First Performance and Accountability of Social Sectors Development Policy Loan

This is the first in a planned series of three Development Policy Loans (DPLs) to support the strengthening of the Performance and Accountability of Social Sectors (PASS) in the DR. The strategic vision of the PASS is to improve results in social sectors (mainly social protection, education and health), preserving in the short term, and enhancing in the medium term, the human capital of the poorest citizens. Consistent with this vision, the PASS DPLs have four inter-related objectives: (a) to enhance the performance of social sectors to promote human capital (health, nutrition, education) for the poorest citizens, through a fundamental redesign of the Government#s CCT program, Solidaridad, and its articulation with critical actions in health and education; (b) to improve budget management to support the performance of the social sector within the CCT program; (c) to support the gradual implementation of Performance Agreements in social sectors; and (d) to enhance transparency and accountability to users in social sectors by strengthening the enabling environment for a better informed demand for improved public sector performance in the social domain.