Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following:
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Borrower under the Program include the following:
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following, which have been found acceptable by the Association:
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Borrower under the Program include the following: the inter-ministerial committee, chaired by the Prime Minister and responsible for overseeing the reform of the Borrower’s power sector has been established by a decision of the Borrower’s Prime Minister dated May 21, 2007; each contract for, respectively, (i) enhancing the capacity of the Borrower’s Ministry of Energy and Water to manage the reform of the power sector, (ii) preparing the transformation of the legal status and the restructuring of EdL, and (iii) advising EdL on actions to be taken in order to improve its technical and financial performance, has been awarded; the 2001 audit of EdL accounts has been completed, and auditors to conduct audits of EdL accounts for the years 2002 to 2006 have been appointed; consultants have been employed to advise on installation of meters and awarding of distribution service contracts to the private sector; consultants have been employed to prepare a master plan for the Borrower’s electricity sector; the memorandum of understanding between the Borrower and a gas supplier to trigger the process of importing natural gas into the Borrower’s territory has been signed; an advisor to launch the implementation of a modern internal audit function within the Borrower’s Ministry of Finance has been appointed; the action plan aiming at strengthening the Borrower’s public finance management system and monitoring capacity has been made available to the public by the Borrower’s Ministry of Finance; the telecommunication regulatory authority has been established and the members of its board have been appointed; the inter-ministerial committee for social policy, has been established by a decision of the Borrower’s Prime Minister dated January 22, 2007; and technical discussions on the draft law reforming the end-of-service indemnity and introducing the new fully-funded defined-contributions pension system have been completed by a specialized parliamentary committee.
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Borrower under the Program and prior to the Original Loan Agreement include the following: The Borrower had temporarily lifted restrictions on private sector imports of rice, refrained from purchasing rice through international rice auctions, and released buffer stocks in the domestic market. The Borrower had increased subsidies and transfers to poorer households in response to the food price crisis and had increased spending, over and beyond that originally allocated in its 2008 budget, to the rice subsidy program, nutrition and feeding programs and other social protection programs aimed at assisting poorer households. The Cabinet Secretaries of the Borrower’s Department of Health, Department of Education, Department Social Welfare and Development, Department of the Interior and Local Government, and Department of Agriculture had approved Operational Guidelines for the Food for School Program for School Year 2008-2009. The Borrower had adopted its Administrative Order Number 232-A of July 28, 2008 establishing a National Social Welfare Program and assigning coordination responsibilities under such program to its Department of Social Welfare and Development. The Borrower had adopted the proxy means test based national household targeting system known as the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction for the targeting of DSWD social protection programs and services. The Borrower had established a database of over 200,000 poor households covering 83 municipalities. The Borrower had included in its budget proposal to its Congress for Fiscal Year 2009 adequate funding for expanding the database to cover at least its twenty poorest provinces in Fiscal Year 2009. The Borrower had adopted and launched a conditional cash transfer program using the proxy means test based national household targeting system known as the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction. The Borrower had included in its budget proposal to its Congress for Fiscal Year 2009 adequate funding for scaling up and sustaining the conditional cash transfer program to a total of 320,000 households.
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Member Country under the Program include the following:
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken under the Program are set forth in the Schedule to the Program Agreement.
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following: To improve the investment climate and promote exports
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following: Private Sector Development • Issuance of a decree by the President of the Recipient doubling the road user charge transferred to the FERA from the initial levels of CFA F 35.45, CFA F 31.95, and CFA F 15.95 per liter respectively for diesel, premium gasoline, and regular gasoline. Human Development • Satisfactory progress made in strengthening human resource management in the education sector, as evidenced by the adoption by the HR department of the Ministry of the Recipient in charge of primary education of an identification system using an identification number for all contractual teachers consistent with civil service identifications and the effective integration of the Volunteers Project Unit into the HR directorate of the Ministry of Education. • Satisfactory progress made in the implementation of the Recipient’s hospital policy, as evidenced by the preparation and signing by the Ministry of the Recipient in charge of health of performance contracts with at least five Public Hospitals consistent with the decrees fixing the financial regime and describing the financing arrangements and oversight of the Public Hospitals. • Adoption and initiation of implementation of a medium-term plan for sustainable financing of the Nutrition Reinforcement Program. Mitigating Vulnerabilities • Establishment by the Ministry of the Recipient in charge of fisheries of an industrial fishing vessel registry and artisanal vessel matriculation database accessible to the public on-line. Public Governance • Improvement of budget reporting to the public by presenting and publishing the 2011 budget envelopes for the sectors of education, health, justice and decentralization using the spatial code at, at least, the departmental level as evidenced by detailed SIGFIP reports. • Adoption of a new law governing land ownership that modernizes and clarifies the overall legal framework for land ownership. • Adoption by the Council of Ministers of the Recipient of amendments to the Statistics Law that mandate a more open access by users to anonymised primary data.
Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following: Public Financial Management and Public Administration Budget Planning and Execution
