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| Donor |
European Commission |
| Name of Project |
Mindanao Health Sector Policy Support Programme (MHSPSP) |
| Implementing Agency |
Department of Health, World Bank |
| Funding |
Grant |
| Total Funding |
12,050,000 |
| Grant |
12,000,000 |
| GoP Counterpart |
50, 000 (from GOP) |
| Start Date |
15 February 2007 |
| Completion Date |
31 December 2012 |
| Project Location |
Department of Health (including relevant regional Centers for Health Development), ARMM provinces and other conflict-affected areas located in the following areas outside of ARMM (such as: Basilan (Isabela City), Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibuguay, Lanao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat and Compostela Valley)areas located in the following areas outside of ARMM (such as: Basilan (Isabela City), Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibuguay, Lanao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat and Compostela Valley) |
| Beneficiaries |
14 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. The Department of Health launched the FOURmula One for Health (F1-for Health), which became the implementation framework for health sector reforms in the Philippines for the medium term covering 2005-2010. 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.
This new reform strategy explicitly integrates areas of work, which were not captured by the initial Health Sector Reform Agenda (HSRA) concept, such as public expenditure and PFM, human resource management, planning and M&E and public-private partnership. Donors increasingly align their health portfolio with GoPs reform programme, which leads DoH to roll out reform implementation to additional provinces beyond the initial 16 provinces. As part of its roll out strategy, DoH is planning for the implementation of a set of reforms which would be doable in view of the weak institutional context, which characterises Mindanaos conflict-affected areas (CAAs) and ARMM, and the extension of the Sector Development Approach to Health (SDAH) in these areas.
In accordance with the comparative advantage of a grant, the EC funding will explicitly target pro-poor interventions. |
| Project Objective |
Increased utilization of improved priority primary health facilities, through a pre-SDAH accession programme implementing selected, doable elements of government's health sector reform. |
| Project Components |
Main Components are as follows:
Administrative Agreement with the World Bank to operationalise a trust fund arrangement in delivering support to the 15 provinces covered by the programme.
Technical Assistance service contract managed by the Delegation. |
| For further Information Please Contact |
Delegation Philippines:
Rita Bustamante
Rita.Bustamante@ec.europa.eu |
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