[{"bbox": [71, 77, 757, 105], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Implementation of a credible stability-oriented macroeconomic policy;"}, {"bbox": [71, 118, 1157, 172], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Satisfactory progress in the implementation of the Salvadoran Ministry of Finance's Strategic Plan (Plan Estratégico Institucional 2015-2019 e 2020-2024 del Ministerio de Hacienda) and continued credibility and relevance thereof;"}, {"bbox": [71, 185, 1158, 267], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Satisfactory progress with regard to the public availability of timely, comprehensive and sound budgetary information in line with the PEFA's conclusions on transparency of the budget. Satisfactory progress on transparency regarding the implementation of the COVID response⁵;"}, {"bbox": [71, 277, 840, 305], "category": "Section-header", "text": "b) The specific conditions for disbursement of variable tranches were the following:"}, {"bbox": [71, 315, 1158, 395], "category": "Text", "text": "-The fulfilment of a number of indicators from the Plan Social's Performance Assessment Matrix (here forth MED (Matriz de Evaluación del Desempeño), which have been selected in order to evaluate performance and guide disbursement."}, {"bbox": [71, 408, 1160, 622], "category": "Text", "text": "Those indicators complemented the assessment of the Plan’s implementation and were carried out under the general conditions by focusing on the three programmes that have been selected as priorities because of their respective aims, all contributing to fight exclusion in El Salvador: reducing extreme poverty, fighting youth unemployment and exclusion, and promoting women’s economic empowerment. Thus, the indicators agreed upon with the Government of El Salvador will measure progress in key initiatives under the Plan Social that aim to decrease the incidence of extreme poverty and exclusion by: tackling key vulnerabilities throughout the life-cycle, providing social protection, targeted mechanisms to improve access to social services by populations in vulnerable situations, and promoting their productive inclusion as explained under section 4.1 above:"}, {"bbox": [71, 635, 1158, 742], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Ensuring free comprehensive care—including guidance on proper nutrition, prevention of high prevalence diseases and early detection of development problems– for children under one year as the first year of life as part of the 1,000 days window that are determining for their optimal physical and intellectual development (comprehensive care coverage for children under one year with at least six checks);"}, {"bbox": [71, 755, 1158, 835], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Increasing the average years of schooling of children and youth as a means to increase their future employability (number of children of families living in extreme poverty receiving stipends linked to third cycle/high school attendance);"}, {"bbox": [71, 849, 1158, 956], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Decrease the vulnerability of the elderly in a context in which, due to migration, they also often times end up heading a home (13.18% of Salvadoran households are headed by someone over 70) ⁶ and having children under their care (number of people above 70 that have no other pension that receive a basic non-contributive pension – \"Pensión Básica Universal or PBU);"}, {"bbox": [71, 969, 1160, 1077], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Support families living in extreme poverty through a personalised accompaniment (community social workers) to ensure their access to the different social protection instruments and basic services as a key mechanism of the EEPE to improve their living conditions and their capacity to lift themselves out of their exclusion situation (proportion of families living in extreme poverty that are covered by the personalised accompaniment of the EEPE);"}, {"bbox": [71, 1090, 1160, 1198], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Promoting the productive insertion of families living in extreme poverty (proportion of families living in extreme poverty that receive support under the productive inclusion component of the EEPE) as a means to ensure – and linked with the other mechanisms under the EEPE– they have the tools to gradually lift themselves out of extreme poverty;"}, {"bbox": [71, 1210, 1158, 1290], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Improve habitability conditions of housing by ensuring access to drinking water, as this has a direct impact on health –and malnutrition of infants– domestic workload and safety of women and children, and reduces basic expenses (number of household water connections installed);"}, {"bbox": [71, 1401, 1157, 1443], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ Satisfactory progress on transparency regarding the implementation of the COVID response among other sources, to be monitored through the following portals: www.cortedecuentas.gob.sv / https://covid19.gob.sv"}, {"bbox": [71, 1452, 433, 1475], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ Encuesta de Hogares y Propósitos Múltiples 2014."}, {"bbox": [597, 1615, 633, 1639], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[26]"}]