Guinea-Bissau - Guinea Bissau--Food Price Crisis Response Program : P113468 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 06

Therefore, this report will be based on mission findings of December 2011 supplemented by the observation of the mission undertaken in February 2012 during ICR mission of the parallel project funded by the European Union. [...] One Grant Agreement was with World Food Programme for the Implementation of Component 1 (TF092979) and the Second is with Government of Guinea-Bissau for implementation of components 2 and 3 and it is implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (TF092980). [...] Due to the extraordinary circumstances in the country and as a precautionary measure, the Bank will extended the Closing date beyond June 30, 2012 to give some time to the Bank to assess the situation. [...] The extension of the closing date would also allow time for the task team to complete the preparation of the Additional Financing before the parent project closes. [...] The GRFP steering committee approved the allocation of the funds on August 7, 2011, and the concept memo was approved by the CMU on November 18, 2011.