Liberia - Results based management programme : monitoring and evaluation of health activities in Liberia

The project titled “Results-Based Management – Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Activities in Liberia” will support the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) to address important gaps identified within the health sector, including: (i) insufficient Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) supplies within country; (ii) limited number of staff with requisite training to expand diagnostic capacity; (iii) limited supplies for testing of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) priority diseases; and (iv) limited funding for consistent monitoring and evaluation activities across the country. This is a grant of UA 1,000,000 (USD 1,380,000.00) from the Transition Support Facility (TSF) Pillar III resources to support the Government of Liberia (GoL) strengthen the health sector’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies and other events of public health concern to build a resilience health system. The project comprises activities that are envisaged to strengthen the health sector’s capacity to detect, prevent and respond to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and other occurrences of public health concern. The project has three (3) components; (i) expand public health surveillance system; strengthen public health diagnostic scheme; (iii) define mechanisms for assessing NPHIL’s performance per its strategic plan. The project is proposed to be implemented for a period of 24 months commencing January 2022 and ending December 2023.