Essential Health Services Access Project

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The Essential health Services Access Project of Myanmar has an objective to increase coverage of essential health services of adequate quality, with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health. The project would thus contribute to Myanmar’s move towards UHC. It would also support a prompt and effective response to crises and emergencies. The project consists of three components. The first component strengthening Service Delivery at the Primary Health Care Level, focuses on channeling funds through MOH to the states/regions and townships (the latter in the form of health facility grants) for operational expenses or non-salary recurrent expenditures. MOH has prepared an Operations Manual (OM) for the project, which sets out the details of how such grants would be provided, used and accounted for, as part of the overall implementation arrangements. Component two System Strengthening, Capacity Building, and Project Management Support will focus on the definition and costing of an Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) which GOM would provide to the entire population. It includes training, courses, South-South learning, workshops and Seminars and includes preparatory work for the implementation of Component 1, such as strengthening of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) arrangements, including studies and surveys, and technical assistance for independent verification. Finally component three is a component with a provisional allocation of zero dollars is included under this project in accordance with OP 10, for projects in situations of urgent need of assistance or capacity constraints.