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Institutional Capacity Building in planning, leadership and management in the Ugandan health sector - ICB phase II

The project should further support capacity building in leadership, planning, management and procurement. It should focus on strengthening as well as reforming – supporting the development of a regional operational structure of the Ministry of Health. The project should further support capacity building in leadership, planning, management and procurement. It should focus on strengthening as well as reforming – supporting the development of a regional operational structure of the Ministry of Health.

R1. The quality of care at hospital and HC IV is strengthened. R2. District health offices and management teams are strengthened in their capacity to manage an integrated district health system and to strengthen quality of care. R3. Integrated regional network of health facilities is in place. R4. The normative role of the MoH is strengthened. To further improve effective delivery of an integrated Uganda Minimum Health Care Package The planning, leadership and management capacities of (public) health staff – particularly at local government level- are strengthened

MoH is the first beneficiary of this project, not in financial terms but because this intervention will contribute to the realization of its public health mandate to assure that the population of Uganda has geographical and financial access to quality health care. It is the MoH that is in charge of the intervention. MoH will very concretely be strengthened by: • A coverage plan tool that will increase the coverage of most of the preventive services in the first place (outreach regulation) and a significantly higher efficiency of the system through a health care system with less overlap in services and a more optimal investment in infrastructures and HR. This tool will be of application for the whole country in the years to come. • An alternative model of financing the services tested in the field that can be expanded nation-wide if proven positive in the Ugandan political context. • An improved network of functioning health facilities liaised by a functional referral system The most important beneficiary of the project in terms of financial resources and increased capacity are the public health facilities and institutions though. The financial and technical support will be invested at their level in the first place. Special mention should be made for the personnel of the public facilities in the intervention regions, particularly those in rural areas. They will be motivated through the RBF mechanisms but more importantly by the fact that the project will contribute to lower their physical and intellectual isolation and by decentralizing means and decision power to their level. The indirect beneficiaries of this intervention are the rural population and specifically the poorest and most vulnerable. Services will be organized close to their homes (rural health centres and hospitals) in a more affordable manner. Although public health care is free of charge in Uganda, out of pocket payment and other barriers for using the services remain important. Maternal and child care will be discriminated positively because they can be considered as generally most vulnerable in society, especially concerning health. The population of Western Nile and Rwenzori is estimated at roughly 5,250 million people.

Project ID

BE-10-3017447

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Directorate-general Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

Implementing

BTC - Belgian Technical Cooperation - BTC

CRS code	%
Medical education/training (12181)	100.0