Uganda - Covid-19 Crisis Response Budget Support Program (CRSP)

Project Summary

Approval Date	24 Jul 2020
Signature Date	10 Jun 2021
Planned Completion Date	31 Jan 2022
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Multi-Sector
DAC Sector Code	11330
Environmental Category	3
Commitment	U.A 23,000,000
Status	Implementation

Project General Description

The COVID-19 Crisis Response Support Program (CRSP) to Uganda is designed as budget support within the framework of the Bank Group’s COVID-19 Crisis Response Facility. Uganda confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 21 March 2020. This number had increased to 1,075 confirmed cases on July 22. The country’s overburdened health system does not have adequate resources to face this health emergency. Uganda is currently facing an additional challenge of a deadly invasion of desert locusts, which is posing a threat to food security and exacerbating the country’s vulnerability during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Ugandan economy hard, both directly and indirectly, through global, regional and domestic transmission channels, with the hospitality, tourism, trading and manufacturing industries particularly badly affected. The Government has responded to the crisis with a broad financial package aimed at tackling the COVID-19 health emergency and supporting economic activity. It allocated resources to the health sector, expand social safety net programs, and provide targeted support to the impacted economic sectors. The program, which results from a request of the Government dated April 9th, 2020, was appraised on 15-30 April 2020, and will be applied for a period of one year (2020/2021). Bank support, estimated at UA 23 million, will provide financing to the budget for targeted spending, aimed at containing and mitigating the health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project Objectives

The goal of the proposed operation is to support Uganda’s National COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan to strengthen the COVID-19 outbreak response mechanisms and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the pandemic. The proposed operation seeks to achieve three short-term and medium-term outcomes: (i) enhanced capacity to test and treat COVID-19 patients to reduce risk of infection and morbidity; (ii) ease impact of the lockdown, and other COVID-19 related measures, on the poorest; and (iii) mitigate risk to medium-term macroeconomic stabilization and economic resilience.

Beneficiaries

The program will benefit the poor and vulnerable through rapid diagnosis, isolation and management of infected persons, strengthened livelihoods and expanded social protection coverage which includes vulnerable households and the urban poor. The program will also benefit households, private sector, financial sector actors through a faster and more inclusive economic recovery on the back of a more resilient businesses and workforce.

Participating Organization

Funding

African Development Fund

Implementing

MINISTRY OF FINANCE, PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-UG-K00-009
Last Update	01 Dec 2021

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Geographic Location

Country	Uganda

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Loan Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	General Budget Support

Commitments

U.A 23,000,000

African Development Fund

U.A 23,000,000

Disbursements

Document Type	Language	Document
Appraisal report	fr	viewer
Appraisal report	en	viewer

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value
Acute healthcare facilities with capacity for intensive care and isolation based on equipped and operational intensive care units (ICU)	Number	2020	100
National laboratory capacity to screen/test for COVID-19 per day	Number	2020	6000
Proportion of poor and vulnerable families that have consumed ongoing food and nutritional support	%	2020	75
Proportion of poor and vulnerable families that have consumed ongoing food and nutritional support - female headed	%	2020	23,25
Percentage of Local businesses that access finance (percentage change from year to year)	%	2020	12
Percentage of Local businesses that access finance (percentage change from year to year) - women owned	%	2020	3,5999999999999996
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) score on transparency, accountability and corruption in public sector	Scale (1=low to 6=high)	2020	3,6
Emergency response plan prepared with agreement for regular updating	None	2020	Yes
Issuance of national plan for personal protection equipment (PPE) supplies (stockpiling, distribution, logistics)	None	2020	Yes
Number of border points equipped to screen, test and isolate travellers and truck drivers and travellers for COVID-19	Number	2020	6
Approved promotional campaigns program on handwashing and hygiene executed in schools and areas of mass congregation	None	2020	Yes
Approved investment plan for sustainable safe water facilities implemented for selected health facilities and areas of mass congregation	None	2020	Yes
Approved Plan to expand coverage of social assistance to vulnerable populations	None	2020	Yes
Budgetary allocation for social sector (education, health, social protection)	Uganda Shillings billion	2020	6770
Cabinet Directive to allow corporations including small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to delay payment of corporation tax or presumptive tax for taxes	None	2020	Directive adopted - Payment of corporation tax or presumptive tax for taxes due between April and June 2020 and, for tourism, manufacturing, horticulture and floriculture deferred until September 2020
Cabinet Directive to expedite repayment of domestic government arrears to the private sector suppliers	None	2020	Yes
Cabinet Directive to grant extension on filling tax returns of corporate income tax return; VAT tax, and local excise duty	None	2020	Yes
Policy to facilitate local production of COVID-19 essential supplies and protective personal equipment by small and medium enterprises (SMEs)	None	2020	Yes
Cabinet Directive to provide additional fund to boost agricultural production and productivity for seedlings, fertilizers, irrigation, storage facilities and value addition	None	2020	Yes
Cabinet Directive to provide support to water and electricity utilities in order to ensure continued supply of these essential services to consumers during the period April to June 2020	None	2020	Yes
Production of independent audit(s) covering COVID19 related expenditure	None	2020	Yes
Publication of procurement contracts for goods and services	None	2020	Yes
Publication of special procurement audit	None	2020	Yes