Common use of Actions under the Program Clause in Contracts

Actions under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient under the Program include the following: (a) Pursuant to Circular No. 02 SR, dated May 27, 2009, the Recipient has established a price oversight mechanism for monitoring fertilizer prices that includes random sampling of price throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information; and (b) Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient has expanded the monitoring of fertilizer quality, including random sampling for quality tests throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information and labeling in Khmer. 2. Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient is accelerating the registration of xxxxxx organizations based on an additional budget allocated for this purpose. 3. The Recipient, on April 9, 2008, lifted its ban on rice exports through Inter-Ministerial Xxxxxx No. 105. MOC/SM2008 on Authorization of Exports of all Kinds of Dry Season Rice Grown and Harvested in Geographical Areas of Prey Veng, Kandal and Takeo Provinces. 4. The Recipient signed on April 24, 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme for the provision during three (3) years of two thousand (2000) metric tons per year of rice for, inter alia, school feeding and food for work programs. 5. The Recipient executed on October 9, 2008, a financing agreement with the Asian Development Bank and initiated the implementation of emergency safety net assistance in two hundred (200) communes through a onetime rice distribution (from October 29 to November 5, 2008) and a two (2) year food and cash for work program for 2009 and 2010. 6. Pursuant to Xxxxxx Xx. 000 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient expanded the roles and responsibilities of the National Food Security Task Force to ensure and monitor the application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System in the distribution of food and agriculture materials to poor households and of cash and food for work program under the purview of said Task Force. 7. Pursuant to Xxxxxx No. 474 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient established a monitoring and public reporting mechanism on the implementation of activities under the overview of the National Food Security Task Force: (a) said monitoring mechanism and the resulting quarterly reports to cover, inter alia, distribution of fertilizer and seed to smallholders, registration of xxxxxx organizations, measures to improve rice exports, safety nets for food vulnerable households, and application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System; and (b) said quarterly reports to be publically disseminated, including through the Ministry of Economy and Finance website and through technical working groups for agriculture, water, food security and nutrition.

Actions under the Program. Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient Borrower under the Program include the following: 1. The Borrower, through the CCT Intersectoral Committee, has: (ai) Pursuant adopted procedures and mechanisms to Circular No. 02 SRallow for the verification of compliance with health and education co-responsibilities under the CCT Solidaridad Program; and (ii) established regional intersectoral committees in all regions covered by the CCT Solidaridad Program, as evidenced by a Disposición issued by the CCT Intersectoral Committee, dated May 27August 26, 2009, the Recipient has established a price oversight mechanism for monitoring fertilizer prices that includes random sampling of price throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information; and (b) Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient has expanded the monitoring of fertilizer quality, including random sampling for quality tests throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information and labeling in Khmer2011. 2. Pursuant to Directive No. 2462The Borrower has designed and mandated the establishment of an integral monitoring and evaluation system for purposes of sharing technical information amongst: (i) the CCT Solidaridad Program; (ii) the Borrower’s Ministries of Education and Health; (iii) ADESS; and (iv) SIUBEN, as evidenced by a Disposición issued jointly by the CCT Intersectoral Committee and the CCT Interagency Committee, dated May 19August 25, 2009, the Recipient is accelerating the registration of xxxxxx organizations based on an additional budget allocated for this purpose2011. 3. The RecipientBorrower, on April 9through its Ministry of Health, 2008has: (i) mandated the daily registration of primary health care services through the Clinic Management System, lifted its ban on rice exports through Inter-Ministerial Xxxxxx as evidenced by Disposición No. 105. MOC/SM2008 on Authorization 0000016, dated July 26, 2011, issued by the Borrower’s Ministry of Exports Health; and (ii) issued an action plan (Plan de Acción para Apoyar e Incentivar la Aplicación de Protocolos y Uso del Sistema de Registro de Atenciones en los Centros de Primer Nivel), for the institutional strengthening of all Kinds entities within the Borrower’s health sector, training, and the establishment of Dry Season Rice Grown performance incentives for physicians, nurses and Harvested in Geographical Areas administrative staff of Prey Veng, Kandal and Takeo Provincesprimary health care centers related to the use of the Clinic Management System. 4. The Recipient signed on April 24Borrower, 2008 through its Ministry of Education, has: (i) approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme mechanism for the provision during three transfer of financial resources to District Offices for the purchase of didactic materials, financing of non-personnel services and non-financial assets; and (3ii) years of two thousand (2000) metric tons per year of rice forvalidated student evaluation standards for secondary education, inter aliaas evidenced by Resolution No. 668-2011, school feeding dated September 7, 2011 and food for work programsResolution No. 605-2011, dated September 2, 2011. 5. The Recipient executed on October 9Borrower, 2008through its Social Cabinet, has: (i) expanded the number of institutions affiliated to the Red de Abastecimiento Social (RAS) to a financing total of 3,067 institutions as of September 30, 2011 (from a baseline of 1,988 institutions as of June 30, 2009); (ii) approved the bylaws of the RAS; and (iii) entered into an agreement with Pro-Consumidor, dated August 10, 2011 to: (A) supervise the Asian Development Bank institutions of the RAS; and initiated (B) inform beneficiaries of CCT Solidaridad Program of their rights and the implementation functioning of emergency safety net assistance in two hundred (200) communes through a onetime rice distribution (from October 29 to November 5the RAS, 2008) and a two (2) year food and cash for work program for 2009 and 2010as evidenced by Resolution No. 001-2011, dated August 25, 2011, issued by the President of the Board of ADESS. 6. Pursuant The Borrower, through its Social Cabinet, has launched a new census to Xxxxxx update the SIUBEN and improve the targeting of its social programs, including an update of the information on households and individuals, an increase of census coverage in geographic areas already covered by the last census carried out in 2004-2005, and an expansion of the census coverage to geographic areas with high poverty levels not previously included, as evidenced by Resolution Xx. 000 MEF/PRK of May 21XX-00-00, 2009dated September 13, 2011 issued by the Recipient expanded the roles and responsibilities coordinator of the National Food Security Task Force to ensure and monitor the application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System in the distribution of food and agriculture materials to poor households and of cash and food for work program under the purview of said Task ForceSocial Cabinet. 7. Pursuant The Borrower has established budget planning and coordination mechanisms that will ensure the availability of sufficient resources to Xxxxxx meet the results targets of the CCT Solidaridad Program, as evidenced by the approval of: (i) the Multi-Annual National Plan for the Public Sector 2011-2014, by the Borrower’s Council of Ministers on September 15, 2011; (ii) the Budget Law of 2011; and (iii) a Disposición dated September 1, 2011, issued by the CCT Intersectoral Committee. 8. The Borrower, through its Ministries of Finance, Economy and Public Administration, has: (i) signed a separate performance agreement with each of the following Borrower’s Ministries: Health and Education, to strengthen the institutional budget management and accountability of the Borrower’s priority programs in health and education, through performance-based budgeting, as evidenced by the performance agreements dated August 31, 2011; and (ii) approved the Presidential Decree No. 474 MEF/PRK 522-11, dated August 31, 2011, which regulates Article 14 of May 21the Borrower’s Law No. 000-00 (Xxx Xxxxxxxx de Presupuesto para el Sector Público), 2009that establishes a results-oriented management model through the use of performance agreements. 9. The Borrower, through its Ministry of Finance, has launched an online budget transparency tool (Portal del Ciudadano Dominicano), which allows free public consultations on public revenues and expenditures of the Recipient established a monitoring Borrower’s central agencies, including data on execution of the Borrower’s national budget. 10. The Borrower has defined and public reporting mechanism on mandated the implementation of activities under the overview expansion plan of the National Food Security Task Force: “community scorecards” (a) said monitoring mechanism and a social auditing scheme for the resulting quarterly reports to cover, inter alia, distribution of fertilizer and seed to smallholders, registration of xxxxxx organizations, measures to improve rice exports, safety nets for food vulnerable households, and application beneficiaries of the Identification CCT Solidaridad Program to voice their opinion on the quality of Poor Households Targeting System; and (b) the services provided under said quarterly reports to be publically disseminatedprogram), including through as evidenced by a Disposición dated August 12, 2011, issued by the Ministry of Economy and Finance website and through technical working groups for agriculture, water, food security and nutritionCCT Intersectoral Committee.

Actions under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient Borrower under the Program include the following: (a) Pursuant to Circular No. 02 SR: The Borrower, dated May 27through SEP, 2009, the Recipient has established a price oversight mechanism for monitoring fertilizer prices that includes random sampling National Upper Secondary Education System and established the institutional basis of price throughout the supply chainsaid system, as well evidenced by the State Agreements. The Borrower, through SEP, has established the set of minimum competences by subject that students need to achieve by the end of upper secondary education in the National Upper Secondary Education System, as improved xxxxxx information; and evidenced by Agreement 486, issued by SEP, and published in the Official Gazette on April 30, 2009. The Borrower, through SEP, has established a national evaluation system for the National Upper Secondary Education System, as evidenced by the coordination guidelines agreed between the Borrower’s Under-Ministry for upper secondary education and INEE dated July 24, 2009. The Borrower, through SEP, in collaboration with UPN and ANNUIES, has developed an Upper Secondary Education Teacher Training Program (bPrograma de Formación Docente de Educación Media Superior –PROFORDEMS) Pursuant which is benefiting teachers from all States, as evidenced by the execution agreement celebrated between SEP, ANUIES and CONALEP dated January 27, 2009 and a letter dated March 19, 2010 from SEP’s Coordinator of Academic Development (in SEP’s Under-Ministry for Upper Secondary Education) detailing the amount of teachers that have been certified in each State. The Borrower, through SEP, has decided to Directive establish a civil association (COPEEMS) to evaluate the entry of schools in the National Upper Secondary Education System, and has issued the guidelines for the by-laws of said civil association, as evidenced by Agreement No. 2462, 3 of the Borrower’s Executive Committee for the National Upper Secondary Education System dated May 19August 26, 2009. The Borrower, through SEP, has consolidated its scholarship programs targeting poor students who are not covered by the Recipient has expanded Oportunidades Program or by any other scholarship program of the monitoring of fertilizer quality, including random sampling for quality tests throughout the supply chainBorrower, as well as improved xxxxxx information and labeling evidenced by the Borrower’s SEP Agreement 479 published in Khmer. 2. Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient is accelerating the registration of xxxxxx organizations based Official Gazette on an additional budget allocated for this purpose. 3. The Recipient, on April 9December 31, 2008, lifted its ban on rice exports through Inter-Ministerial Xxxxxx No. 105. MOC/SM2008 on Authorization of Exports of all Kinds of Dry Season Rice Grown and Harvested in Geographical Areas of Prey Veng, Kandal and Takeo Provinces. 4. The Recipient signed on April 24, 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme for the provision during three (3) years of two thousand (2000) metric tons per year of rice for, inter alia, school feeding and food for work programs. 5. The Recipient executed on October 9, 2008, a financing agreement with the Asian Development Bank and initiated the implementation of emergency safety net assistance in two hundred (200) communes through a onetime rice distribution (from October 29 to November 5, 2008) and a two (2) year food and cash for work program for 2009 and 2010. 6. Pursuant to Xxxxxx Xx. 000 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient expanded the roles and responsibilities of the National Food Security Task Force to ensure and monitor the application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System in the distribution of food and agriculture materials to poor households and of cash and food for work program under the purview of said Task Force. 7. Pursuant to Xxxxxx No. 474 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient established a monitoring and public reporting mechanism on the implementation of activities under the overview of the National Food Security Task Force: (a) said monitoring mechanism and the resulting quarterly reports to cover, inter alia, distribution of fertilizer and seed to smallholders, registration of xxxxxx organizations, measures to improve rice exports, safety nets for food vulnerable households, and application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System; and (b) said quarterly reports to be publically disseminated, including through the Ministry of Economy and Finance website and through technical working groups for agriculture, water, food security and nutrition.

Actions under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient Borrower under the Program include the following: (a) Pursuant to Circular No. 02 SR, dated May 27, 2009, the Recipient has established a price oversight mechanism for monitoring fertilizer prices that includes random sampling of price throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information; and (b) Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient has expanded the monitoring of fertilizer quality, including random sampling for quality tests throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information and labeling in Khmer. 2. Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient is accelerating the registration of xxxxxx organizations based on an additional budget allocated for this purpose. 3. : The Recipient, on April 9, 2008, lifted its ban on rice exports through Inter-Ministerial Xxxxxx No. 105. MOC/SM2008 on Authorization of Exports of all Kinds of Dry Season Rice Grown and Harvested in Geographical Areas of Prey Veng, Kandal and Takeo Provinces. 4. The Recipient signed on April 24, 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Food Programme for the provision during three (3) years of two thousand (2000) metric tons per year of rice for, inter alia, school feeding and food for work programs. 5. The Recipient executed on October 9, 2008, a financing agreement with the Asian Development Bank and initiated the implementation of emergency safety net assistance in two hundred (200) communes through a onetime rice distribution (from October 29 to November 5, 2008) and a two (2) year food and cash for work program for 2009 and 2010. 6. Pursuant to Xxxxxx Xx. 000 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient expanded the roles and responsibilities of the National Food Security Task Force to ensure and monitor the application of the Identification of Poor Households Targeting System in the distribution of food and agriculture materials to poor households and of cash and food for work program under the purview of said Task Force. 7. Pursuant to Xxxxxx No. 474 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient established a monitoring and public reporting mechanism on the implementation of activities under the overview of the National Food Security Task ForceBorrower has: (a) said monitoring mechanism and the resulting quarterly reports to cover, inter alia, distribution of fertilizer and seed to smallholders, registration of xxxxxx organizations, measures to improve rice exports, safety nets for food vulnerable households, and application introduced temporary fiscal rule through enactment of the Identification Law on Fiscal Responsibility of Poor Households Targeting SystemNovember 26, 2010 (Official Gazette 139/10); and (b) said quarterly reports to be publically disseminated, including established the Fiscal Board through the Ministry Government Decision on the Establishment of Economy the Fiscal Policy Board of March 25, 2011. The Borrower has: (a) submitted draft amendments to the Civil Service Act to its Parliament, aiming at strengthening the appraisal system and Finance website disciplinary measures in the civil services; and (b) established the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) through technical working groups enactment of the Law on Registry of Public Employees of March 23, 2011 (Official Gazette 34/11). The Borrower has: (a) streamlined co-payment exemptions through enactment of the Amendment to the Act on Complementary Health Insurance of June 2, 2010 (Official Gazette 71/10); (b) reduced drug costs through adoption of the Ordinance on Establishing the Criteria of Wholesale Pricing and Reporting Wholesale Prices of Medicines of December 28, 2009 (Official Gazette 155/09), and the Ordinance on Establishing the Criteria for agricultureInclusion of Medicines in the Basic and Supplementary Reimbursement Lists of the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance of December 28, water2009 (Official Gazette 155/09); and (c) launched hospital network rationalization, food security through the adoption of the Revision of the Public Health Insurance Network of June 24, 2010 (Official Gazette 81/10). The Borrower has: (a) adopted the Social Welfare Strategy through the Government Conclusion on the Adoption of the Social Welfare Strategy of April 2, 2011; and nutrition(b) submitted the draft Social Welfare Act to Parliament, aiming at consolidating benefits, improved targeting of social benefits, and rationalizing the social welfare administrative network. The Borrower has: (a) reduced privileged pensions by 10% through enactment of the Law on Reducing Pensions Determined or Earned According to Special Regulations on Pensions Insurance of June 2, 2010 (Official Gazette 71/2010); (b) increased minimum service of Members of Parliament to one parliamentary term, through enactment of the Amendments to the Law on Rights of Members of the Parliament of July 18, 2009 (Official Gazette 86/09); and (c) submitted a draft amendment to the Law on Rights of Members of Parliament to its Parliament, aiming at increasing the retirement age for Government officials, Members of Parliament and Constitutional Court Judges.

Actions under the Program. Actions Taken Under the Program. The actions taken by the Recipient Borrower under the Program Program, aimed to enhance performance of social sectors to promote human capital for the poor, include the following: : The Borrower, through its Vice-President’s office (a) Pursuant to Circular acting as head of the Gabinete de Coordinación de Política Social), has issued Resolution No. 02 SR01-10, dated May 27August 2, 2009, the Recipient has established a price oversight mechanism for monitoring fertilizer prices that includes random sampling of price throughout the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information; and (b) Pursuant to Directive 2010 and Resolution No. 246202-10, dated May 19August 6, 20092010, approving: (i) the Recipient has expanded regulations governing the monitoring function of fertilizer quality, including random sampling the CCT Interagency Committee and CCT Intersectoral Committee; and (ii) the organizational development plan for quality tests throughout CCT Solidaridad Program (which includes the supply chain, as well as improved xxxxxx information updating of the organizational structure and labeling personnel roles in Khmer. 2. Pursuant to Directive No. 2462, dated May 19, 2009, the Recipient is accelerating the registration of xxxxxx organizations based on an additional budget allocated for this purpose. 3. The Recipient, on April 9, 2008, lifted its ban on rice exports through Inter-Ministerial Xxxxxx No. 105. MOC/SM2008 on Authorization of Exports of all Kinds of Dry Season Rice Grown and Harvested in Geographical Areas of Prey Veng, Kandal and Takeo Provinces. 4. The Recipient signed on April 24, 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding accordance with the World Food Programme defined processes for the provision during three (3) years of two thousand (2000) metric tons per year of rice for, inter alia, school feeding and food for work programs. 5. The Recipient executed on October 9, 2008, a financing agreement with the Asian Development Bank and initiated the implementation of emergency safety net assistance the redesigned CCT Solidaridad Program), which shall be implemented by November 2011. The Borrower, through its Vice-President’s office, in two hundred a letter dated October 1, 2010 has confirmed the approval (200through an act of agreement from the Comité Técnico Intersectorial dated September 30, 2010) communes through a onetime rice distribution (from October 29 to November 5, 2008) and a two (2) year food and cash for work program for 2009 and 2010. 6. Pursuant to Xxxxxx Xx. 000 MEF/PRK of May 21, 2009, the Recipient expanded the roles and responsibilities of the National Food Security Task Force to ensure and monitor Action Plan 2010-2011 issued by the application CCT Solidaridad Program of the Identification Gabinete de Coordinación de Política Social, stating that, by December 2010, 90 percent of Poor Households Targeting System beneficiary households receiving transfers will be registered in a Primary Care Unit and/or school or have received a letter warning of potential suspension due to incompliance; and defining the procedures and timeline (beginning in January 2011) for the systematic verification of co-responsibilities in education and health, with the objective of linking at least 80 percent of the transfers to the beneficiaries of the CCT Solidaridad Program based on the verification of co- responsibilities. The Borrower, through its Ministry of Education, has issued: (i) Resolution No. 8, dated August 20, 2010, formalizing the introduction of learning outcome tests (with reference to Mathematics and Spanish) for students in the distribution first cycle of food basic education; and agriculture materials to poor households and of cash and food for work program under the purview of said Task Force. 7. Pursuant to Xxxxxx (ii) Resolution No. 474 MEF/PRK 6, dated August 12, 2010, establishing evaluation standards to be used both in public and private schools for students in the second cycle of May 21basic education. The Borrower, 2009, the Recipient established a monitoring and public reporting mechanism on the implementation of activities under the overview through its Vice-President’s office (acting as head of the National Food Security Task Force: (a) said monitoring mechanism and the resulting quarterly reports Gabinete de Coordinación de Política Social), has issued Resolution No. 03-10, dated August 6, 2010, instructing to coveradopt, inter aliaby December 1, distribution of fertilizer and seed to smallholders, registration of xxxxxx organizations2010, measures to improve rice exportsthe level of access to information for beneficiaries of the CCT Solidaridad Program payment card, safety nets allowing said beneficiaries to be informed about: (i) the total amount of the cash transferred to them; and (ii) the available balance on their cards through the use of a toll-free telephone line. The Borrower through its Council of Ministries, has (a) approved the Multi- Annual National Plan for food vulnerable householdsthe Public Sector 2010-2013 which contains the medium-term guidelines for social protection policy with projections as to the coverage, estimated budget, and application financing bases, including the quantification of the Identification service coverage gaps in education and health linked to the CCT Solidaridad Program including: (i) initial, basic, and the first cycle of Poor Households Targeting Systemmiddle school education; (ii) primary health care and an increase in the enrollment in SENASA among beneficiaries of the CCT Solidaridad Program not covered by any social security scheme; and (iii) nutrition, including the provision of micronutrients for pregnant women and children under two years of age; and (b) submitted the draft 2011 Budget Law including these cost projections to the Borrower’s Congress, as evidenced by the letter from the Ministry of Economy to the Borrower’s Vice- President dated October 1, 2010, confirming the approval by the Council of Ministries, and submitting a copy of said Multi-Annual National Plan, as well as confirming the submission of the draft Budget Law to the Borrower’s Congress. The Borrower has made available: (a) sufficient resources to meet the output targets of the CCT Solidaridad Program that had been calculated and agreed for 2010 as reflected in Article 26 of the 2010 National Budget Law and the Nota Técnica issued jointly by the Ministry of Economy, the Gabinete de Coordinación de Política Social and the Ministry of Finance in October 2010; (b) strengthened procedures to ensure the predictability in disbursement for budget users, as evidenced by Article 26 of the 2010 National Budget Law; and (c) adequate measures to monitor and publish the use of such resources, as evidenced by the resolution issued by the CCT Intersectoral Committee and dated September 20, 2010, establishing that the results of the execution of said budget are presented to the CCT Intersectoral Committee on a quarterly reports basis and published on the web page of the CCT Solidaridad Program or of the Ministries of Public Health and Education. The Borrower, through separate official letters from its Ministries of Public Health and Education, addressed to be publically disseminated, including through the Ministry of Economy and Finance website dated August 30, 2010 and through technical working groups September 30, 2010 respectively, has agreed on the implementation of the institutional strengthening measures that are needed to ensure preparedness for agriculture, water, food security the introduction of performance agreements for the Ministry of Public Health and nutritionthe Ministry of Education.