoring. 3) Definitions of Monitoring, The Difference of Monitoring and Evaluations. 4) What is Advocacy, Why Advocacy, How to advocate and to prepare agenda for advocacy. 5) Advocacy by grassroots leaders/Local Monitors. 6) Data Collection and Reporting, Field Visits, Reporting.

II. Technical Aspects of Monitoring:

1) Construction Materials. 2) Stones: Types and Stone Masonry Durability. 3) Bricks: Quality, Gradation, Test and Types. 4) Tiles: Types and Terrazzo Relevancy. 5) Cement: Types and Issues. 6) Aggregate, Concrete, Types of Concrete and its Durability. 7) Slump Test and Water Cement Ratio. 8) Concerts: Curing and Marks.

The technical trainings will assist the local monitors on how to verify quality of materials and other technical issues that may arise during monitoring.

As a part of The World Bank expectations, in this training the local monitors are also trained in social auditing mechanism to enable them to be benefited from improved infrastructures.

3 Community Development Councils 4 Community Based Monitoring

2.4. Development of Training Manuals

In order to systemize the Community-Based Monitoring approach, Integrity Watch has developed various

training materials during this project life. These manuals provide sufficient information and resources to

train the local monitors, governmental officials and civil society organization. To ensure this training

replication in other provinces where Integrity Watch Afghanistan cannot work, an Integrity Box Toolkit is

developed5 with a plan to train the government officials and civil society organization on community-based

monitoring methodology and intervention.

2.4.1. Technical Manual

The Technical Manual consist of 21 pages, and provides general information about the program structure,

how monitoring works and what principles should be used during the monitoring of infrastructure projects.

This technical manual is used to train the local monitors by proving the information in a user-friendly

language, the technical manual teaches the local monitors about specification of stones and its

prosperities, cement and its variety, laboratory testing methods of cement, ways of cement storage,

Mortar and its variety, concrete and its properties, durability and workability of concrete, sample testing

methods for quality of concrete, the way of mixing of concrete, different marks of concrete, classification

of road in Afghanistan, variety of road based on the construction material, definition for basic road

construction terminology, road layers, retaining wall, causeway or ford, culverts and its variety,

construction of culvert components. The technical training manual is developed in both Dari and Pashto

languages6.

2.4.2. Social Training Materials

During the period of this project, Integrity Watch Afghanistan also developed a detailed presentation on

Local Monitors training in social auditing mechanisms and monitoring. During the training of local monitors,

two days training focuses on social a issue, which includes subjects such as what is corruption, integrity,

transparency, auditing, promoting transparency and accountability, the role of society in holding state

institutions and project implementers accountable. Issues such as citizens’ rights and advocacy are also

included in the social training to Local Monitors. The social training materials are also developed in local

languages both Pashto and Dari, and provide intensive information to communities and local monitors to

understand community-based monitoring, and holding state institutions and project implementers to be

accountable.

5 Details on Toolkits could be found in point 2.7 in this project completion report and it is under the activity #12 on Work Plan. 6 None in English and they are available upon request.

2.5. Establishment of Provincial Monitoring Boards

Integrity Watch Afghanistan established the Provincial Monitoring Boards (PMB) in all the provinces where

The World Bank funded component of the program is implemented. The PMB is a forum of all involved

stakeholders in the construction projects that consist of members from provincial governor’s office,

provincial council, line-departments and are chaired by Head of the Economy departments and facilitated

by Integrity Watch. Roles of the PMB are to hold infrastructure project implementers accountable, help

communities to solve the detected problems in the infrastructure projects, and assess the projects quality

regularly. Provincial Monitoring Boards meet on monthly and ad-hoc basis, the meeting is arranged by

Integrity Watch where local monitors who have detected problems are also present to share the problems,

in all cases the implementers of infrastructure projects in which problems were detected were also invited

to the meeting to convince them in resolving the detected problems. Provincial Monitoring Board members

also conduct field visits to the problematic projects, and they have the authority to stop the projects until

the problems are resolved by implementing Construction Company.

2.6. Training of Governmental Officials

Government officials are the key stakeholders at provincial and district levels for the projects development,

they both have the authority and responsibility to monitor projects in the vicinities. They are considered

significantly important in supporting Integrity Watch’s community-based monitoring program. With this,

Integrity Watch Afghanistan provided social and technical trainings to 50 governmental officials mainly

from the provincial department of Rural Rehabilitation Development (RRD) and Public Work Department

and some representatives from civil societies. These trainings were given to the high ranking officials from

the at the provincial levels in the targeted provinces and have increased their understanding and it is hoped

that it shall affect the policies and their practices to hold the project implementers accountable, and

together with the communities to hold project implementers accountable.

The following table shows a total of 50 governmental officials and representatives of CSOs are trained

under the World Bank roll-out project by Integrity Watch Afghanistan.

Table 1. Governmental Officials and Representatives of CSOs Trained

S.N Province # of Gov Officials & CSO Reps Trained

1 Badakhshan 25

2 Herat 9

3 Panjshir 7

4 Parwan 9

Total 50

2.7. CBM Toolkit

The CBM Toolkit is based on Integrity Watch’s experiences in monitoring infrastructure projects in

Afghanistan that believes the experiences of monitoring in a conflict and corruption-ridden environment

has generated a flexible model for community-based monitoring. We believe the community based-

monitoring could be applied in any number of sectors and services i.e. reconstruction efforts, international

aid and development projects, the judiciary, public services, government budgeting and natural resource

extraction such as mining. Monitoring could also be conducted in conflict, transitioning and peacetime

contexts. Overall, it seeks to strengthen state-society relations and increase upward and downward

political, legal, social and professional accountabilities.

This toolkit was created to assist other civil society organizations commence the community-based

monitoring programs both inside and outside of Afghanistan. The toolkit takes the user through the whole

community-based monitoring methodology and process.

The Toolkit’s primary objective is to decentralize knowledge of CBM. Components

The toolkit is disseminated through all print, digital and internet channels. The materials produced are as

follows:

1) 220-page publication in ENGLISH & FARSI containing 7 chapters on various aspects of CBM

a. Chapter 1 – The Monitoring Process

i. The first chapter will introduce the basic concepts of monitoring, the monitoring

process, how to do a context analysis, determine the feasibility of monitoring and

to understand the legal framework for monitoring.

b. Chapter 2 – Organizational Structure

i. The second chapter will introduce the organizational structure required for a civil

society group to operate a community-based monitoring program.

c. Chapter 3 – Our Experiences (8 Case Studies)

i. The third chapter will introduce the stories of community-based monitoring from

four Afghan provinces where Integrity Watch works.

d. Chapter 4 – Legitimacy & Building Networks

i. The fourth chapter will introduce the challenges in gaining legitimacy from all of

the different actors that should conduct a successful community-based

monitoring program.

e. Chapter 5 – Knowledge is Power

i. The fifth chapter will introduce the innovative types of training materials,

including animations, comic books and technical training videos.

f. Chapter 6 – I Love Data Data Data

i. The sixth chapter will introduce some of the ways in producing monitoring data.

g. Chapter 7 – Time for Change

i. The seventh chapter will introduce the basics in advocacy campaigns.

2) 8 Technical Training Videos, e.g. Brick, Cement, Concrete

a. These will be distributed via DVDs attached to the Toolkit Book, they will also be loaded in the

USB and into the website7.

3) 7 Social Training Videos, e.g. Gender, School Monitoring, Integrity Champions

a. These will be distributed via DVDs attached to the Toolkit Book, will be loaded on the USB and

are uploaded to the website8.

4) 1 Animation on Quality Problems in School Construction9

5) 2 Comic Books

a. What does a Local Monitor do? (Nangerhar)

b. Monitoring Challenges (Badakshan)

6) A 20-page Colouring/Storybook teaching children and adults about Community Based Monitoring and

communal responsibility

7) An innovative CBM Brochure in Dari, Pashto and English

8) A Calendar for 1392 A.H. (2013-2014) illustrating the CBM process

9) Communitymonitoring.org website with all Toolkit Materials uploaded in English & Farsi

a. This website also features the CBM database

10) 300 Leather Shoulder Bags (made locally in Kabul) to hold toolkit materials. These will be distributed

during toolkit trainings in the provinces.

11) 400 USBs featuring CBM Toolkit logo to digitally hold all toolkit materials. This will be distributed

during trainings, during international and national conferences, to donors, etc.

12) 15-3G USB keys featuring IWA & CBM Toolkit logo. These will be distributed to Integrity Watch Focal

Points in the CBM program in the provinces to provide them with Internet access in rural areas.

13) 300 Waistcoats featuring IWA logo and “Community Monitoring” embroidered in Dari. These will be

distributed to Male Local Monitors who will participate in the toolkit trainings.

14) 50 Headscarves featuring IWA logo embroidered. These will be distributed to Female Local Monitors

who will participate in the toolkit trainings.

Trainings

The toolkit trainings include 1-week long trainings to 45 individuals in 6 provinces of Afghanistan.

A brief Training Agenda can be found below. This training agenda will be repeated in Balkh, Herat,

Badakshan, Parwan, Nangerhar & Bamyan. The 45 individuals from each province will be nominated by

CBM, PSM, CTM & EIM programs depending on the province.

Each training participant will also receive a toolkit leather bag with a toolkit book / DVD, USB, coloring

books and CBM brochures. Additionally, male local monitors will receive a waistcoat and female local

monitors will receive a headscarf. Any focal points attending the training will receive a 3G USB Modem in

appreciation for their facilitation of the workshop and to help aid their work in remote areas.

7 www.communitymonitoring.org 8 ditto 9 CD is available upon request and it is available at Integrity Watch Afghanistan’s website: www.iwaweb.org

Day 1

This is the first day of trainings for 15 Eligible Local Monitors in the Province. This day will cover topics,

such as Introduction to the Community-Based Monitoring Process, key concepts and benefits of CBM,

review 2 CBM case studies, watch our school animation, read 1 comic book on What do Local Monitors

Do? and watch 2-3 social training videos.

Day 2

This is the second day of trainings for 15 Eligible Local Monitors in the Province. This day will cover topics,

such as Gender & Monitoring, Building Networks for Monitoring, the Provincial Monitoring Board and an

Introduction to Technical Training issues using Technical Training videos. They will also review 2 CBM case

studies related to Gender & Elite Capture, 1 comic book on Monitoring Challenges and watch 2-3 social

training videos.

Day 3

This is the third day of trainings for 15 Eligible Local Monitors in the Province. This day will cover topics

such as How to solve problems while monitoring and how to collect monitoring data via notes, checklist

and photography. This day will also include a short FIELD VISIT to learn about collecting monitoring data

on-site and conduct simple material quality tests that they learned about on Day 2. At the end of the day,

they will learn how to present the data they collected in order to urge local authorities to improve

monitoring or address the project problems.

Day 4

This is the first day of trainings for 15 Eligible Civil Society Members in the Province. This day will cover

topics such as Introduction to the Community-Based Monitoring Process, key concepts and benefits of

CBM, review 2 CBM case studies, watch our school animation, read 1 comic book on What do Local

Monitors Do? and watch 2-3 social training videos. They will also review material from Toolkit Chapter 1 –

The Monitoring Process regarding the feasibility and legal context. Then, they will review Toolkit Chapter 2

– Organize Yourself on organizational structures necessary for organizing a CBM program.

Day 5

This is the second day of trainings for 15 Eligible Civil Society Members in the Province. This day will cover

topics from Toolkit Chapter 6 – I Love Data.Data.Data on monitoring data collection. They will also review

2 CBM case studies related to Gender & Elite Capture, 1 comic book on Monitoring Challenges and watch

3-4 social training videos. Finally, they will review Toolkit Chapter 7 – Time for Change on advocacy and

communication strategies.

Day 6

This is the first day of trainings for 15 Eligible Government Officials in the Province. This day will cover

topics such as Introduction to the Community-Based Monitoring Process, key concepts and benefits of

CBM, review 2 CBM case studies, watch our school animation, read 1 comic book on What do Local

Monitors Do? and watch 3-4 social training videos. They will also review material from Toolkit Chapter 1 –

The Monitoring Process regarding the feasibility, legal context and basic structures necessary for organizing

a CBM program.

Day 7

This is the first day of trainings for 15 Eligible Government Officials in the Province. This day will briefly

cover topics from Toolkit Chapter 6 – I Love Data.Data.Data on monitoring data collection. They will also

review 2 CBM case studies related to the Provincial Monitoring Board & Elite Capture, 1 comic book on

Monitoring Challenges and watch 3-5 social training videos. Finally, they will review Toolkit Chapter 7 –

Time for Change on advocacy and communication strategies.

3. Operational Constraints

During this projects implementation, Integrity Watch faced inevitable constraints that became challenges

in its work and its relations to the communities, government official, relevant department and to The World

Bank itself. Thus, Integrity Watch is managed to solve and finish the project according to its commitment

to The World Bank.

The major constrains are as follows:

1. During the winter season, almost all of the projects were stopped in the provinces of Herat, Parwan

and Panjshir.

2. Integrity Watch must dropped the project monitoring in Panjshir Province due to ongoing conflict in

land settlement between the contractor and the community.

3. The delay in receiving the villages control list that caused the treatment villages were not properly

selected in comparison to the treatment list.

4. Some of the provided GPS coordinates were not correct for few projects that made the Integrity Watch

could not find the projects locations easily and some of them were not found at all.

5. From the 69 projects, only 58 had the project contracts and 53 on statement of works. Integrity Watch

through its field staff and with the support of The World Bank in bridging the relations to the relevant

ministries in both central and provincial level to obtain these project contracts and statement of works,

however with the constraints in the field the complete 69 project contracts with their works

statements cannot be fulfilled. Integrity Watch suggest to The World Bank to have the preliminary

discussion and if possible to have the MoU to obtain these for the future projects.

6. In each project minimum has one problem and 42 problems from the 69 projects were addressed with

80% addressed by local monitors individually and/or with the support of Provincial Monitoring Board,

Integrity Watch and/or CDCs.

7. Technical problems in the project is somewhat considered as constraints to Integrity Watch engineers

i.e. the route road design, culverts, causeways.

4. Lessons Learned

1. On the job training is proven effectively during this project implementation. By training the local

monitors shall increase the accountability of state institutions together with the aid implementers in

the provincial and district levels.

2. Prior in conducting the mobilization, community consultation with the local authorities, shuras and

CDCs. This has improved the mobilization process by including all stakeholders whilst providing the

buy-in during the projects implementation.

3. Integrity Watch Afghanistan continues to share operational constraints with the World Bank through

regular meetings and email/telephone conversation. This proactive sharing of information with the

Bank has provided effective accomplishment in pre-defined milestones.

4. Empowering governmental officials and civil society organizations relevant to projects monitored

increases the effectiveness of achievements, and provide basis for collaborative efforts in

implementing the community-based monitoring program.

5. Integrity Watch appreciated the effort of The World bank try to mitigate access of project information

to the relevant department however this hasn’t brought the result of having all the statements of work

on the entire monitored project. Suggestion on having the MoU between The World Bank and the

Relevant Department will hopefully able to rectify this matter.

5. Conclusions

With the support from The World Bank through Integrity Watch Afghanistan during this 1-year-project life

has empowered the Afghan communities in 5 major provinces in Afghanistan through the sense ownership

to monitor the road infrastructure projects.

Though there are some constraints were faced during this project life but the impact that was introduced

through the direct visit by the Provincial Monitoring Boards to witness and to lend a hand of support to the

communities via the Local Monitors is considered as a significant achievement not only by Integrity Watch

Afghanistan but also to the Afghan people itself as they are learned and realized that all the infrastructures

were built are for them and will be utilized by them and if they do not take part from the very beginning

to monitor the quality of the construction and the accountability of the contractors then the

infrastructures-life will be short and the communities will not be benefit from them anymore.

By introducing the social accountability training to the community representatives (Local Monitors),

Integrity Watch Afghanistan not only introduce them on what the corruption is but also to provide them

the self-awareness on how to detect and prevent the corruption itself in the infrastructures projects by

enhancing the knowledge of monitoring by the community, from the community and for the community.

The exit strategy for this project to be continued without the support of Integrity Watch Afghanistan once

this World Bank project roll out is ended will be to ensure that Provincial Monitoring Boards will continue

exist with the support of the Local Monitors who will actively continue monitoring all the projects in their

localities and shall raise the solutions and suggestions by advocating their concern with their findings to

the government officials and to the donors of the project itself.

6. Annexes

Annex 1- Financial Report

The complete report will be sent once Integrity Watch’s Annual Audit is done.

Annex 2: Detailed Work

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1. Getting new list from WB New list of new 10 project received from WB

0% Such list to cover this gap was not submitted to IWA yet10.

2. Community mobilization and local monitors’ election for new enlisted communities.

75 communities are mobilized to elect their representative as local monitors. 75 communities aware of social auditing mechanisms and benefits mobilised to elect local monitor.

100% The community mobilization has already done for all projects which was introduced by WB (only the projects with security reasons or not started yet was excluded)

3. Training of local monitors, officials from MPW and MRRD, other provincial line Ministries and elected bodies

200 people trained in monitoring techniques including: 150 local monitors, 50 government officials and civil societies.

94.5% 139 LMs, and 50 government officials and civil societies were trained

4. Local monitors request for the work statement and contracts with the help of IWA staff

At least 68 communities (more than 90% of targeted communities) have improved access to information on infrastructure projects affecting them

93.3 % 58 communities have access to project contract and 53 out of 69 communities have access to the SoW. (84% of community have access to project contract

10 The World Bank is unable to provide the list of 10 projects.

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5. Actual monitoring by local monitors Note: This depends on the construction season in different regions. Monitoring will continue up to the end of a construction project and only be suspended if the construction works are suspended.

75 infrastructure projects monitored over one year and regular surveys among at least 11,000 community members

The survey has already conducted by IWA as baseline and the end-line survey will be conducted by WB independent consultant.

6. Refresher training course is conducted for local monitors (for those evaluated weak performance)

Enhanced technical capacity of local monitors

100% 29 LMs received refresh training

7. Gathering data from the field. Data is provided by local monitors to district focal points who then send them to IWA on monthly basis

1 interactive website11 90% The website has already designed and we are now we at the stage of uploading the material.

8. Monitoring results analysis

9. Identified problems are discussed in Provincial Monitoring Board

Problems detected in 70% of the projects (52 projects) monitored and addressed in 30% of total projects monitored (23 projects) resulting in increased satisfaction for an additional 30% of communities concerned.

In 69 projects the problems were detected and 42 of them were addressed (60% of detected problems were addressed)12.

11 This is integrated in the CBM Toolkits website: www.communitymonitoring.org 12 The satisfaction rate will be revealed after conducting end-line (impact survey) by independent consultant of WB.

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10. Regularly addressing problems, Advocacy and Civic Action by communities and focal points

5,400 households including 45 communities (out of 75 communities, with a success rate of 60) benefiting directly from improved infrastructure

We cannot measure this indicator at this stage. This will be evaluated during the impact assessment.

11. EPMA conducts the exit survey and write the final assessment report

Survey results and final report The schedule of this survey has not shared with IWA yet.

12. Development of integrity box and video clips

Integrity box and video clips 100% The video clips and material are ready and will be available upon request to the WB.

13. Quarterly reports to the Bank Reports 100% The Quarterly reports were submitted on regular basis to WB.