Burkina Faso Second Fiscal Management, Sustainable Growth and Health Service Delivery Development Policy Operation

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The Fiscal Management, Sustainable Growth and Health Service Delivery operation is the second in a programmatic series of three Development Policy Financing (DPF) operations. It is a single-tranche disbursement of IDA Credit for EUR 67.60 million (US73.975 million dollars equivalent) and IDA grant SDR 54.30 (US73.975 million dollars equivalent). The Program development objectives (PDOs) are to (i) strengthen fiscal management; (ii) improve natural resources management and raise mining and livestock productivity; and (iii) improve health service delivery and social spending efficiency. In the context of a fragile and poor country facing hard security, humanitarian and, most recently, COVID-19 shocks, the program supported by the DPF series has preserved modest but steady progress on structural reforms, while contributing to the response to the COVID-19 crisis. The series selectively addresses three binding constraints to growth of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF): scarce public resources, low agricultural and mining productivity, and inefficient health and social service delivery. These three critical areas of reform are supported by a solid macroeconomic framework and a public sector capable of creating fiscal and delivering social services to the extent of its possibilities. By creating fiscal space, providing key tools to redeploy health professionals, improving control of the distribution of medicines in COVID-19-affected areas, and setting the basis for a proper registration mechanism of indigents, including those testing positive to the virus and eligible IDPs, this DPF complements an emergency COVID-19 response investment project financing (IPF) supporting the Government’s efforts aiming to prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19, while strengthening national systems for public health preparedness.

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Raw Materials, Government