Kenya - Youth Empowerment Project

 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATASHEET RESTRUCTURING STAGE I. Basic Information Date prepared/updated: 11/15/2012 Report No.: AC6830 1. Basic Project Data Country: Kenya Project ID: P111546 Project Name: Kenya Youth Empowerment Project Task Team Leader: William David Wiseman Estimated Appraisal Date: January 19, Estimated Board Date: May 4, 2010 2010 Managing Unit: AFTSE Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Sector: Other social services (84%);Vocational training (13%);Public administration- Other social services (3%) Theme: Social safety nets (44%);Other social protection and risk management (50%);Education for the knowledge economy (6%) IBRD Amount (US$m.): 0 IDA Amount (US$m.): 17.03 GEF Amount (US$m.): 0 PCF Amount (US$m.): 0 Other financing amounts by source: BORROWER/RECIPIENT 0.00 Financing Gap 0.00 0.00 Environmental Category: C - Not Required Simplified Processing Simple [] Repeater [] Is this project processed under OP 8.50 (Emergency Recovery) Yes [ ] No [X] or OP 8.00 (Rapid Response to Crises and Emergencies) 2. Project Objectives The proposed Project Development Objective (PDO) is revised to support Government of Kenya (GoK) efforts to improve youth employability. 3. Project Description The project originally had three components: 1. Labor-intensive works and social services; 2. Private Sector Internships and Training Program; and 3. Capacity Building and Policy Development The main objective of Component 1 was to support the GoK in reducing the vulnerability of unemployed young women and men by expanding and enhancing the effectiveness of the Kazi Kwa Vijana (KKV) program. The component financed labor- intensive projects that provided income opportunities to participating youth, and at the same time, enhanced the communities' access to social and economic infrastructure. The target group of the component was unemployed youth in the 18-35 age bracket, which is the same bracket of the ongoing KKV. The project is being restructured so that Component 1 of the Project is cancelled and the scopes of Components 2 and 3 are slightly modified. In addition, introduce a provision for retroactive financing to allow for payment of "Operating Costs" incurred in the amount of $650,000 on after January 1, 2012 , The restructuring proposes to untrigger OP 4.10 and to downgrade the environmental Category from B to C as a result of dropping Component One which comprised the funding of small scale civil works with environmental and social impacts, including the presence of Indigenous Peoples in some of the rural areas where the civil works were proposed to take place. The remaining two components do not involve such civil works and will have activities that are in urban areas. The restructured project will be financed using a Specific Investment Loan (SIL), for a total credit amount of US$ 17.03 million over an implementation period of four years. The PDO is proposed to be achieved through remaining two components, namely: (i) Private Sector Internships and Training Program; and (ii) Capacity Building and Policy Development Component : Private Sector Internships and Training - The main objective of the second component is to improve youth employability, by providing youth with work experience and skills through the creation of internships and relevant training in the formal and informal sector (with priority given to growing sectors). This component is a pilot that addresses the lack of skills and work experience for disadvantaged young women and men. It will provide youth in the 15-29 age bracket who have at least eight years of schooling, have been out of school for at least a year and are not working with an opportunity to acquire relevant work experience and skills through a private sector internship and training program. The component will start implementation in Nairobi and Mombasa, and will expand to one more rural area in Year 2 of the Project. It will support three activities: (i) creation of internships in the private sector; (ii) provision of training relevant to the work experience; and (iii) monitor and evaluate to capture lessons from the pilot. Component: Capacity Building and Policy Development. The main objective of this component is to enhance the capacity of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MoYAS) to implement the national youth policy and increase the institutional capacity for youth policy planning. This will be done through activities under the following main areas: (i) training of youth officers; (ii) communication activities to increase awareness of the Project; and (iii) policy development, through the provision of technical assistance to the National Youth Council and youth policy development. 4. Project Location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis The proposed Project will cover urban areas. 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists Ms Gibwa A. Kajubi (AFTCS) Ms Noreen Beg (AFTN1) 6. Safeguard Policies Triggered Yes No Environmental Assessment (OP/BP 4.01) X Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) X Forests (OP/BP 4.36) X Pest Management (OP 4.09) X Physical Cultural Resources (OP/BP 4.11) X Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10) X Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) X Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) X Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP 7.50) X Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP 7.60) X II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: With the cancellation of Component One no adverse social and environmental impacts are anticipated. An Environmental and Social Safeguards Completion Brief for Component One has been prepared and placed in project files. It details the actions and safeguards instruments that were prepared and disclosed by the Government as well as the related activities that had been undertaken. The report confirms that the application of environmental and social safeguards under Component One was satisfactory through the closing of Component One. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: N/A 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. N/A 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. N/A 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. N/A B. Disclosure Requirements Date Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other: Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal? Date of receipt by the Bank Date of "in-country" disclosure Date of submission to InfoShop For category A projects, date of distributing the Executive Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors Resettlement Action Plan/Framework/Policy Process: Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal? Date of receipt by the Bank Date of "in-country" disclosure Date of submission to InfoShop Indigenous Peoples Plan/Planning Framework: Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal? Date of receipt by the Bank Date of "in-country" disclosure Date of submission to InfoShop Pest Management Plan: Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal? Date of receipt by the Bank Date of "in-country" disclosure Date of submission to InfoShop * If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Physical Cultural Resources, the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental Assessment/Audit/or EMP. If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why: The project does not trigger the Pest Management and/Cultural Property. Therefore, in- country disclosure of any of the above-mentioned documents is not expected. C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level (to be filled in when the ISDS is finalized by the project decision meeting) The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the World Bank's No Infoshop? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public place in a No form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected  groups and local NGOs? All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included in the project cost? Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? D. Approvals Signed and submitted by: Name Date Task Team Leader: Mr William David Wiseman 03/29/2012 Environmental Specialist: Ms Noreen Beg 03/29/2012 Social Development Specialist Ms Gibwa A. Kajubi 03/29/2012 Additional Environmental and/or Social Development Specialist(s): Approved by: Regional Safeguards Coordinator: Ms Alexandra C. Bezeredi 03/29/2012 Comments: Sector Manager: Ms Lynne D. Sherburne-Benz 03/29/2012 Comments: