Objectives

• provide beneficiary families with health and nutritional care, education and the issuance of identification documents in order to ensure preventative maternal-child health and nutrition, schooling without dropouts and promote registration and identification processes

Conditionalities

• education: school attendance of at least 85% for children 6-14 years
• health: health center visits for inoculations, growth and development monitoring and other preventative health care for children 0-5 years, and for pre- and post natal care for pregnant and lactating women
• nutrition: participation in the "PACFO" program (food ration and attendance to training sessions) for beneficiary households with children 6 months - 3 years
• documentation: participation in the program "Mi Nombre” by all families with children lacking birth certificates and/or older than 18 without I.D. card
• housing: use of chlorine tablets

Transfer size

• US$33

Frequency of transfer

• monthly

Target population

• poorest households within rural communities having pregnant women, widowed parents, elderly members or persons having custody over children up to 14 years old

• 61,000 households by May 2006

• Total budget for 2006: US$100 million

• Committee to Fight against Poverty, Ministry of Women and Social Development, sectoral ministries