COVID Module Question 16

Do published documents or information about the implementation of the emergency fiscal policy package under consideration include nonfinancial information performance, in particular looking at the impact on poor and vulnerable groups, including women?

Guidelines
This indicator asks whether the published documents or information that cover the implementation of the emergency fiscal policies include nonfinancial information on actual performance, including both inputs and results (outputs or outcomes) for the reporting period, and a comparison between actual performance and original targets set when the emergency fiscal package was introduced. Refer to question 9 for definitions of nonfinancial information.

This question also asks whether published documents or information about the implementation of emergency fiscal policy packages include nonfinancial information on the actual impact of emergency policies on a country’s poor and vulnerable groups, including women.

Finally, the question asks whether these estimates are accompanied by a narrative discussion.

Tick boxes: ''Please check the boxes of the items that appear in the relevant documentation. If none of the items are presented, please check ‘None of the Above’. In the comment box, please provide a detailed citation for each item selected below as described in the assessment directions as well as any additional details.''


 * ☐  Actual performance for inputs
 * ☐  Actual performance for results (outputs or outcomes)
 * ☐  Comparison between actual performance and targets
 * ☐  Impact on poor beneficiaries
 * ☐  Impact on women and girls
 * ☐  Impact on other vulnerable groups (please specify in comments box)
 * ☐  Explanatory narrative
 * ☐  None of the above

1) Should researchers only reference documents produced by the executive?
No. Researchers can use any documents produced by any public entity to answer the questions, at least to start with. We can then, when analyzing the results, decide whether these "count" or not. If you have any questions or concerns regarding a particular document, please bring it to the team.

2) How much disaggregation/ specificity is needed for these questions?
In Saudi Arabia, there is some language that the primary recipients of certain support packages in question are enterprises, certain consumers and sectors, and transport workers, but the specificity does not go much further than that (for example, it mentions specific sectors but not the names of enterprises in such sectors; it mentions transport workers, but not much more specificity than that). This answer suffices.