📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P172102
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 40.00 million
The proposed Project willbe financed through a proposed IDA grant in the amount of US$40 million and a proposed Global Financing Facility (GFF) grant in the amount of US$10 million.The Project aims to address the challenges facing the health sector by improving quality of reproductive, maternal and child and adolescent healthand nutrition, generating demand for reproductive maternal and child health services, particularly at the community level. 25.The project design will be guided by lessons learned from the past and ongoing projects in Sierra Leone and in the region as well as global knowledge and evidence and will introduce innovative approaches to improving quality health services. First, various cross-cutting areas are designed to be covered by the project. Therefore, multisectoral approach would be promoted in order to maximize the project impacts and create synergy with ongoing and future support in other sectors such as education, social protection and jobs, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), agriculture, energy and transportation. Second, the project would pilot various innovations, including learning good practices and lessons from the Health Service Delivery and Systems Support Project (HSDSSP) and Ebola Emergency Response Project (EERP) projects currently under implementation. Such activities will be carefully monitored to avoid any possible negative effects on the beneficiaries. Third, the project would strengthen citizens’ engagement using bottom-up approach and support capacity building of key stakeholders at all levels. In addition, the project would support government and non-government agencies and academics to form a network for gathering, curation and dissemination of information and knowledge for continuous quality enhancement of theproject.26.The proposed project will have five components, each of which is described in detail below. Component 1: Strengthening Preventive and Curative RMNCAH-N Services; Component 2: Health Systems Strengthening; Component 3: Mainstreaming cross-sectoral collaboration with non-health ministries and stakeholders; Component 4: Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation; and Component 5: Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC). Through these components, the project will prepare the MoHS to test and implement a new performance-based financing/conditions, service delivery model (hubs and spokes), and public private partnership (PPP) to improve quality essential health services, output-based financing approach to strengthen institutional capacity of central MoHS and District Health Management Teams(DHMTs), and a digital health system to improve efficiency of service delivery. The project will also address the emerging chall
