Table A1 Definitions of Social Spending Floors in EFF and ECF loans agreed in 2020-2023

Nepal

Child grant spending. The child grant reaches vulnerable households, is implemented by the federal government, and is monitorable in a timely way.

Congo, Dem. Rep.

The sum of: (i) Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health and primary health care spending; (ii) disbursement of Gavi-supported vaccine co-financing and traditional vaccines procurement, and (iii) disbursement of TB/Malaria/HIV/AIDS co-financing.

Mozambique

Transfers to Instituto Nacional de Acçao Social from the budget (through the treasury single account, i.e., not including transfers to INAS through project grants or project loans from external partners).

Argentina

The cumulative sum of all federal government spending (both recurrent and capital) on the following social assistance programs: (i) Asignación Universal para Protección Social, which includes the following sub-programs: Asignación Universal por Hijo, Asignación por Embarazo, and Ayuda Escolar Anual; (ii) Tarjeta Alimentar, and (iii) Progresar

Gabon

The sum of: (i) social services relating to social safety nets, free childbirth coverage, SAMU Social and seniors; (ii) legal assistance; (iii) the costs of the electrification program and hydraulic installations intended for rural areas without access to public water and electricity network; and (iv) the special solidarity contribution allocated to economically weak Gabonese.

Suriname

All the spending of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Housing on social protection programs, including the following cash transfer programs: General old-age pension; General Child benefit; Financial assistance for persons with disabilities; and Financial assistance for weak households.

Congo, Rep.

Public expenditure in priority social sectors deemed to be conducive to poverty reduction.

Barbados

Expenditures incurred by the central government on the following plans and programs, excluding operating expenditure, that are intended to have a positive impact on education, health, social protection, housing and community services and recreational activities: Welfare Department spending including cash transfers and assistance for house rents, utilities, food, and education to the poor and vulnerable; Child Care Board spending on protection of vulnerable children; Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme assisting jobless youth to start own businesses;  Strengthening Human and Social Development program targeting the unemployed and vulnerable families and youth; Alternative Care for the Elderly program targeting the elderly transferred to private care; and Provision of medication to HIV patients.

Egypt

Spending related to the budget of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Solidarity.

Jordan

The sum of: (i) non-wage components of the education and health sectors’ current expenditure envelope, including all spending directly related to efforts to prevent, detect, control, treat and/or contain the spread of COVID-19 spending; (ii) the National Aid Fund’s and other entities’ social protection programs; and (iii) the school feeding program.

Sudan

Spending on direct cash transfer, education, health, and training.

Kenya

The sum of: (i) cash transfers to orphans and vulnerable children; (ii) cash transfers to elderly persons; (iii) cash transfers to persons with severe disabilities; (iv) free primary education expenditure, free secondary education expenditure, school food and sanitary programs; and (v) free maternal healthcare, universal health coverage, health insurance subsidy for targeted categories (i.e., orphans, vulnerable children, elderly, and people with disabilities), and spending for vaccination and immunization.

Cabo Verde

expenditures incurred by the central government on the plans and programs that are intended to have a positive impact on education, health, and social protection, excluding the wages and salaries component.

Madagascar

The sum of budget allocations to the Ministries of Health, Education, Population and Water, excluding salaries and externally financed investment.

Benin

Expenditure executed from the State budget (from both domestic and external resources), excluding salary expenditure and relating mainly to public interventions in the areas of education, health and nutrition, the establishment of social safety nets, access to electricity, water and sanitation, microfinance (small and medium enterprises), as well as security and to civil protection. Priority social spending (PSE) is very selective and captures only spending that directly reduces poverty.

Uganda

All spending in health, education, and social development (excl. external financing).

The Gambia

Initial loan approval: Expenditures financed out of The Gambia Local Fund (GLF) on the following areas: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Education; Health; Nutrition, Population and HIV-AIDS; Infrastructure Program; Social Fund for Poverty Reduction; Implementation and Monitoring of Poverty Reduction Programs; Support to Cross- Cutting Programs; ICT Research and Development; Decentralization and Local Government Capacity Building; Governance and Civil Service Reform Program.

Second review: As above, but starting Q1 2021, the poverty-reducing expenditure will include the COVID-19 spending implemented through the COVID-19 project accounts.

Niger

Expenditures from the Government's own resources allocated to the social sectors and those directly benefiting poor households, children, young people and women in vulnerable situations, the elderly, the disabled, victims of armed conflict and trafficking, refugees, or displaced persons and the unemployed.

Afghanistan

Initial loan approval: the sum of pro-poor spending identified in accordance with the Afghanistan National Development Strategy poverty profile by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Health, and Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs, and Disabled.

First review: the sum of social spending identified in accordance with the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Plan II, by the central government, aiming at benefiting the poor and vulnerable populations in areas of education, healthcare, food and nutrition security, social safety net, pensions for martyrs and disabled, refugees and repatriates, skills development, women empowerment, and pandemic and natural disaster relief, within the central government’s operating and development budget during a fiscal year.

Moldova

Two separate loan conditions: (a) The sum of support for unemployment, the social assistance program (Ajutor Social), as well as the heating allowance during the cold season and the government’s energy poverty policy from the central government budget, and (b) developmental spending undertaken by the general government (Includes health, educational, and infrastructure spending)

Cameroon

The sum of: (i) for the education sector, total expenditure (current and capital) of the Ministries (Basic Education, Secondary Education, and Employment and Vocational Training); (ii) for the health sector, current and capital expenditure of the Ministry of Public Health, including COVID-19 related expenditures; and (iii) for other social sectors, current and capital expenditure of the Ministries of Labor and Social Security, Youth and Civic Education, Social Affairs, and Promotion of Women and Family; (iv) administered price subsidies (fuel at the pump, electricity to households), and (v) expenditures for the Social Safety Net Program.

Zambia

Central government expenditure on the Social Cash Transfer, Food Security Pack, Empowerment Fund (Women and Youth), the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, Water and Sanitation, budget transfers to the Public Service Pensions Fund, the Health Sector, and the Education Sector

Tanzania

Central government spending (recurrent and development) for education, health, water, social safety nets (including cash transfers through Tanzania’s Social Action Fund -TASAF), rural electrification, agricultural inputs, as well as for upgrading and maintenance of rural roads, including transfers to local governments for health, education, and rural water supply.

Chad

Public spending by the following ministries: (i) National Education and Civic Promotion; (ii) Public Health, including military health services and National Solidarity; (iii) Women, Early Childhood Protection and National Solidarity; (iv) Production, Irrigation and Agricultural Equipment; (v) Livestock and Animal Production; (vi) Environment Water and Sanitation; (vii) Professional Training and small Job Promotion, and (viii) Higher Education.