Each record describes something a country built that the indicators do not capture. The source provides the published number; the mechanism is our interpretation.
Scores describe outcomes. These records describe how a country acted, what it needed and what happened. 863 of 863 records include a mechanism. They do not affect scores.
Botswana's health authorities reported to WHO that 1,951,054 people, 83 per 100 population, had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by 31 December 2023, from a first dose given on 26 March 2021, with 1,663,490 (71 per 100) completing the primary series.
Botswana's health ministry ran a national COVID-19 campaign through its clinics and mass vaccination sites and reached over four in five residents with a first dose.
Preconditions
A routine immunisation programme with a cold chain beyond the capital
A supply of doses large enough for a national campaign, however obtained
Registers good enough to count who received a second dose
Where else it has been used: Bolivia (bol-covid-vaccination) and Venezuela (ven-covid-vaccination) are filed on the same terms.
Limits: The figures are Botswana's own reports to WHO (DATA_SOURCE 'REPORTING'), with no independent coverage survey behind them, read from one row of a CSV with no prose. First-dose reach was 83 per 100 and completion 71 per 100, among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, which partly reflects a small population and a strong primary health system rather than a crisis-specific capability. Booster or additional doses reached 510,809 people, 22 per 100. The VACCINES_USED field is empty, so the record cannot show which products were used or where the doses came from, and it evidences distribution only. The per-100 rates divide by WHO's population estimate. Vaccination is a response to one shock, not proof of preparedness for cyclones, floods or droughts, and the brief for this column prefers a hazard-specific delivery; this is filed because none with an official figure was found in the time available. The cited URL is the blob the WHO dashboard serves, as in bol-covid-vaccination.
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Botswana's government seeded a COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund with P2 billion in 2020 and paid from it a wage subsidy of 50 percent of basic salary for employees of affected businesses, administered by the Botswana Unified Revenue Service, spending P807.3 million on the subsidy for April to June 2020.
The Finance Ministry created a dedicated relief fund by order, seeded it from the budget, and handed the wage subsidy to the revenue authority, which paid employers against its own taxpayer register and rejected firms that had retrenched staff.
Preconditions
A revenue service with a register of tax-compliant employers and their employees
Fiscal buffers able to absorb a P2 billion seed contribution as diamond revenue fell
A Public Accounts Committee and Parliament asking for disbursement figures within months
Where else it has been used: Revenue-authority-run wage subsidies were common in 2020; Botswana's version was capped per worker and limited to affected businesses, which narrowed coverage relative to payroll-wide schemes such as Singapore's.
Limits: Both numbers are government officials describing their own programme, reported by the state news agency; there is no audit or BURS outturn table behind them. The P807,277,570.45 is the permanent secretary's figure to the Public Accounts Committee, described as the budget 'used for wage subsidy from April to June'; the minister told Parliament on 3 September 2020 that 'more than P800 million' had gone to the subsidy (dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/58271). The 165,000 workers and the more than 12,000 businesses paid P172 million, 74 percent of the funds requested, come from a separate Daily News item of 2 May 2020 (dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/55951) quoting the acting BURS commissioner general, who also reported pending claims from bad banking details, employees appearing in more than one company, and possible fraud. Neither page gives a final count of workers or the date the scheme was decided, so speed is shown only by payments within about a month. The subsidy was capped at P1,000 to P2,500 per worker per month, and BURS said on 8 May 2020 that the government could not dictate how much employers paid their employees (dailynews.gov.bw/news-detail/56050), so the record does not show how much reached workers. The fund was mostly the government's own P2 billion seed money, drawn when mineral revenue collapsed and the deficit widened.
Botswana Power Corporation built the 600 MW Morupule B coal power station under an EPC contract appraised in 2009, taking the plant over with known defects on 4 May 2014 against a target of 31 December 2013, after which it ran at a capacity factor of 52 percent from April 2015 to January 2016 against the 80 percent projected at appraisal.
The state utility bought a large coal plant on a turnkey contract from a lowest-cost bidder, accepted it with a punch list of defects to meet a power shortfall, and then imported power and ran diesel units while the defects were chased.
Preconditions
Owner's engineering capacity to verify design and construction quality under an EPC contract
Contract terms that let the owner refuse takeover of a defective plant
A grid with enough backup supply to wait for a plant to be fixed
Limits: The World Bank's completion report rated outcome, Bank and borrower performance all Unsatisfactory. The 52 percent is the measured gross capacity factor for the whole plant in Table 2 for April 2015 to January 2016 (54 percent for April 2014 to March 2015); Table 1 gives about 38 percent from grid connection to March 2014, and paras. 91 and 96 describe availability 'hovering around 50 percent'. On cost the project did not overrun: the power-station, transmission and water component came to US$1,188.6 million against an appraisal estimate of US$1,539.6 million (Annex 1), so the failure is in schedule and performance, not budget. The report attributes the defects mainly to the Chinese EPC contractor's design and construction quality, with some operation and maintenance issues, and records three site fatalities; the plant was financed largely by an ICBC loan with a World Bank guarantee. The report does not cover the plant after 2016, so whether it later reached its design output is not shown. 'Operating' is used because the plant generates; the record documents a delivery that never reached its design performance rather than one that eroded from a peak.