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Basic Information
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Institutions and agencies involved
Programme type
Programme Details
Programme objectives
It is a social protection programme that links families living in extreme poverty to conditional cash transfers, targeted subsidies, socio-educative support, and promotes the access to public services to achieve an integral family development. Also, this programme operates through seven components seeking for capabilities building, values and empowerment. Finally, it looks for opportunities for income generating, employment, and entrepreneurship in order to create a full realisation of citizenship rights and to achieve a greater access to public services.
Programme components
1a) ILAE (Incentivo a la Asistencia Escolar / Incentives for School Attendance); 1b) Comer es Primero (Comer es Primero Food Scheme); 1c) BonoLuz (Energy consumption subsidy); 1d) BonoGas (Gas consumption subsidy); 1e) Studying Progress School Bonus; 2) Identification; 3) Integral Health; 4) Human Training and Citizen Awareness; 5) Food Security, Nutrition and Income Generation; 6) Access to Information Technologies and Communications; 7) Habitability and Environmental Protection;
Conditionalities (if any)
1a) ILAE (Incentivo a la Asistencia Escolar / Incentives for School Attendance): Education: Enrollment and school attendance of at least 80%; Sanctions:Definitive suspension if there is non-compliance of the conditonalities
1b) Comer es Primero (Comer es Primero Food Scheme): Health: Attendance of health controls for children under 5 years old. Sanctions: Definitive suspension if there is not an attendance to health controls.
1c) Studying Progress School Bonus: Education: 80% of attendance. Sanctions: The incentive is suspended when there is an attendance less than 80% in a two-month period until the next verification.
The family counseling lengths two and a half years, and seeks to develop skills to exercise rights and duties, also to facilitate the access to public services. During the process, families should fulfill different requisites, such as: signing a contract to meet conditionalities and participation in other actions, attendance to training sessions to achieve new skills, and participation on organised groups and comunitarian activities.
Coverage
Programme expenditure
0.37% of the GDP (2017)
Source of funding: Government of the Dominican Republic
Targeting and eligiblity
Targeting methods
Target groups
Eligibility criteria
Instrument of selection: Quality of Life Index (ICV) of the Unique System of Beneficiaries (SIUBEN).
1a) ILAE (Incentivo a la Asistencia Escolar / Incentives for School Attendance): Households with children between 6 and 16 years old. The age bracket was 5 to 21 until 2013.
1b) Comer es Primero (Comer es Primero Food Scheme): All beneficiary households of the programme.
1c) BonoLuz (Energy consumption subsidy): Poor households receiving the subsidy Bonogas and identified by the SIUBEN.
1d) BonoGas (Gas consumption subsidy): Poor and lower middle class.
1e) Studying Progress School Bonus: Household with members enrolled in secondary education under 21 years old.
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Exit strategies or criteria: Due to reiterated breach of conditionalities in health and / or education. SIUBEN recertifies the ICV score to families beneficiaries of PROSOLI. Recertification every 4 years.
Coverage and other information
Type of benefits
Cash, Energy consumption subsidy, Gas consumption subsidy, Social Support Services, Training;
Amount of benefits
1a) ILAE (Incentivo a la Asistencia Escolar / Incentives for School Attendance): Households in poverty and extreme poverty with one child receive RD$150 monthly, and up to RD$600 monthly in the case of households with 4 or more children. Maximum per household:Four recipients per family;
1b) Comer es Primero (Comer es Primero Food Scheme): RD$ 825. Maximum per household: One transfer per household;
1c) BonoLuz (Energy consumption subsidy): The amount is variable and corresponds to the value of the energy that the beneficiary household consumes with a maximum of 100 kilowatts: between RD$25.90 and RD$370.00 per month;
1d) BonoGas (Gas consumption subsidy): RD$228.00 per month;
1e) Studying Progress School Bonus: RD$ 250.00 per month for each member under 21 years old enrolled the 1st and 2nd grades, RD$375.00 per month to those are enrolled and attend 3rd and 4th grades at secondary level. Finally RD$500.00 per month to those who attend technical-vocational level.
Payment/delivery frequency
1a) ILAE (Incentivo a la Asistencia Escolar / Incentives for School Attendance): Bimonthly
1b) Comer es Primero (Comer es Primero Food Scheme): Monthly
1e) Studying Progress School Bonus: Bimonthly
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and frequency
Registry of recipients: Unique System of Beneficiaries (SIUBEN).
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