Health & Social Protection Project

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The Kyrgyz Republic Health and Social Protection Project aims to improve the health status in the Kyrgyz Republic by improving access, financial protection, efficiency, equity, and fiduciary performance in the Kyrgyz health sector; ensuring sufficient and reliable financing for the health sector; and strengthening the targeting of social benefits by developing effective administration and information management systems. The Project will support implementation of the Manas Taalimi Health Reform Program through a Sector-Wide Approach. The specific objective of the Manas Taalimi Program is, broadly, to improve health status by creating an effective, comprehensive and integrated delivery system of individual and public health services. There are two project components: Component 1, Support for the Manas Taalimi Health Reform Program and its associated Program of Work; and Component 2, strengthening the administrative system o f the Ministry o f Labor and Social Protection, which helps implement policy reforms and strengthens administrative systems to enable social protection and health systems to more effectively target assistance and subsidies to poor or disadvantaged households.