Day 2 - Session 5b Timor-Leste

7/30/2019 Day 2 - Session 5b Timor-Leste

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Democratic Republic of Timor-LesteMinistry of Social Solidarity

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)

BOLSA ME Program

by

Antnia Carmen da Cruz&

Rogrio Nelson Alves


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Program Evolution

A. Name of the Program:BOLSA ME

B. Total Budget and Total Target Population:

Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Budget $409,200 $525,400 $824,966 $844,720 $1,898,400 $5,130,000

Beneficiary

Families (unithousehold)

6,504 7,885 12,728 11,800 13,814 Target of over

33,000

Budget $105,600 $156,000 $132,000 $385,680 $238,080 -

Student

beneficiaries at

national

universities

440 650 550 1,607 992

Last Payment

Program now

excludes

university

students

Budget $ 38,160 $67,760 $64,800 $180,360 $77,040 -

Student

beneficiaries at

universities in

Indonesia

106 188 180 501 214

Last Payment

Program now

excludes

university

students

OperationalBudget

$68,750 $80,375 $94,760 $100,000 $150,000 $270,000


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Distribution of Families beneficiaries in 2013

Total families Registered : 32.025


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General Objectivesand Target Groups

Breaking the

intergenerational poverty cycle throughensuring the opportunity for access to education andhealth for children of vulnerable families


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Specific Objectivesand Target Population:

Education:

Access to the years of compulsory education for children aged 6 to 14years old

Access to secondary education for children aged 15 to 17 years Reducing the number of children who drop out of school

Health:

Improving access to health care /immunization for children aged of 0-5years old


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Specific Objectives (continued)

Poverty:

Improved household income through participation in the program

Gender Equality:

Empowerment of women

Promotion of gender equality regarding childrens access to education

Contributing to access for children aged 0-5 years to registration and toobtaining a national identity/birth certificate


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Implementing InstitutionMinistry of Social Solidarity (MSS) with co-responsibility of:

Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health for

monitoring and ensuring an adequate supply of schools and

basic health services;

Ministry of Finance & National Bank of Commerce of Timor-

Leste for payments to beneficiaries;

Ministry of State Administration for attesting national identity

and dissemination of Bolsa Me program to the communities

trough local authorities.


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Institutions and GovernanceThe National Directorate of Social Reinsertion within the Ministry ofSocial and Solidarity is the implementer of the program through:

A central team at National level - Program planning and budgeting; production ofregistration forms; Data base and data analysis, monitoring and evaluation.

13 focal points at District level - act as liaison officers between the central team,

social animators, child protection officers and local authorities; data entry of alldate collected trough the registration forms.

65 Social Animators at Sub-District level Dissemination of the Program; Datacollection and registration of beneficiaries and organize beneficiaries for payment;

13 child protection officers are responsible for information dissemination andreferral of cases.


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Targeting Beneficiaries

Single parents families who are living under poverty linewith the following conditions:

without income or with a very low income;

with children aged 0-17 years old; with physically or mentally disabled children and

Families with children aged 0-5 years who have not beenimmunized.


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Selection: Targeting Mechanism

The selection criteria and how they are weighted are as follows:

Household income 25%

of children aged 0-17 years 25%

Head of household in the family 25%

of children aged 0-17 with disability 25%


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RegistrationCalendar

1. September to October - Registration of Beneficiaries;

2. January of following year - Data Entry from November to December and continue to;

3. February - Data base analysis;

4. March to April :

- Announcement and publication of the list of eligible families andexcluded families;

- service complaints from beneficiaries / families excluded / from the

communities

6. May to July - Payment process (slide3)

Documents needed for registration: A copy of a national identity card;

A copy of the birth certificates of the children; A residency statement from the community leader;

Documentation of school enrolment of all the children

A document on the economic situation of household.


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Process of Collecting Beneficiaries Data


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Payment Mechanism,and Monitoring & Evaluation

Cash Payment of Beneficiaries still in 7 districts by the Ministry of Finance;- Operational cost to the team of payment

Bank account Payment by National Commerce Bank Timor-Leste:

- started Pilot Payment in Dili (Capital) district on 2012;

- expand Payment to more 5 districts 2013 and- Each transfer costs $0.50 cents

The monitoring and evaluation is done when the registration andpayments are taking place.

Evaluation of the impact of the program will be commenced in June-July2013.


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Financing and Fiscal Sustainability An estimated 41% of the population is living under the poverty line

(UNDP, 2011).

Average non-oil GDP per capita income increased from $398 in 2007 to

$599 in 2009 (UNDP, 2011).

Compulsory education is free of charge.

Public Health is free of charge.

Re-registration and evaluation of eligibility is done every two years; a

family can stay in the program for more than two years.

The transfers are $60 per year for a family with one child, $120 per year

for a family with two children, and $180 per year for a family with three

or more children.


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Financing and Fiscal Sustainability (continued)

Year 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Ministry ofHealth

$32,893- $35,692- $38,198- $48,323- $61,508

Ministry ofEducation

$70,407- $67,486- $70,139- $94,773- $91,827-

Ministry ofSocialSolidarity

$74,523- $69,597- $118,728- $127,986- $147,663-


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Gender Dimensions of CCTsSpecific gender equality outcomes of the Bolsa

Me program are as follows:

Empowerment of women headed households - 94% of the 13,814single-parent family beneficiaries in 2012

Reduced vulnerability of women and girls; women have access to

cash (MDGF Case Study, 2012) Reduced womens dependency (MDGF Case Study, 2012)

Increased chance of girls gaining access to schools (MDGF CaseStudy, 2012)

Reduced chance of domestic violence due to financial difficulties(MDGF Case Study, 2012)


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Issues and Challenges

Geographic and infrastructure barriers;

Program expansion and program focus;

Security issues;

Enhancement of inter-ministerial collaboration;

Development of human resources capacity;

Lack of some resources to support the implementation of the

program and

A study of the impact of the program on beneficiaryhousehold income is needed.


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Contact InformationMinistry of Social Solidarity

Republic Democratic of Timor-Leste

Contact:Name: Antnia Carmen da Cruz

Position: Director of National Directorate for Social ReinsertionTelephone Number:

Landline: +670 3331121

Mobile: +670 77274156

E-mail: [email protected]