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The development objective of the Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Program Project for Côte d’Ivoire is to: (i) reduce maternal mortality and stunting, (ii) improve ECD outcomes, and (iii) improve resilience against future pandemics. The project comprises of five components. The first component, strengthen and expand the social health protection (SHP) system will support the scale-up of the SHP system and strategic purchasing. It consists of following sub-components: (i) operationalize and scale-up the universal health insurance scheme (CMU); and (ii) institutionalize performance-based financing (PBF) and support health financing reforms. The second component, improve quality of health, nutrition, and ECD services consists of following sub-components: (i) improve human resource management; (ii) improve availability of essential medicines and nutritional inputs; (iii) strengthen governance; (iv) improve quality of clinical; radiology; and laboratory services through public-private partnership (PPPs); and (v) equip health facilities and expand wash, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. The third component, strengthen delivery of nutrition, ECD, and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) services consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthen delivery of nutrition and ECD services; (ii) strengthen delivery of RMNCAH-N services; and (iii) demand creation and behavior change. The fourth component, institutional strengthening, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and project management will finance interventions to strengthen the capacity of implementing agencies (Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage (MSHPCMU); (Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (MEPS); Executive Secretariate of the National Council for Nutrition, Food, and Early Childhood Development) (SE-CONNAPE)), including capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate the project interventions and institutional coordination at various levels from the national to the community level. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will utilize uncommitted project resources from other project components to cover the costs of emergency response.
To improve utilization of quality health, nutrition and early years development services, particularly for women, children and poor populations, in target regions.
Key Details
Project Details
Project ID
P179550
Status
Active
Team Leader
Opope Oyaka Tshivuila Matala
Borrower 2
THE REPUBLIC OF CÔTE DIVOIRE
Country
Cote dIvoire
Approval Date
(as of board presentation)
June 30, 2023
Total Project Cost 1
US$ 0.00 million
Implementing Agency
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, National Council for Nutrition, Food and Early Childhood Development
Region
Western and Central Africa
Fiscal Year 3
2023
Commitment Amount
US$ 200.00 million
Environmental and Social Risk
Moderate
Last Update Date
June 12, 2023
Closing Date
June 30, 2028
Consultant Services required
Yes
Last Stage Reached
Bank Approved |
