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Proposed Development Objective(s)
The development objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity of the National Statistics Institute (INSTAT) to
produce and disseminate quality statistics on population.
This Trust Fund (TF) aims to process a contribution of the European Union (EU) to support activities related to the
housing and population census in Madagascar. More specifically, this TF is meant to implement the recipientexecuted portion of the Administration Agreement signed between the Bank and the European Commission (EU) on
September 5, 2018 allowing the Bank to administer the UE contribution to the Madagascar population census. This
project is structured into two components: (a) Housing and Population census; and (b) Project Management.
The housing and population census component seeks to contribute to finance the data processing (coding, data entry,
data cleaning) and analysis activities, as well as dissemination of the results of the census. The data coding, entry and cleaning will be conducted by INSTAT at the Data Processing Center in Antananarivo. The Census and Survey
Processing System (CSPro) software will be used for data entry, cleaning and editing of the main results of the census.
The estimated timeline for the completion of these two phases is eight months for data coding and entry, and
approximately three months for the subsequent data cleaning and processing.
The objective of the project management component is to contribute to the operative costs that the existing PIU for
the IDA project will incur in managing this standalone TF. In this regard, a separate Designated Account will be opened
to manage this small grant. As with the IDA project, the PIU will (a) prepare annual work plans (AWPs) and budgets;
(b) carry out all disbursements and any financial management (FM) and procurement-related activities in accordance
with World Bank-approved procedures; (c) prepare and consolidate periodic progress reports; and (d) monitor and
evaluate project activities. The PIU will also ensure that progress is reported bi-annually to the TF Steering
Committee, and quarterly to the Project Steering Committee (PSC), the World Bank, and other authorities. |
