1. Promote the protection and integration into society of minors living under extremely difficult circumstances in Central America and Panama. 2. Mobilize the aid of the public and private sectors to restore the traditional role of the family and the community, and to modernize institutions trying to improve living conditions for minors.

1. Improve living conditions for minors in especially difficult circumstances and at high risk in Rio de Janeiro. 2. Strengthen and create support systems that provide satisfactory results in the city and in other regions of Brazil. 3. Identify and test various methodologies for programs assisting minors.

1. Develop integrated assistance programs for children involved in survival activities in urban neighborhoods and settlements in the outskirts of fifteen Peruvian cities. 2. Increase the number of daycare services for pre-schoolers, supporting the creation of a national daycare system (Wawa Wasi), thus combining public services with the potential of women’s groups and community associations.

1. Improve living conditions for minors in especially difficult circumstances in six Brazilian cities. 2. Finance direct assistance projects for minors at high risk or who are a high risk to society.

1. Improve sanitary and living conditions for residents of the low valleys of the municipality of Sao Paulo. 2. Install basic services (such as schools, health stands, child daycare centers and kindergartens) in marginal neighborhoods.

1. Increase access for the most disadvantaged children and improve their levels of primary education. 2. Contribute to better rearing of children in their first years of life through informal initial education programs for poorly educated or illiterate parents. 3. Provide access to community education for the growing number of isolated communities unable to maintain a formal school.

1. Contribute to the development of human capital in order to achieve more equitable economic growth. 2. Improve the lives of children in especially difficult circumstances in ten cities, giving them a chance to develop their physical, psychological, social and economic potential.

1. Assist the government in its mission to implement projects to help improve economic and social conditions for the poor population. 2. Stimulate school registration and the attendance of children in first, second and third grades.

1. Promote the development of human capital in Bolivia for more equitable economic and social progress. 2. Make it possible for child workers between 7 and 12 years of age to enter and/or remain in the formal public primary education system. 3. Strengthen family ties, encouraging greater family involvement in the child’s education..

1. Help children and adolescents, from infancy to the age of 17, to grow and develop as members of the family, school and community. 2. Invest in primary health care and family planning, primary education, early childhood development and social assistance.

1. Pilot program aimed at improving the welfare of children under the age of six who live in poverty in rural and marginal urban communities. 2. Develop an integrated system for attending to children who live in poverty, including early stimulation, health, nutrition and daycare services.

1. Contribute to the growth and development of close to 70,000 poor children under six years of age in marginal urban and/or rural areas, aimed at maximizing their potential. 2. Provide services to improve the physical, psychological, cognitive and emotional conditions of the target group, supporting the organization and participation of families, communities, public institutions and society.

1. Make the educational system more equitable, providing greater accessibility and improving quality and internal efficiency in pre-school and in the third cycle of secondary education (lower secondary). 2. Expand pre-school education in low-income urban and rural communities.

1. Finance a program focused on adolescent mothers, with particular attention to prenatal and post-natal care. 2. Develop the first program in Guatemala providing assistance in the individual detoxification of adolescent girls who are pregnant or who have recently had a baby.

1. Improve the quality of education at the pre-school and primary levels. 2. Reduce the repeating rate in primary school, especially in first grade. 3. Make quality pre-school education available to all children five and six years old.

1. Create and develop an inter-institutional network of services involving the public sector and social organizations, aimed at taking preventative action and providing assistance for the increasing social integration and adaptability of children and adolescents at risk. 2. Improve the quality of services and policies aimed at children and adolescents at risk.

1. Enhance the employability of urban youth. 2. Provide vocational and basic job skills training for young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21

1. Provide vocational as well as life skills training for Brazil’s marginalized urban youth between the ages of 14 and 21. 2. Refine the poverty targeting mechanisms in order to ensure the participation of the neediest youth.

1. Extend access to primary education in rural areas through remote education and new technologies. 2. Improve the performance of first-to-third-grade children in mathematics and the Spanish language, using interactive radio.

1. Improve and maintain access to primary education establishments in disadvantaged areas. 2. Improve the quality of primary education and develop planning, management and development capabilities at the regional, district and school levels.

1. Improve the quality of services and reform the health sector. 2. Increase protection of social groups at high social and epidemiological risk (poor people, women and children) through financing health education, basic access and nutrition programs.

1. Prevent physical interpersonal violence and reduce the perception of danger. 2. Focus particularly on youth-oriented community organizations in order for youths to make a positive contribution to public safety

1. Ensure that public spending on federal programs to deliver basic social services targeted to low-income groups remains at adequate levels while improving efficiency; 2. Support the government in carrying out and deepening the reform under ways in the education, health, labor and social welfare sectors; 3. Provide fast-disbursing funds to support the measures taken by the government during the macroeconomic stabilization process

1. Strengthen education management and school autonomy; 2. Introduce mechanisms to assure efficiency and social equity in resource allocation; 3. Ensure that students in participating schools are offered the full cycle of basic education; 4. Assure access to transparent information and performance evaluations; 5. Promote citizen participation.

1. Increase employment opportunities for the low-income population; 2. Facilitate opportunities for access to the labor market through work training, counseling and modernization of the Dominican Republic's regulatory framework for labor; 3. Increase the employability of the beneficiaries, adapting the training to the labor demands of employers; 4. Assess the effectiveness of different job and training programs; 5. Establish an ongoing dialogue on policies to modernize the labor market.

1. Improve the delivery of education services and expand capacity to respond to demand for such services; 2. Strengthening institutional capacity to deliver education services and Improving the coverage and quality of education; 3. Make preschool and primary education (grades 1 to 9) accessible to everyone in Guatemala.

1. Maximize the positive impact of investments to improve conditions among poor communities in Panama and encourage them to participate in their own development; 2. Introduce a transparent resource allocation process, based on poverty criteria; 3. Develop a community planning methodology for resources to be used in accordance with community priorities; 4. Broaden the menu of activities eligible for funding in order to reflect communities’ concerns and interests; 5. Decentralize the Emergency Social Fund line process to bring it more into step with local realities.

1. Improve the quality of life of low-income groups living in marginal areas in the city; 2. Upgrade favelas and informal subdivisions in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, combining investments with social development activities.

1. Mitigate the effects of the economic crisis on the very poor; 2. Institutionalize mechanisms to support and encourage investment in human capital with subprograms for youth worker training and family; 3. Provide a more effective social safety net for vulnerable sectors of the Colombian population.

1. Improve access to and increase the quality of secondary education; 2. Reorganize supply and optimize infrastructure; 3. Promote efficiency in school management; 4. Review secondary curricula for appropriate distribution and hourly course load; 5. Ensure the availability of educational inputs; 6. Modernize human resource training policies in the sector; 7. Reduce the risk of academic failure among youth.

1. Update the socioeconomic profile of the poorest families that require government aid; 2. Provide institutions that carry out social programs with indispensable information for programming their actions; 3. Make it possible to perform a multidimensional analysis of poverty that supplements the income factor with considerations of human capital, access to basic services and family structure; 4. Facilitate interagency coordination to improve the impact of social spending by eliminating duplication and facilitating control of the entities that carry out social programs.

1. Contribute to the improved performance, efficiency, and equity of the primary education system; 2. Improve performance through the effective implementation of the revised primary-school curriculum and national assessment standards in all primary schools; 3. Increase efficiency through the rationalization of teacher education and the strengthening of educational management capacity at all levels; 4. Enhance equity in the delivery of educational services to children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, which are at the margin of both equity and achievement;

1. Enhance the well-being of Nicaraguans living in extreme poverty by helping to build human capital; 2. Establishment of the initial operating framework for a social safety net; 3. Income supplementation (for up to three years) to allow families living in extreme poverty to increase their food expenditures; 4. Better care for children under five years of age; 5. Reduction of the school dropout rate in the first four grades in the program area.

1. Create the institutional framework lacking in Nicaragua in order to be able to address efficiently and sustainable the needs of vulnerable groups; 2. Transform MIFAM into a body having the capacity to formulate policy, hire services, coordinate entities in different sectors that serve the needs of vulnerable groups, and regulate services for these groups.

1. Fight poverty by providing funding for basic social infrastructure through delegation and participation that improves access by the poor; 2. Strengthen community and local government capacity for implementing and maintaining basic social infrastructure; 3. Help the Emergency Social Investment Found (FISE) to become more efficient and more effective in delegating its project cycle and in defining its role in implementing the enhanced poverty reduction strategy (EPRS).

1. Improve the quality and equity of basic education in Paraguay, thereby helping to reduce poverty and contribute to the country’s social and economic development; 2. Improve teaching practices and administrative processes in Cycle I and II schools; 3. Lessen inequality within the education system; 4. Facilitate access to Cycle III of the educación escolar básica [basic education] program (EEB); 5. Promote parent involvement in school affairs through Asociaciones de Cooperación Escolar [Educational Cooperation Associations] (ACEs); 6. Improve teacher quality and initial training; 7. Strengthen Ministry of Education and Culture administration;

1. Support the work of agencies in the Child and Adolescent Protection System; 2. Finance 230 projects at the national level in areas such as drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, child abuse and work exploitation.

1. Broaden and improve comprehensive care to children under six years of age from low-income families; 2. Provide initial and preschool education, provision of food supplements and preventive health services; 3. Instruct pregnant women on the opportunities for assistance in the health care system, and parents will be provided instruction and advice on proper child-rearing practices, nutrition, family hygiene, violence prevention and reproductive health; 4. Strengthen institutions responsible for childcare.

1. Identify best practices in the area of children´s rights and disseminate the availability of services of the Commission; 2. Promote children’s rights among parents, child protection agencies, teachers, judges, and national and local public institutions; 3. Support the participation of non-government and civil society organizations in the design, preparation and execution of state policy.

The general objective of the program is to improve living conditions and social integration of at-risk children and adolescents and their family group. The program’s target population will consist of at-risk children and adolescents under 18 years of age, along with their family group.

The goal of BEAMS is to contribute to sustainable socio-economic development and equitable poverty reduction in Guyana. Program objectives include: (i) sustained, improved literacy and numeracy attainment through the primary cycle; and (ii) expanded secondary access in underserved areas and poverty zones.

Comprehensive community education program overall program objective is to improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of education services offered by CONAFE to the population living in poor, isolated areas where formal education system services are unavailable.

The objective of the program is to introduce reforms to consolidate the social protection system for the poorest segments of the population, and to improve the quality and efficiency of social spending. The Bank will thereby contribute to implementation of the
new government's social strategy.

30

20