Annex 1: Structure of the NPRSP
| Pillars | Subareas | Action lines |
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| 1. Strengthening governance, modernizing the public administration, and guaranteeing macroeconomic stability | 1.1 Strengthening governance and guaranteeing macroeconomic stability | 1.1.1 Continue to improve budget management 1.1.2 Strengthen macroeconomic management |
| 1.2 Modernizing the public administration, and capacity-building | 1.2.1 Reform the public administration 1.2.2 Undertake capacity-building |
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| 1.3 Consolidating the rule of law and the justice system, and encouraging decentralization and social dialogue and consensus-building | 1.3.1 Promote justice that is swift, transparent, accessible, and independent, and strengthen the People’s National Assembly 1.3.2 Foster local development and promote social dialogue and consensus-building |
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| 1.4 Reforming the security sector | 1.4.1 Transfer barracks from military to civilian use, renovate them, and raise the standard of living they provide 1.4.2 Transform security forces into agents of peace and consolidation of the rule of law. |
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| 2. Promoting economic growth and job creation | 2.1 Improving the business climate and fostering economic sectors that employ the poor | 2.1.1 Improving the business and investment climate 2.1.2 Fostering productive sectors and promoting economic diversification and competitiveness |
| 2.2 Developing infrastructure to support production | 2.2.1 Rehabilitate the energy sector 2.2.2 Develop the highway infrastructure 2.2.3 Support the development of land and river infrastructure 2.2.4 Support the sector comprising air services, weather services, and telecommunications |
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| 3. Expanding access to social services and basic infrastructure | 3.1 Providing better access to quality education | 3.1.1 Improve access to primary, secondary, and postsecondary education 3.1.2 Guarantee basic quality schooling for all |
| 3.2 Improving the state of people’s health | 3.2.1 Improve the availability and quality of health services 3.2.2 Combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases |
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| 3.3 Improving people’s standard of living | 3.2.3 Improve maternal and child health 3.3.1 Improve access to drinking water and sanitation 3.3.2 Improve housing for the poor |
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| 4. Raising the standard of living of vulnerable groups | 4.1 Promoting the socioeconomic integration of vulnerable groups | 4.1.1 Improve social protection for vulnerable groups 4.1.2 Encourage income-generating activities |
| 4.2 Carrying out specific actions to assist vulnerable groups | 4.2.1 Promote women’s centers to provide shelter and combat illiteracy 4.2.2 Promote recreational activities and bring organization to spontaneous settlements |
| Pillars | Subareas | Action lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Strengthening governance, modernizing the public administration, and guaranteeing macroeconomic stability | 1.1 Strengthening governance and guaranteeing macroeconomic stability | 1.1.1 Continue to improve budget management 1.1.2 Strengthen macroeconomic management |
| 1.2 Modernizing the public administration, and capacity-building | 1.2.1 Reform the public administration 1.2.2 Undertake capacity-building |
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| 1.3 Consolidating the rule of law and the justice system, and encouraging decentralization and social dialogue and consensus-building | 1.3.1 Promote justice that is swift, transparent, accessible, and independent, and strengthen the People’s National Assembly 1.3.2 Foster local development and promote social dialogue and consensus-building |
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| 1.4 Reforming the security sector | 1.4.1 Transfer barracks from military to civilian use, renovate them, and raise the standard of living they provide 1.4.2 Transform security forces into agents of peace and consolidation of the rule of law. |
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| 2. Promoting economic growth and job creation | 2.1 Improving the business climate and fostering economic sectors that employ the poor | 2.1.1 Improving the business and investment climate 2.1.2 Fostering productive sectors and promoting economic diversification and competitiveness |
| 2.2 Developing infrastructure to support production | 2.2.1 Rehabilitate the energy sector 2.2.2 Develop the highway infrastructure 2.2.3 Support the development of land and river infrastructure 2.2.4 Support the sector comprising air services, weather services, and telecommunications |
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| 3. Expanding access to social services and basic infrastructure | 3.1 Providing better access to quality education | 3.1.1 Improve access to primary, secondary, and postsecondary education 3.1.2 Guarantee basic quality schooling for all |
| 3.2 Improving the state of people’s health | 3.2.1 Improve the availability and quality of health services 3.2.2 Combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases |
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| 3.3 Improving people’s standard of living | 3.2.3 Improve maternal and child health 3.3.1 Improve access to drinking water and sanitation 3.3.2 Improve housing for the poor |
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| 4. Raising the standard of living of vulnerable groups | 4.1 Promoting the socioeconomic integration of vulnerable groups | 4.1.1 Improve social protection for vulnerable groups 4.1.2 Encourage income-generating activities |
| 4.2 Carrying out specific actions to assist vulnerable groups | 4.2.1 Promote women’s centers to provide shelter and combat illiteracy 4.2.2 Promote recreational activities and bring organization to spontaneous settlements |
Annex 2: Monitoring table of MDG indicators
| Goals/targets | Indicators | Years | |||||||
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| 1990/1991 (Base year) | 2000 (MICS) | 2002 (ILAP) | 2004 | 2006 (MICS) | 2008 | 2010 (MICS IV/SR) | Target for 2015 | ||
| 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger | |||||||||
| Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. | Extreme poverty rate | 26.0 | n.a. | 20.8 | n.a. | n.a. | - | 13.0 | |
| Absolute poverty rate | 49.0 | 64.7 | n.a. | - | 24.5 | ||||
| Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. | Prevalence of moderate underweight (percentage of children under 5 years of age)3. | 32.9 | 25.0 | n.a. | n.a. | 19.4 | 17.0 | 16.45 | |
| 2. Achieve universal primary education | |||||||||
| Ensure that by 2015 all children, can complete a full course of primary boys. | Gross enrollment rate4. | 46.3 | 79.6 | 91.6 | 99.4 | 102 | n.a. | 100 | |
| Net enrollment rate. | 23.0 | 41.0 | 45.3 | 56.9 | 67.4 | 100 | |||
| Rate of completion of primary education. | 33.0 | 43.6 | 48 | 82 | |||||
| 3. Promote gender equality and empower women | |||||||||
| Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. | Ratio of girls to boys in primary education. | 0.56 | 0.67 | 0.83 | 0.9 | 0.94 | 1:1 | ||
| Ratio of girls to boys in secondary education | 0.13 | 0.5 | 0.59 | 0.7 | 0.73 | 1:1 | |||
| Literacy rate of 15-24 year-old women. | 12.9 | 16.76 | 28.4 | 100 | |||||
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament. | 20.05 | 8.0 | 15.0 | 14.0 | 50 | ||||
| 4. Reduce child mortality (percent of children under 5) | |||||||||
| Reduce by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate. | Under-five child mortality (per 1000). | 246 | 203 | 223 | 155 | 80 | |||
| Infant mortality rate (per 1000). | 142 | 124 | 138 | 104 | 47.3 | ||||
| Proportion of children immunized against measles .7 | 53 | 59 | 55 | 65 | 698 | 100 | |||
| 5. Improve maternal health | |||||||||
| Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate. | Maternal mortality rate (per 100 000). | 914 | 822 | 800 | 229 | ||||
| 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases | |||||||||
| Halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and begin to reverse the current trend. | HIV/AIDS prevalence rate. | 5.9 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 5.9 | ||||
| Keep malaria and other major diseases in check, and begin to reverse the current trend. | Malaria prevalence rate. Tuberculosis prevalence rate. |
15.0 | |||||||
| 7. Ensure environmental sustainability | |||||||||
| Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies programs, and reverse the loss of environmental resources. | Proportion of land area covered by forest. | ||||||||
| Halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. | Proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water or to an improved water source. | 65 | 46 | 65 | 64 | ||||
| Goals/targets | Indicators | Years | |||||||
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| 1990/1991 (Base year) | 2000 (MICS) | 2002 (ILAP) | 2004 | 2006 (MICS) | 2008 | 2010 (MICS IV/SR) | Target for 2015 | ||
| 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger | |||||||||
| Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day. | Extreme poverty rate | 26.0 | n.a. | 20.8 | n.a. | n.a. | - | 13.0 | |
| Absolute poverty rate | 49.0 | 64.7 | n.a. | - | 24.5 | ||||
| Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. | Prevalence of moderate underweight (percentage of children under 5 years of age)3. | 32.9 | 25.0 | n.a. | n.a. | 19.4 | 17.0 | 16.45 | |
| 2. Achieve universal primary education | |||||||||
| Ensure that by 2015 all children, can complete a full course of primary boys. | Gross enrollment rate4. | 46.3 | 79.6 | 91.6 | 99.4 | 102 | n.a. | 100 | |
| Net enrollment rate. | 23.0 | 41.0 | 45.3 | 56.9 | 67.4 | 100 | |||
| Rate of completion of primary education. | 33.0 | 43.6 | 48 | 82 | |||||
| 3. Promote gender equality and empower women | |||||||||
| Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. | Ratio of girls to boys in primary education. | 0.56 | 0.67 | 0.83 | 0.9 | 0.94 | 1:1 | ||
| Ratio of girls to boys in secondary education | 0.13 | 0.5 | 0.59 | 0.7 | 0.73 | 1:1 | |||
| Literacy rate of 15-24 year-old women. | 12.9 | 16.76 | 28.4 | 100 | |||||
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament. | 20.05 | 8.0 | 15.0 | 14.0 | 50 | ||||
| 4. Reduce child mortality (percent of children under 5) | |||||||||
| Reduce by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate. | Under-five child mortality (per 1000). | 246 | 203 | 223 | 155 | 80 | |||
| Infant mortality rate (per 1000). | 142 | 124 | 138 | 104 | 47.3 | ||||
| Proportion of children immunized against measles .7 | 53 | 59 | 55 | 65 | 698 | 100 | |||
| 5. Improve maternal health | |||||||||
| Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate. | Maternal mortality rate (per 100 000). | 914 | 822 | 800 | 229 | ||||
| 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases | |||||||||
| Halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and begin to reverse the current trend. | HIV/AIDS prevalence rate. | 5.9 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 5.9 | ||||
| Keep malaria and other major diseases in check, and begin to reverse the current trend. | Malaria prevalence rate. Tuberculosis prevalence rate. |
15.0 | |||||||
| 7. Ensure environmental sustainability | |||||||||
| Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies programs, and reverse the loss of environmental resources. | Proportion of land area covered by forest. | ||||||||
| Halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. | Proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water or to an improved water source. | 65 | 46 | 65 | 64 | ||||
1
That first report contains sections on “lessons learned” and recommendations with a view to the forthcoming second NPRSP. Those sections have intentionally not been repeated in this report.
2
The joint IMF/IDA debt sustainability analysis for Guinea-Bissau, done at the end of May 2010, may be found at the Fund’s website as part of IMF Country Report No. 10/117, May 2010.
3
The 32.9 percent rate of underweight under-five children refers to 1991 and derives from the nationwide nutritional survey carried out under the “Population, Health, and Nutrition” Project. Data for 2008 are derived from the “SMART” Nutritional Survey of December 2008. This report draws on the methodology developed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), since it makes it possible to compare the results with those of previous surveys.
4
Except for 2006, gross enrollment rates are derived from data compiled by GIPASE under the World Bank’s assessment of social sectors of January 2009.
5
Data refer to the country’s first democratically-elected legislature, in 1994.
6
Women over 18 years of age.
7
Source: Health Information System, PEV Directorate, for 1990, 2000, and 2002.
8
Children who were immunized at any time prior to the MICS IV survey.