Health and Nutrition Services Access Project

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The development objective of Health and Nutrition Services Access Project for Lao Peoples Democratic Republic is to improve access to quality health and nutrition services in targeted areas of Lao PDR. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Integrating Service Delivery Performance with National Health Insurance Payments, aims to support performance‐based fund transfers to the health center level which are directly proportionate to their quality and performance scorecard (QPS) score and thereby providing them flexible resources to spend on a specified set of operational expenses that will be specified in the project operations manual. 2) The second component, Service Delivery and Nutrition Convergence, will use disbursement‐linked indicator (DLIs) that are prioritized toward the four multisectoral nutrition convergence provinces in northern Lao PDR, focusing on the twelve nutrition convergence districts, and the other DLIs have a nationwide footprint. 3) The third component, Adaptive Learning and Project Management, aims to finance project coordination and management costs as well as some critical activities that will support the implementation of the project. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, aims to allow for rapid reallocation of credit proceeds during an eligible emergency, disaster, or catastrophic event, with implementation guided by the emergency response manual.