Indonesia Supporting Health Transformation Project (I-SeHat)

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The grant Project supports the Ministry of Health's health transformation agenda that is centered around six key pillars: (i) primary care service delivery capacity, population education, and prevention; (ii) equitable access to secondary care; (iii) health system resilience to prevent and ready for health crises; (iv) health financing, focusing on equitable allocation and efficient utilization of resources; (v) health workforce in production, distribution, and quality; and (vi) improvements in health technology, especially a more integrated and efficient health information system and biotechnology. The Project will enable access to appropriate technical expertise and critical support to analytics, monitoring and evaluation, and technical assistance across all six pillars. This will include focus on primary care and digital transformation, both of which are at the heart of frontline health service delivery and data-driven, evidence-based policymaking which can guide the efficient targeting of resources, transparency and monitoring and evaluation. The funding for the Project will be coming from the RETF component of the Multi Donor Trust Fund on Health Transformation.The grant Project have two components that include:Component 1: Improving coordination of Partner Support (US$ 5.75 million)This component will support activities focusing on the coordination of development partners by strengthening the leadership, coordination and project management in supporting the MOH’s HSTA . This includes:- Support the function of the development partners coordination platform to review MOH’s proposed workplan including analytical work contributing to the policy and research agenda to inform the health system transformation.- Finances the skills and expertise required by MOH for centralized grants and loans management roles across different DP’s support in the form of projects and activities within MOH: Centralized capacity to undertake procurement processes required under international funding, enabling the technical units to focus on their core strengths around design and implementation; this includes supporting the drafting of procurement packages, designing bid documents and Terms of Reference; supporting bid evaluation, contracting and contract management processes, etc.- Expertise in management information systems as well as in data analytics to improve the completeness and quality of data as well as effective use of the data to generate meaningful information that informs design and implementation policy.- Regular monitoring and evaluation of DPs support operations, including the organization of and participation in joint implementation support missions in each semester, with participation from all the partners supporting the Project.Component 2: Improving Integration of Cross-cutting Issues (US$ 5.75 million)This Component is focusing to ensure considerations of gender, people with disabilities, and climate, and their intersectionality are central to the knowledge creation, capacity building, and health sector reforms supported by the Project, striving to reduce barriers towards care for vulnerable groups, adopting an equity lens, and ensuring no-one is left behind. - Overall this Component finances activities to bring in specific areas of expertise that can be utilized in a cross-cutting manner across MOH, including expertise in social and environmental issues, gender, climate change, disability, equity, inclusion, and the like. - Finance the implementation of analytical work contributing to the policy and research agenda to inform the health system transformation that has incorporated at least one of the cross-cutting theme. - Monitoring and evaluation of the integration of cross cutting issues in development partner’s support activities, including the generation of evidence and helping translate such evidence into policy, knowledge management, learning, and capacity building. Both Components will include activities such as (a) recruitment of firms or individuals with expertise in procurement and fiduciary management, and information system and digital health to provide technical advisory services and administrative support; (b) capacity building activities including training and learning exchange; and (c) regular monitoring and evaluation activities including organization and participation in implementation support missions as well as other coordination meetings.