CG Rep. Health Sector Services Development

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The development objective of the Health Sector Services Development Project for Government of Congo (GOC) is to support the strengthening of the health system in order to effectively combat the major communicable diseases and improve access to quality services for women, children and other vulnerable groups. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is strengthening leadership capacities in managing a functioning and decentralized health system. This component will strengthen management and leadership capacities at all levels within the government's decentralization program, including monitoring and evaluation. The second component of the project is development and implementation of an efficient and effective system for managing human resources for health (HRH). This component will support establishment of a separate HRH Directorate in the central Ministry with specific HR management functions and the technical capacity to create position descriptions and build a repository o f technical fields and professions employed throughout the health sector as well as design and set up a medium term development plan for HRH. The third component of the project is rehabilitation and equipment of health facilities. This component will support the mapping and priority and nonstandard-setting exercise and assist the GOC, in ensuring rational expenditure of their resources on phased rehabilitation of facilities, with special attention to the primary care level as well as establishing national equipment standards and norms and rational phased procurements plan. The fourth and the final component of the project is improvement of access to a package of quality essential health services (PSE). This component will support provision of a Package of Essential Services (PSE) to all Congolese, strengthen the procurement and efficient management of essential medicines and medical supplies building on the framework already established by the European Union (EU) under Project for the Support of Health System in Congo Brazzaville (PASCOB), empower communities in their roles as co-managers of health services addressing harmful traditional and social practices through communication for behavior change (BCC) and promote equitable access to quality health services for all.