Programme d’Action National de Lutte Contre la Desertification

Depuis son indépendance en 1975, le Cap Vert est résolument engagé dans la lutte contre la désertification et les effets de la sécheresse. Plus de 32.000.000 arbres ont été plantés au cours des vingt dernières années pour protéger le sol de l'érosion et reconstituer un espace forestier pratiquement anéanti par cinq siècles d'occupation humaine. Des milliers de kilomètres de murettes et de banquettes, des milliers de digues de correction torrentielle et d'ouvrages hydrauliques ont été construits sur l'ensemble de l'archipel. Les aménagements anti-érosifs ont été mis en place sur plus de 43 % des terres occupées par les cultures pluviales, soit plus de 16.000 hectares. Cet immense effort déployé par les Capverdiens pour lutter contre la dégradation de leurs ressources naturelles et l'appauvrissement des populations qui en dépendent, tire ses motivations historiques des sécheresses désastreuses qui ont secoué le pays au fil des années, jusqu'à celle de 1947 - 49 qui a provoqué des milliers de morts. Ce Programme d'Action National (PAN) s'inscrit dans la continuité de ces efforts. Il est le fruit d'une réflexion conjointe de l'ensemble des acteurs concernés par le problème de la désertification. Il repose à la fois sur le bilan des actions menées jusqu'à ce jour par les différents intervenants, et sur une consultation massive, menée sur l'ensemble du pays, des populations touchées par la désertification et les effets de la sécheresse. Il ne prétend pas innover dans le domaine des techniques de lutte, ni remettre en question le rôle des différents acteurs engagés dans cette lutte. Il vise simplement à une meilleure coordination des efforts et à une plus large participation de la population. Conscientes des problèmes posés par l'interaction de l'homme et de l'environnement sur l'ensemble de la planète, les nations du monde se sont réunies à Rio de Janeiro au mois de juin 1992 lors de la Conférence Mondiale de L’Environnement. Cette conférence organisée par les Nations Unies visait à rapprocher les pays en voie de développement et les pays industrialisés pour garantir l'avenir de la planète terre. Trois conventions internationales fixant des accords de partenariat et des modalités concrètes de mise en oeuvre sont issues de cette rencontre. Il s'agit de: - La Convention sur la Diversité Biologique; - La Convention sur les Changements Climatiques; - Et enfin la Convention de Lutte Contre la Désertification dans les pays gravement touchés par la sécheresse et/ou la désertification, en particulier en Afrique, qui fut adoptée à Paris le 17 juin 1994, et ouverte à la signature en octobre de la même année. Parmi la centaine de signataires de la convention, la République du Cap-Vert fut le deuxième signataire au monde et le premier pays en Afrique. La Convention de Lutte Contre la Désertification (CCD) repose sur quatre grands principes: a) "Les décisions concernant la conception et l'exécution des programmes de lutte contre la désertification doivent être prises avec la participation des populations et des collectivités locales, et un environnement porteur doit être créé aux échelons supérieurs pour faciliter l'action aux niveaux national et local"; b) La nécessité "d'améliorer, dans un esprit de solidarité et de partenariat internationaux, la coopération et la coordination au niveau sous-régional, régional et international, et de concentrer les ressources financières, humaines, organisationnelles, et techniques là où elles sont nécessaires"; c) La nécessité "d'instituer une coopération entre les pouvoirs publics à tous les niveaux, les collectivités, les organisations non gouvernementales et les exploitants des terres pour mieux faire comprendre, dans les zones touchées, la nature et la valeur de la terre et des rares ressources en eau, et pour promouvoir une utilisation durable de ces ressources"; d) Enfin, "la prise en considération de la situation et des besoins particuliers des pays en voie de développement, tout spécialement les moins avancés d'entre eux". Afin de mettre en oeuvre les résolutions de la convention, il a été demandé à chaque pays signataire d'élaborer un Programme d'Action National, pour en faire l'élément central de sa stratégie en matière de LCD. Le Comité Inter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse au Sahel (CILSS), qui regroupe neuf pays dont la République du Cap-Vert, a été désigné pour appuyer et pour coordonner au niveau sous-régional la mise en oeuvre de la convention. Au niveau national, le Secrétariat Exécutif pour l'Environnement (SEPA) a été désigné pour assurer la coordination de la mise en oeuvre du PAN. Dans cette tâche, le SEPA compte déjà avec l’appui du Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD/UNSO) et de la Coopération Française - chef de file des bailleurs de fonds pour la mise en oeuvre de la CCD au Cap-Vert. L’élaboration du PAN a été un processus relativement long qui a commencé par la réalisation du Premier Forum National en novembre 1995. Ce Forum a permis, entre autres, d’informer les différents partenaires sur la CCD. Par la suite, le Secrétariat Exécutif pour l’Environnement avec l’aide du projet “Appui à la Mise en Oeuvre de la CCD”, a réalisé des tournées d’information et de discussions dans toutes les 17 municipalités qui composent le Pays. Ces tournées ont permis de dialoguer et d’engager effectivement le processus de décentralisation dans l’élaboration du PAN. Il a été convenu que chaque commune doit élaborer un Programme Municipal de Lutte Contre la Désertification. Une formation en approche participative (Méthode accélérée de recherche participative) a été organisée à l’attention des représentants des communes. Cela a permis aux municipalités de réaliser un diagnostic participatif au niveau des communautés. Des Commissions Municipales pour l’Environnement ont été créées pour la mise en oeuvre de la CCD. Ces Commissions sont formées par les représentants des services publics, des ONG, des associations paysannes et des confessions religieuses. Chaque Municipalité a réalisé un diagnostic participatif et élaboré un rapport qui décrit la situation socio économique des différentes zones et les propositions des communautés pour lutter contre la désertification. Sur la base des diagnostics participatifs et avec l’appui du SEPA, les différentes municipalités ont élaboré leurs propres programmes. Ces programmes ont été validés au cours d’ateliers municipaux avec la participation de tous les partenaires concernés. Le PAN comporte 190 projets municipaux présentés sous forme de fiches de projets dans le volume annexe, auxquels s’ajoutent 5 projets nationaux. Ces derniers ont été définis, d’une part pour répondre à des problèmes et préoccupations manifestées au niveau municipal, mais dont les solutions ont un caractère national et d’autre part pour créer la complémentarité nécessaire avec les autres Programmes Nationaux. Parmi les objectifs majeurs que le Cap-Vert s'est fixé dans son 4ème Plan National de Développement, figurent des objectifs économiques comme la valorisation des ressources naturelles, et des objectifs sociaux, comme la lutte contre la pauvreté et le sous-emploi, la sécurité alimentaire, la protection de l'environnement, et la couverture des besoins essentiels de la population. Tous ces objectifs rentrent dans le champ d'action du PAN, qui contribue donc largement à l'objectif principal du 4ème Plan, à savoir l'intégration dynamique du Cap-Vert dans l'économie mondiale.

B-1 Monthly Report of Medical Services Provided under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, October 2008.

B-1 Medicaid Reports -- The monthly Medicaid series of eight reports provide summaries of Medicaid eligibles, recipients served, and total payments by county, category of service, and aid category. These reports may also be known as the B-1 Reports. These reports are each available as a PDF for printing or as a CSV file for data analysis. Report Report name IAMM1800-R001--Medically Needy by County - No Spenddown and With Spenddown; IAMM1800-R002--Total Medically Needy, All Other Medicaid, and Grand Total by County; IAMM2200-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM2200-R003--Fiscal YTD Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM3800-R001--ICF & ICF-MR Vendor Payments by County; IAMM4400-R001--Monthly Expenditures by Eligibility Program; IAMM4400-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service by Program; IAMM4600-R002--Elderly Waiver Summary by County.

Parental altruism under imperfect information: Theory and evidence

Can we reconcile the predictions of the altruism model of the familywith the evidence on intervivos transfers in the US? This paper expandsthe altruism model by introducing e ?ort of the child and by relaxingthe assumption of perfect information of the parent about the labormarket opportunities of the child. First, I solve and simulate a modelof altruism under imperfect information. Second, I use cross-sectionaldata to test a prediction of the model: Are parental transfers especiallyresponsive to the income variations of children who are very attached tothe labor market? The results suggest that imperfect information accountsfor several patterns of intergenerational transfers in the US.

B-1 Monthly Report of Medical Services Provided under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, November 2008.

B-1 Medicaid Reports -- The monthly Medicaid series of eight reports provide summaries of Medicaid eligibles, recipients served, and total payments by county, category of service, and aid category. These reports may also be known as the B-1 Reports. These reports are each available as a PDF for printing or as a CSV file for data analysis. Report Report name IAMM1800-R001--Medically Needy by County - No Spenddown and With Spenddown; IAMM1800-R002--Total Medically Needy, All Other Medicaid, and Grand Total by County; IAMM2200-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM2200-R003--Fiscal YTD Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM3800-R001--ICF & ICF-MR Vendor Payments by County; IAMM4400-R001--Monthly Expenditures by Eligibility Program; IAMM4400-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service by Program; IAMM4600-R002--Elderly Waiver Summary by County.

Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post Offices of Iowa, by David C. Mott, Annals of Iowa, 1930-1932.

A compilation of the six sections of David C. Mott's "Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post Offices of Iowa", that was published in the Annals of Iowa: V.17, #6 ,10/1930, pp. 435-465; V.17, #7 ,1/1931, pp. 513-543; V.17, #8 ,4/1931, pp. 578-599; V.18, #1 ,7/1931, pp. 42-69; V.18, #2 ,10/1931, pp. 117-148; V.18, #3 ,1/1932, pp. 189-220. (NOTE: this is a large file and may take a while to download.)

Electronic Payments for Driver's Licensing Transactions,December 31, 2008

House File 2196 required the Department of Transportation (DOT) to study the acceptance of electronic payments at its customer service sites and sites operated by county treasurers. Specifically the legislation requires the following: “The department of transportation shall review the current methods the department employs for the collection of fees and other revenues at sites operated by county treasurers under chapter 321M and at customer service sites operated by the department. In conducting its review, the department, in cooperation with the treasurer of state, shall consider providing an electronic payment option for all of its customers. The department shall report its findings and recommendations by December 31, 2008, to the senate and house standing committees on transportation regarding the advantages and disadvantages of implementing one or more electronic payment systems.” This review focused on estimating the costs of providing an electronic payment option for customers of the DOT driver’s license stations and those of the 81 county treasurers. Customers at these sites engage in three primary financial transactions for which acceptance of electronic payments was studied: paying for a driver’s license (DL), paying for a non-operator identification card (ID), and paying certain civil penalties. Both consumer credit cards and PIN-based debit cards were reviewed as electronic payment options. It was assumed that most transactions would be made using a consumer credit card. Credit card companies charge a fee for each transaction for which they are used. The amount of these fees varies among credit card companies. The estimates for credit card fees used in this study were based on the State Treasurer of Iowa’s current credit card contract, which is due to expire in September 2009. Since credit card companies adjust their fees each year, estimates were based on the 2008 fee schedule. There is also a fee for the use of PIN-based debit cards. The estimates for PIN-based debit card transactions were based on information provided by Wells Fargo Merchant Services for current fees charged by debit card networks. Credit and debit card transactions would be processed through vendor-provided hardware and software. The costs would be determined through the competitive bidding process since several vendors provide this function; therefore, these costs are not reflected in this document.

B-1 Monthly Report of Medical Services Provided under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, December 2008.

B-1 Medicaid Reports -- The monthly Medicaid series of eight reports provide summaries of Medicaid eligibles, recipients served, and total payments by county, category of service, and aid category. These reports may also be known as the B-1 Reports. These reports are each available as a PDF for printing or as a CSV file for data analysis. Report Report name IAMM1800-R001--Medically Needy by County - No Spenddown and With Spenddown; IAMM1800-R002--Total Medically Needy, All Other Medicaid, and Grand Total by County; IAMM2200-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM2200-R003--Fiscal YTD Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM3800-R001--ICF & ICF-MR Vendor Payments by County; IAMM4400-R001--Monthly Expenditures by Eligibility Program; IAMM4400-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service by Program; IAMM4600-R002--Elderly Waiver Summary by County.

The marginal propensity to spend on adult children

We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources willultimately be passed on to adult children in the form of inter vivostransfers and bequests. We infer bequests from the stock of wealth late inlife. We use mortality rates and age specific estimates of the response oftransfers and wealth to permanent income to compute the expected presentdiscounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimatesimply parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of an extra dollar ofexpected lifetime resources in bequests and about 2 cents in transfers.The estimates increase with parental income and are smaller for nonwhites.They imply that about 15 percent of the effect of parental income onlifetime resources of adult children is through transfers and bequestsand about 85 percent is through the intergenerational correlation inearnings, although these estimates are sensitive to assumptions about theintergenerational earnings correlation, taxes, and the number of children.We compare our estimates to the implications of alternative computablebenchmark models of savings behavior in order to assess the likelyimportance of intended bequests for the wealth/income relationship.

Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council Final Report 2008.

On April 27, 2007, Iowa Governor Chet Culver signed Senate File 485, a bill related to greenhouse gas emissions. Part of this bill created the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council (ICCAC), which consists of 23 governor-appointed members from various stakeholder groups, and 4 nonvoting, ex officio members from the General Assembly. ICCAC’s immediate responsibilities included submitting a proposal to the Governor and General Assembly that addresses policies, cost-effective strategies, and multiple scenarios designed to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions. Further, a preliminary report was submitted in January 2008, with a final proposal submitted in December 2008. In the Final Report, the Council presents two scenarios designed to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and 90% from a 2005 baseline by the year 2050. For the 50% reduction by 2050, the Council recommends approximately a 1% reduction by 2012 and an 11% reduction by 2020. For the 90% reduction scenario, the Council recommends a 3% reduction by 2012 and a 22% reduction 2020. These interim targets were based on a simple extrapolation assuming a linear rate of reduction between now and 2050. In providing these scenarios for your consideration, ICCAC approved 56 policy options from a large number of possibilities. There are more than enough options to reach the interim and final emission targets in both the 50% and 90% reduction scenarios. Direct costs and cost savings of these policy options were also evaluated with the help of The Center for Climate Strategies, who facilitated the process and provided technical assistance throughout the entire process, and who developed the Iowa Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Forecast in close consultation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and many Council and Sub-Committee members. About half of the policy options presented in this report will not only reduce GHG emissions but are highly cost-effective and will save Iowans money. Still other options may require significant investment but will create jobs, stimulate energy independence, and advance future regional or federal GHG programs.

FY08 Biodiesel Fuel Revolving Fund Expenditures Report

The Seventy-ninth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, 2001 Regular Session, passed Senate File 465 which was signed by the Governor on April 19, 2001. This act created the biodiesel fuel revolving fund (Fund) to be used to purchase biodiesel fuel for use in the Department of Transportation's (DOT) vehicles. The act directed that the Fund receive money from the sale of EPA credits banked by the DOT on the effective date of the act, moneys appropriated by the General Assembly, and any other moneys obtained or accepted by the DOT for deposit in the Fund. The act also directed the DOT to submit an annual report not later than January 31 of the expenditures made from the Fund during the preceding fiscal year. This is the seventh annual report under the act.

B-1 Monthly Report of Medical Services Provided under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, January 2009.

B-1 Medicaid Reports -- The monthly Medicaid series of eight reports provide summaries of Medicaid eligibles, recipients served, and total payments by county, category of service, and aid category. These reports may also be known as the B-1 Reports. These reports are each available as a PDF for printing or as a CSV file for data analysis. Report Report name IAMM1800-R001--Medically Needy by County - No Spenddown and With Spenddown; IAMM1800-R002--Total Medically Needy, All Other Medicaid, and Grand Total by County; IAMM2200-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM2200-R003--Fiscal YTD Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM3800-R001--ICF & ICF-MR Vendor Payments by County; IAMM4400-R001--Monthly Expenditures by Eligibility Program; IAMM4400-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service by Program; IAMM4600-R002--Elderly Waiver Summary by County.

Currently Registered Flex Fuel Vehicles as of Jan. 27, 2009

House File 2754 requires by Feb. 1 of each year the Iowa Department of Transportation shall deliver a report to the governor and legislative services agency regarding flexible fuel vehicles registered in Iowa. This report reflects the flexible fuel vehicles registered in Iowa as of Jan. 27, 2009.

B-1 Monthly Report of Medical Services Provided under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, February 2009.

B-1 Medicaid Reports -- The monthly Medicaid series of eight reports provide summaries of Medicaid eligibles, recipients served, and total payments by county, category of service, and aid category. These reports may also be known as the B-1 Reports. These reports are each available as a PDF for printing or as a CSV file for data analysis. Report Report name IAMM1800-R001--Medically Needy by County - No Spenddown and With Spenddown; IAMM1800-R002--Total Medically Needy, All Other Medicaid, and Grand Total by County; IAMM2200-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM2200-R003--Fiscal YTD Expenditures by Category of Service; IAMM3800-R001--ICF & ICF-MR Vendor Payments by County; IAMM4400-R001--Monthly Expenditures by Eligibility Program; IAMM4400-R002--Monthly Expenditures by Category of Service by Program; IAMM4600-R002--Elderly Waiver Summary by County.

Parental altruism under imperfect information: Theory and evidence

Can we reconcile the predictions of the altruism model of the family withthe evidence on parental monetary transfers in the US? This paper providesa new assessment of this question. I expand the altruism model by introducingeffort of the child and by relaxing the assumption of perfect informationof the parent about the labor market opportunities of the child. First,I solve and simulate a model of altruism and labor supply under imperfectinformation. Second, I use cross-sectional data to test the following prediction of the model: Are parental transfers especially responsive tothe income variations of children who are very attached to the labor market? The results of the analysis suggest that imperfect informationaccounts for many of the patterns of intergenerational transfers in theUS.