FAMILY HEALTH

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The project has three main objectives: (a) to improve the health status of the population of the two provinces; (b) to increase the effectiveness of the existing health care network; and (c) to build the institutional capacity to realize these objectives. The project has three main components: (a) strengthening the health services from the village to the district level, focusing on improved maternal health services including family planning and integrating and expanding communicable disease control activities; (b) staff development focusing on improved staff capabilities and performance and increasing the number of female paramedical staff; and (c) management and organizational development focusing on improved management capabilities. The project will finance: construction or expansion of training facilities and limited health facility upgrading; furniture, equipment and transport; training costs; technical assistance; and incremental recurrent costs including medicines. It will be implemented by the provincial governments with technical support from local nongovernmental organizations and universities.