Table of contents:
Annex. Selection of Social Assistance Programme in the Arab Region
| Country | Programme name or description | Implementing agency | Nature of benefit | Mainstream or disability specific | Conditional or unconditional | Beneficiaries | Targeting method | Number of beneficiaries | Number of beneficiaries with disabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | La Pension Handicapée à 100% | La direction de l’action sociale et de la solidarité de wilaya | Cash transfers | Disability specific | Unconditional | Persons with disabilities of a 100% degree who lack resourcesa | Categorical targeting, means testing | 238 968 persons with disabilities (2016)b | |
| Egypt | Takaful and Karama | Ministry of Social Affairs | Cash transfers | Mainstream | Conditional (Takaful) and unconditional (Karama) | Poor households (Takaful), poor elderly persons and poor persons with disabilities (Karama) | Proxy means testing, categorical targeting, geographical targeting | 1.5 million households, up to 6.7 million people (2017)c | 50 038 Karama beneficiaries with disabilities (2016).d No data on prevalence in Takaful beneficiaries |
| Iraq | Caretakers’ssalaries | Commission on the Care of Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs | Cash transfers | Disability specific | Unconditional | Persons caring for persons with disabilities | Categorical targeting | 1 700 persons caring for persons with disabilities (2016)e | |
| Jordan | Handicapped care cash assistance | National Aid Fund | Cash transfers | Disability specific | Unconditional | Households earning less than 450 dinars per month who consistently care for a person with a disabilityf | Categorical targeting, means testing | 7 100 families (2010)g | |
| Mauritania | Activités Génératrices de Revenus | Ministry of Social Affairs, Childhood and Family | Creation of employment opportunities | Disability specific | Unconditional | Persons with disabilities | Categorical targeting | 244 persons (2016)h | |
| Mauritania | Tekavoul | Tadamoun agency | Cash transfers | Mainstream | Conditionali | Poor households | Proxy means testing, geographical targeting | 5 100 households, 33 600 persons (2017)j | N/A |
| Mauritania | Cash transfers for children with multiple disabilities | Ministry of Social Affairs, Childhood and Family | Cash transfers | Disability specific | Unconditional | Households of children with multiple disabilities | Categorical targeting | 110 children with multiple disabilities and their households (2016)k | |
| Mauritania | Distribution of land lots for persons with disabilities | N/A | Distribution of land lots for habitation | Disability specific | Unconditional | Persons with disabilities | Categorical targeting | 200 beneficiaries (2016) | |
| Morocco | Aide en Nature | Entraide Nationale | Food aid | Disability specific | Unconditional | Persons with physical and visual impairmentsl | Categorical targeting | 5 584 beneficiaries (2014)m | |
| Morocco | Tayssir | Ministry of Education | Cash transfers | Mainstream | Conditional | Poor households | Categorical targeting, geographical targeting | 526 400 households, 860 100 schoolchildren (2017)n | N/A |
| State of Palestine | Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme (PNCTP) | Ministry of Social Development | Cash transfers. Beneficiaries also get access to health insurance and other programmeso | Mainstream | Unconditional | Poor households | Proxy means testing | 761 532 personsp | 65 980 persons with disabilitiesq |
| Sudan | Social Initiatives Program (SIP) | Ministry of Welfare and Social Security | Cash transfers, public worksr | Mainstream | Unconditionals | Poor households | Proxy means testingt | 500 000 households (2016)u | N/A |
| Tunisia | Programme National d’Aide aux Familles Nécessiteuses (PNAFN) | Ministry of Social Affairs | Cash transfers. Beneficiaries also get access to health insurance. | Mainstream | Unconditionalv | Households who are poor, members are incapable of working, head is absent, lack any support or whose housing conditions are degradedw | Means testing, proxy means testing, categorical targeting | 230 000 households (2015)x | Survey suggests 39.1% of beneficiary households, against 8.04% of all households, include at least one person with a disabilityy |
| Yemen | Labour Intensive Public Works Project | Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation | Public works | Mainstream | Unconditional | Poor households | Geographical targeting, self-targeting, proxy means testing, community based targetingz | 112 712 months of employment created (2016)aa | N/A |
a Algeria, Law No. 02-09 of 8 May 2002 on the protection and promotion of disabled persons. Available from http://www.africanchildinfo.net/clr/Legislation%20Per%20Country/algeria/algeria_disability_2002_fr.pdf.
b Algeria, Ministry of National Solidarity, Family and the Status of Women, “Programmes du secteur: protection et promotion des personnes handicapées” (Sector programmes: protection and promotion of persons with disabilities), (n.d.). Available from http://www.msnfcf.gov.dz/fr/ (accessed 31 March 2017).
c Afrah Alawi Al-Ahmadi, “Egypt, Arab Republic of - Strengthening social safety net project: P145699 - Implementation status results report: sequence 04” (Washington, D.C., World Bank Group, 2017), p. 2. Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/288871493085672050/pdf/ISR-Disclosable-P145699-04-24-2017-1493085656041.pdf.
d Egypt, Ministry of Social Solidarity, “Strengthening social protection systems: Takaful and Karama”, report presented by Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Waly, Mexico, September 2016. Available from https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/153881/Strengthening_Social_Protection_Systems__Takaful_and_Karama__-_H.E._Minister_Ghada_Waly.pdf.
e United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Iraq (Baghdad, 2016). Available from http://www.uniraq.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=download&id=2118_ba29368d4a62b7b36938b845a174394d&lang=en.
f Sources differ on eligibility criteria. Only households including a person suffering a chronic mental illness are eligible, according to United Nations Development Programme, “Jordan poverty reduction strategy: final report” (2013), p. 54. Available from http://www.jo.undp.org/content/dam/jordan/docs/Poverty/Jordanpovertyreductionstrategy.pdf. The programme targets families caring for a child with a disability, according to Hanna Röth, Zina Nimeh and Jessica Hagen-Zanker, A Mapping of Social Protection and Humanitarian Assistance Programmes in Jordan: What Support are Refugees Eligible for? Working Paper no. 501 (London: Overseas Development Institute and Maastricht University, 2017). Available from https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/11253.pdf.
g UNDP, ”Jordan poverty reduction strategy” (see endnote vi).
h Abdallahi Diakite, Ministry of Social Affairs, Childhood and Family, Mauritania, email to authors, 5 May 2017.
i Conditions are limited to participation in so-called promotion activities, but according to the World Bank, “over time, where the provision of basic services is sufficient, the program will explore the option of making payments conditional on the actual use of such services”. See World Bank, “Mauritania – Social safety net system project, Project Appraisal Document, no. PAD1185” (Washington, D.C., 2015), pp 40-44. Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/395981468179329737/pdf/PAD1185-PAD-P150430-IDA-R2015-0092-1-Box391434B-OUO-9.pdf.
j “Tadamoun Director General chairs regional workshop on Tekavoul programme implementation”, L’Authentique (Mauritania), 17 April 2017; Aline Coudouel, “Mauritania social safety net system: P150430 - Implementation status results report: sequence 05”, p.5. (Washington, D.C., World Bank Group, 2017). Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/405311498757687697/pdf/ISR-Disclosable-P150430-06-29-2017-1498757676565.pdf.
k Diakite, email to authors (see endnote viii).
l Morocco, “L'Entraide Nationale en Chiffres” (National assistance figures), (2013), p. 113. Available from http://www.social.gov.ma/sites/default/files/تحميل_18.pdf.
m Ibid., p 120.
n Ahlam Nazih, “Abandon scolaire: Tayssir, neuf ans après” (School dropout: Tayssir, nine years later), L’Economist (Morocco), no. 5062 (11 July 2017). Available from http://www.leconomiste.com/article/1014817-abandon-scolaire-tayssir-neuf-ans-apres (accessed 30 August 2017).
o Nicola Jones and Mohammed Shaheen, Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and Community Perspectives on the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme. Part 2: The Case of the West Bank (London, Overseas Development Institute, 2012), p. 36. Available from https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8179.pdf.
p Iqbal Kaur and others, West Bank and Gaza - Disability in the Palestinian territories: Assessing Situation and Services for People with Disabilities (Washington, D.C., World Bank Group, 2016), p. 59. The source does not specify a date for the data. Available from https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/25182/Disability0Study.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
q Ibid.
r The public works component of the SIP had not been launched in June 2017, though beneficiaries had been identified. See Randa G. El-Rashidi, “Sudan social safety net project: P148349 - Implementation status results report: sequence 02” (Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2017), p. 5. Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951321498662183860/pdf/ISR-Disclosable-P148349-06-28-2017-1498662159270.pdf.
s The public works pilot scheme will reportedly inform a gradual transformation of the current programme into a broader social safety net system, combing unconditional and conditional CTs, and livelihood support activities. See World Bank, “Africa – Sudan social safety net project. Project Information Document, report no. 102657” (Washington, D.C. World Bank, 2015), p. 5. Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968341467999972249/pdf/102657-PID-P148349-Appraisal-stage-Box394837B-PUBLIC-Disclosed-1-11-2016.pdf.
t A new PMT formula is being introduced. See World Bank, “Africa – Sudan social safety net project” (see endnote xix).
u World Bank, “World Bank launches new project to strengthen Sudan’s social protection systems”, press release, Khartoum, 11 February 2016. Available from http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/02/11/world-bank-launches-new-project-to-strengthen-sudans-social protection-systems.
v While the basic PNAFN grant is unconditional, the programme includes a top-up grant for each child enrolled in school. It is not known whether exceptions are made for children with disabilities who cannot access education.
w Dorothea Chen and others, Assistance Technique de la Banque Mondiale sur le Financement de la Sante en Tunisie: Etude sur l’Assistance Medicale Gratuite (World Bank technical assistance on health financing in Tunisia: study on free medical assistance), (Washington, D.C., World Bank Group, 2016). Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/687831472236995453/Assistance-technique-de-la-Banque-Mondiale-sur-le-financement-de-la-sante-en-Tunisie-etude-sur-l- medical-free-help.
x Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Sociales and African Development Bank, Évaluation de la performance des programmes d’assistance sociale en Tunisie (Evaluation of the performance of social assistance programmes in Tunisia), (May 2017), p. 34. Available from http://www.cres.tn/uploads/tx_wdbiblio/Rapport_CRES_mai_2017.pdf.
y Ibid., p. 179.
z ESCWA and the International Labour Organization, “Study on the labour intensive work programme in Yemen”, Working Paper (ESCWA, 2014), pp. 29-31. Available from https://www.unescwa.org/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/page_attachments/study_on_the_labour_intensive_work_programme_in_yemen_0.pdf.
aa Sabine W. Beddies, “Yemen, Republic of – Labor intensive public works project: (P122594) – Implementation status results report: sequence 10” (Washington, D.C., World Bank Group, 2016), p. 6. Available from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/976071479771197406/pdf/ISR-Disclosable-P122594-11-21-2016-1479771178971.pdf.