Objective

To fulfill basic rights of access to health and comprehensive development recognized in the State´s Constitution, to reduce levels of maternal and infant mortality and chronic malnutrition in children less than 2 years of age.

Conditional cash transfer

This cash transfer is intended as an incentive for the use of health services by the mother during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as compliance with protocols regarding comprehensive control, growth and development of the child from birth through two years of age.

This transfer is paid as follows:

• Transfer bonus for prenatal checkups: Pregnant women should present themselves to four prenatal visits, for each attendance they receive a bonus of BOB 50 (USD 7).
• Transfer bonus for institutional delivery and postnatal check: Women during their postnatal period receive for their institutional delivery and postnatal control the sum of BOB 120 (USD 17).

 Transfer bonus for bimonthly comprehensive health check-ups: Children less than 2 years of age should be presented to 12 bimonthly comprehensive health check-ups, receive the sum of BOB 125 (USD 18) for each.

The following are beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer after voluntary registration and verification of documentation:

• Women in gestation and postpartum that present themselves to four prenatal checkups, institutional childbirth and postnatal check-ups.
• Every child under one year of age at the time of registration, until she or he is two years old. They must assist to the 12 bimonthly comprehensive health check-ups.

People that will not receive this Conditional Cash Transfers include pregnant women and children below two years of age who are beneficiaries of social security in the short term. Nor are beneficiaries pregnant women whose last child born alive is less than two years old at the moment of their registration

Nacional

2013: 809,049 people

2013: BOB$122,300,000 (USD$17,322,000).

Ministerio de Salud

The Ministry of Health and Sports is responsible for the administration and payment of the Conditional Cash Transfer (Bono Madre Niño- Niña "Juana Azurduy").

Plan Nacional de Desarrollo “Bolivia Digna, Soberana, Productiva y Democrática para Vivir Bien”

Decreto Supremo Nº 066/2009, instituye el incentivo para la maternidad segura y el desarrollo integral de la población infantil de cero a dos años de edad, mediante el Bono Madre Niño - Niña “Juana Azurduy” en el marco del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo y las políticas de erradicación de la pobreza extrema. Asimismo, establece el marco institucional y los mecanismos financieros para su entrega.

The Conditional Cash Transfer is financed with resources from:

• General Treasury of the Nation, subject to availability.
• Internal and external grants and credits.
• Transfers from entities and public and private institutions.

 Additionally, the Ministry of Health and Sports may sign co-financing agreements with prefectures and municipal governments.