Health System Support Project (KIRA)

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The development objective of Health System Support Project for Burundi is to increase the use of quality Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health services, and, in the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said Eligible Crisis or Emergency. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Use of Performance-based Payments to Support the Recipient’s Free Health Care (FHC) Program, will pay health providers and other health entities according to their performance. It has the following four subcomponents: (i) Payment of FHC-Results-based Financing (RBF) to health facilities; (ii) Performance Based Payments to community health workers cooperatives; (iii) Performance Based Payments to FHC-RBF claims and administration or verification departments; and (iv) Performance Based Payments to Nursing Schools and Ministry of Public Health and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS (MoH )strategic departments supporting health facilities. 2) The second component, Implementation Support for the FHC program-related activities,will support strategic activities. It has the following three subcomponents: (i) Support to verification and counter verification processes; (ii) Supporting project management; and (iii) Supporting the promotion of demand at community level and social and environmental safeguards activities. 3) The third component, Strengthening of Newly Integrated FHC Program Service Providers through financing of minor investments/renovations works for CHWs and nursing training schools, aims to support concerns nursing training schools and Community Health Workers (CHWs). 4) The fourth component, Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC), will allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused, or is likely to imminently cause, a major adverse economic and or social impact.