AO-Municipal Health Service Strengthening (Revitalização)

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The objective of the Municipal Health Service Strengthening Project for Angola is to improve the population's access to and quality of maternal and child health care services. There are three components to the project, the first component being improvement of health service delivery. This component will help strengthen the Angola health system in the five targeted provinces through training of health personnel, scaling up of outreach and community health services, strengthening of obstetric care, and improvement of hospital waste management. The second component is the voucher scheme pilot. This component will finance provision by the government of: (i) cash transfers to beneficiaries residing in the municipalities of Negage and Caculama to facilitate access to child delivery services and pre-natal care, all in accordance with the provisions of the voucher scheme manual; and (ii) technical assistance to manage these activities. Finally, the third component is the project management and monitoring and evaluation. This component will have three subcomponents: (a) strengthening program management; (b) strengthening the capacity of the department of planning of the Ministry of Health (MoH); and (c) strengthening of monitoring and evaluation.