The World Bank Brazil-Salvador Social Multi-Sector Service Delivery Project (P162033)

Key Results (From PCN) The following indicators are proposed to track progress toward the PDO.

- • of pupils at adequate level of literacy and numeracy at the end of the second grade • of pupils at adequate level of literacy and numeracy at the end of the second grade
- • Proportion of patients accessing health multi-centers referred by primary care units through the municipal regulation system
- • of families supported or monitored by the Integrated Family Support Program at CRAS • of families supported or monitored by the Integrated Family Support Program at CRAS
- • rate for residential property tax (IPTU) payments • rate for residential property tax (IPTU) payments
- D. Concept Description

Component 1 - Support for strategic actions to improve service delivery ($120 million) 1 - Support for strategic actions to improve service delivery ($120 million) . This component with a preliminary total of US$120 million will provide support for the implementation of Eligible Expenditures Programs (EEPs) and key reform actions to ensure, access, quality and sustainability of services in education, health and social assistance following a results-based disbursement approach. The EEPs will consist of priority public expenditure programs in education, health and social assistance. The key performance targets and reform actions will be captured as disbursement-linked indicators (DLIs) and, possibly, as secondary indicators (not linked to disbursement of the Bank financing). Four secretariats, Education, Health, Social Promotion, and Finance will be responsible for delivering the agreed performance targets to be captured as DLIs. Sub-component 1.1: Education. 1.1: Education. This Sub-component would provide support for efforts by the Municipal Secretariat of Education (SMED) in: (i) ensuring access to quality early childhood education; (ii) improving data quality of fundamental education; and (iii) implementing fiscally sustainable human resources policy. Sub-component 1.2: Health. 1.2: Health. This sub-component would support the following health service delivery improvements: (i) expanding access to primary, secondary and tertiary care; (ii) reorganizing work practices and processes to enhance health care quality; and (iii) developing management technologies and mechanisms for making the municipal health system sustainable. Sub-component 1.3. Social Assistance. 1.3. Social Assistance. This Sub-component would provide support for efforts by the Municipal Secretariat of Social Promotion (SEMPS) in: (i) strengthening the basic social assistance network to further expand effective coverage and improve the services; (ii) improving data quality of Cadastro Unico ; and (iii) enhancing SEMPS' organizational capacity. Sub-component 1.4: Tax Administration. 1.4: Tax Administration. Salvador has managed to grow its own tax revenues strongly in recent years. However, a comparison with other major Brazilian cities shows that there is further scope for increasing revenue collection through more efficient tax administration, without raisi ng rates. This applies in particular to the city's two largest sources of tax revenue, the services tax ( Imposto sobre Serviços de Qualquer Natureza - ISS) and the property tax ( Imposto sobre a Propriedade Predial e Territorial Urbana - IPTU). Increasing tax revenue is important as the city needs to invest heavily in improved public services and transfers from other levels of government cannot be expected to grow sufficiently to pay for it. The sub-component will support efforts to (i) improve compliance with ISS payments and (ii) increase IPTU collection.