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| Donor |
European Commission |
| Name of Project |
Health Sector Policy Support Programme (HSPSP) |
| Implementing Agency |
Department of Health, World Bank |
| Funding |
Grant |
| Total Funding |
49,600,000 |
| Grant |
41,300,000 |
| GoP Counterpart |
8, 300, 000 (from GOP) |
| Start Date |
01 January 2006 |
| Completion Date |
31 December 2011 |
| Project Location |
Department of Health (including relevant regional Centers for Health Development and BFAD), Department of Budget and Management, 16 provinces (Ifugao, Mountain Province, Ilocos Norte, Nueva Vizcaya, Pangasinan, Oriental Mindoro, Romblon, Agusan del Sur, North Cotabato, South Cotabato Misamis Occidental, Biliran, Capiz, Eastern Samar, Southern Leyte, and Negros Oriental) |
| Beneficiaries |
DoH, DBM, 16 Provinces |
| Sector |
Health |
| Project Background/Rationale |
Progress in health status has slowed down during the 1990s leaving the country behind neighbouring countries. There is progress in child health, but major issues such as maternal mortality, which is still far above that of comparable countries (eight times that of Malaysia, at 172 per 100,000 live births), need to be addressed. This situation can in part be attributed to the overall inequity and inefficiency of the Philippines health system in terms of both financing and service delivery arrangements, partly resulting from the devolution of responsibilities for health care provision to local governments brought about by the Local Government Code. The challenge is to improve access to quality health care services in a fully decentralised environment.
The Government of the Philippines intends to address the above issues through sectoral reforms. Recently, the Department of Health launched the FOURmula One for Health (F1-for Health), which succeeded to the Health Sector Reform Agenda. F1-for-Health aims at attaining better outcomes, more responsive health systems and equitable health care financing through action on four areas:
Financing: increased, better and sustained investments in health.
Regulation: better quality and cheaper health products.
Service delivery: enhanced accessibility and availability of health care.
Governance: enhanced health systems performance, in particular through improved PFM and sector-wide management.
While not attempting to address the whole of the health sector reform, the EC HSPSP is designed to address key reform targets in the above areas. In concert with the DoH and development partners EC has highlighted targets to which they can add value and which are conducive to grant funding.
In accordance with the comparative advantage of a grant, the EC funding will explicitly target pro-poor interventions. |
| Project Objective |
Increased utilization of affordable and financially sustainable, quality essential health services and population programs by the poor through the progressive implementation of the governments Health Sector Reform Agenda. |
| Project Components |
Main Components are as follows:
- Budgetary support to Provinces demonstrating good compliance with the Philippines Public Finance Management legislation.
- Budgetary support to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
- Administrative Agreement with the World Bank for a multi-donor trust fund delivering support to the Department of Health (DoH) and provinces not eligible to budgetary support.
- Technical Assistance service contract managed by the Delegation.
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| For further Information Please Contact |
Delegation Philippines:
Email:
Rita Bustamante
Rita.Bustamante@ec.europa.eu |
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