Health Sustainable Development Goals Program-for-Results

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The objective of the Health Millennium Development Goals Program-for-Results Project for Ethiopia is to Improve the delivery and use of a comprehensive package of maternal and child health services. Ethiopia's Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) 2011-2015 has a strong focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and gives high priority to human development. Ethiopia has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes and is among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with a good chance of attaining some of the health MDGs. There is a need to enhance accountability of the health system by shifting the emphasis from inputs to results. Ethiopia has to accelerate the on-going efforts to institutionalize monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems that provide reliable and timely information on program results. This will further strengthen evidence-based planning, particularly at the facility and district levels. In a rapidly evolving health system, credible evidence from diverse sources available on a frequent basis will be essential to increasing accountability and strengthening management. Such shift needs to build on successful engagement of communities through the health extension workers moving toward a functional health system by delivering results.