Burkina Faso Third Fiscal Management, Sustainable Growth, and Service Delivery Development Policy Financing

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The development objectives of the Third Fiscal Management, Sustainable Growth, and Service Delivery Development Policy Financing in Burkina Faso support the Government's efforts to: (i) strengthen fiscal management; (ii) improve natural resources management and livestock productivity; and (iii) enhance service delivery and social spending efficiency. Pillar 1, strengthening fiscal management, has the following results indicators: (1) number of business and individual taxpayers registered in the government’s taxpayer database; (2) property taxes collected by general government (as a share of GDP); (3) proportion of public investment projects included in the budget that have at least one feasibility study validated by the national committee for validation of feasibility studies and project documents; and (4) annual nominal wage bill growth rate. Pillar 2, improving natural resource management and livestock productivity has the following results Indicators: (1) registered exports of artisanal gold mines (in cumulative tons); (2) hectares of delimited classified forested areas excluded from the mining cadaster to avoid conversion to another land use (3) reduction of greenhouse gas emissions related to registration of classified forests (tons of CO2 equivalent); (4) number of artisanal mining sites formalized through the granting of a management convention by ANEEMAS and adopting natural capital preservation standards; (5) number of small ruminant herd vaccinated against the sheep and goat plague (PPR); and (6) share of women-owned small ruminants vaccinated against PPR. Pillar 3, enhancing service delivery and social spending efficiency has the following results indicators: (1) share of civil servants outside the capital region (Centre); (2) proportion of rural primary health care facilities that meet minimum workload indicators of staffing need standards; (3) proportion of health facilities that experience shortages of listed essential medications (tracer medicines) per year; (4) total number of households included in the social registry; and (5) share of female-headed households included in the social registry.