Star Report: Cabo Verde Compact II | May 2019

Policy and Institutional Reforms

Compact Component(s) Major Condition Precedent or Policy Reform Rating: Met on Time/Satisfied/Deferred/Not Met Narrative
WASH National Water and Sanitation Council (CNAS) and National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANAS) created Met on time ANAS is responsible for policy and planning of all water resources, domestic water supply, wastewater, and sanitation; and CNAS provides oversight to ensure sector policies are aligned with overall government policy direction.
WASH CNAS and ANAS operational: (1) Strategic National Master Plan and Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment; (2) National Training Plan; (3) Information, Education and Communication Plan; and (4) Social and Gender Mainstreaming Strategy approved by CNAS and implemented by ANAS Met on time  
WASH Ministry of Environment, Housing and Land Management and Autonomous Service of Water and Sanitation sign Memorandum of Understanding transitioning to independently operated/managed Multiple Municipal Utilities of Santiago. Met on time
WASH Government ensures that Multiple Municipal Utilities (“MMU”) of Santiago island has sufficient equity contributions, or other non-reimbursable funding from its shareholders, to support its operations and working capital needs, in accordance with the findings of the economic and financial viability study. Met on time
WASH Multiple Municipal Utility(s) (MMU) created as an independent, corporatized entity based on cost-of-service Met on time Prior to making the second tranche of MCC funding available under the IGF, MMU was created as an independent, corporatized entity that utilizes cost-of-service by rate class and addresses pro-poor tariffs.
WASH Government makes matching contribution to the Infrastructure Grant Facility (IGF) Met on time Prior to making the third tranche 13  of MCC funding available under the IGF, the Government made the appropriate matching contribution to the IGF as previously agreed.
WASH Water quality 14 standards updated, legally decreed and published, including those pertaining to re-use and treated water. Not met Entered into force in 2018, after the compact period ended.
WASH ANAS fully functional, as evidenced by: 1. relevant changes in legislation approved; 2. administrative rules in place; 3. internal operating regulations established; 4. 90 percent of key management staff hired in accordance with approved organizational structure transfer; and 5. ANAS executed approved work plan and budget. Met on time
WASH CNAS fully functional, as evidenced by: 1. members appointed; 2. meetings convened; 3. CNAS performing designated function of providing policy guidance and implementation oversight of ANAS activities in accordance with CNAS’s published bylaws. Met on time  
LAND Prior to the initial Disbursement of Program Funding that includes, in whole or in part, any funding for the Rights and Boundaries Activity, any new or amended laws or regulatory texts (including but not limited to, regulations, ordinances and directives) determined to be necessary under the Foundations Activity, shall have been adopted by the Parliament or the relevant Government ministry(ies) and be in full force and effect. Satisfied  
WASH Establishment of a community liaison office in AdS staffed with social inclusion and gender expertise. Deferred, then met The condition precedent required that the new multi-municipal utility, AdS, have a community liaison and social affairs unit set up by a specified stage in compact implementation. However, the formation of the utility itself was delayed, so that at that time that the condition precedent came due, the utility was in an early stage of formation and it was too early to have established this unit. AdS offered a temporary staffing solution deemed satisfactory by MCC in the short-term. Given this temporary solution, MCC deferred the condition precedent in order to allow AdS additional time to meet the condition precedent. The community liaison office was ultimately established and staffed to MCC’s satisfaction.
LAND Prior to the initial Disbursement of Program Funding that includes, in whole or in part, any funding for the Rights and Boundaries Activity, any new or amended laws or regulatory texts (including but not limited to, regulations, ordinances and directives) determined to be necessary under the Foundations Activity, shall have been adopted by the Parliament or the relevant Government ministries and be in full force and effect. Satisfied  
LAND Prior to the initial Disbursement of Program Funding that includes, in whole or in part, any funding for the Rights and Boundaries Activity, an operations manual for the Rights and Boundaries Activity fieldwork satisfactory to MCC, including environmental and social safeguards and provisions, shall have been completed and adopted by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Management through such instrument as the Parties agree is required to give full force and effect to such manual. Satisfied  
LAND Prior to disbursement of MCC Funding to implement the Rights and Boundaries Activity on additional islands, the Government shall have completed the activity on Sal island, to a degree satisfactory to MCC, and any modifications to the implementation approach for remaining islands agreed shall have been agreed among MCC, the Government and MCA-Cabo Verde II. Satisfied  

In addition to the policy-related conditions precedent listed above, the government of Cabo Verde drafted and adopted 36 different new or revised laws, regulations, procedures and standards to underpin and enable the Land Project’s implementation, particularly the Rights and Boundaries Clarification Activity.

Footnotes
  • 1. More information about MCC’s evaluation model can be found on MCC’s website:
    https://www.mcc.gov/our-impact/independent-evaluations
  • 2. Clarification of parcel rights and boundaries entailed collecting data, analyzing existing land rights, and, with new, map-based information which was not available prior to the project, clarifying physical boundaries for each plot of land.
  • 3. Civil unions between men and women comprise the vast majority of unions in in Cabo Verde. These unions, which are unregistered, often meet the legal criteria that confer property rights under local family law. Rights to property in civil unions are usually registered in the name of the man alone. The project sought to: (a) identify the female partners with rights in these land plots; and (b) safeguard those rights by including information about the union in the registration records. Information outreach and training was also conducted to increase awareness of these rights.
  • 4. More information about MCC’s evaluation model can be found on MCC’s website: https://www.mcc.gov/our-impact/independent-evaluations
  • 5. In addition to being measured against a more demanding, higher-income peer group, LMICs are evaluated on a scorecard which includes an indicator on girls’ secondary education enrollment rate (as opposed to girls’ primary enrollment rates for LICs) and an absolute threshold of 90 percent on the immunization rates indicator (as opposed to a median threshold for LICs).
  • 6. The estimated beneficiaries of the Infrastructure Grant Facility are a subset of the beneficiaries of the National Institutional Reform and Utility Reform Activities.
  • 7. Official Bulletin of the Council of Ministers, 2010. Plano de Acção Nacional para a Gestão Integrada dos Recursos Hídricos (PAGIRE). Resolution No. 66/2010; Compact Development Team, 2011. Unpublished analyses of Municipal Surveys on Gender (Santa Catarina, Praia, Paul).
  • 8. Further verification of increased availability and reliability of piped water service will be part of the independent evaluation.
  • 9. These are not mutually exclusive as there were households that received both a water and a sanitation connection.
  • 10. The full evaluation report can be found at https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/212.
  • 11. As AdS worked to integrate all nine municipalities on Santiago, it has experienced challenges related to its customer database, billing and collections, factors impacting the completion and availability of necessary data for this indicator. However, improvements are expected on this indicator as AdS resolves these challenges and better data become available. For more detail, see the Explanation of Results below.
  • 12. Unused funds from elsewhere in the compact budget were reallocated to the Land Project during the compact period.
  • 13. Originally, the IGF was designed with three tranches of funds. When the Government met the conditions to release tranches two and three at the same time, it eliminated the need for three calls for funding.
  • 14. Water quality refers to the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water, a measure of the condition of water relative to the requirements of one or more biotic species and/or to any human need or purpose. The most common standards used to assess water quality relate to health of ecosystems, safety of human contact and drinking water.