Condition for Release of the Second Tranche
The conditions for the release of the Second Tranche are
as follows:
A. Devolving Social Services to Local Governments
(i) Sindh shall have established a framework
for monitoring the delegation of administrative and financial
powers to the DGs and the TMAs
(ii) Public Health Engineering Department,
Sindh shall have completed devolution of administrative
and technical sanctioning powers to the TMAs
(iii) The Chief Secretary and the DGs shall
have approved the Delegation Plan.
(iv) Sindh shall have approved, published,
and initiated implementation of the new role and responsibilities
of the PLDs.
B. Improve Social Sector Financing
(i) Sindh, the DGs and
TMAs shall have agreed to maintain the level of social sector
expenditure as a proportion of total revenues in the fiscal
year 2003-2004 and shall have allocated Thirty-three Million
Dollars ($33,000,000) as additionality.
(ii) The PFC Shall have
established a mechanism for the needs and performance based
distribution of the PFC grant (hereinafter called the PFC
Grant) to the DGs and the TMAs.
(iii) Within one (1) month of the start of
the fiscal year 2005, Sindh shall have transferred twenty
five percent (25%) of total non-salary allocations for the
DGs and the TMAs through Account No. IV and shall have agreed
to transfer seventy five percent (75%) of total non-salary
allocation on a monthly basis.
C. Improve Participation, Linkages, and Public
Accountability
(i) Sindh shall have approved the GRAP
(ii) Sindh shall have implemented the provincial
action to promote transparent and participatory planning
in the DGs and the TMAs
(iii) Majority of the DGs and the TMAs shall
have executed the MOUs
D. Rationalize Services and Set Minimum Standards
(i) The DGs and the TMAs shall have utilized
the conditional grants in accordance with the agreed eligibility
criteria of scope, process and performance.
(ii) The DGs shall have
developed strategies to rationalize service, staff and funds
and shall have incorporated such strategies in their annual
sector plans.
(iii) The DGs and the TMAs shall have assessed
technical and financial feasibility before committing to
new civil works or reopening schools, schemes or services.
(iv) The DGs shall have recruited staff on
need basis using a transparent selection procedure.
(v) Sindh shall have, in consultation with
the TMAs, prepared an interim solid wasted management policy.
E. Public Private Partnership for
Improved Services Delivery
(i) Sindh shall have, in consultation with
the DGs and the TMAs, approved expansion of support to non-formal
home schools for girls, health boards and VDAs
(ii) Majority of DGs shall have provided
financial support to the SMCs for shelter less schools.
(iii) The DGs shall have allocated at least
fifteen percent (15%) of conditional grants to the CBOs.