PH-URBAN HEALTH & NUTRITION

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The project will directly address poverty alleviation through the following objectives: (a) to improve the health and nutrition status of slum-dwellers in the urban areas of Metro-Manila, Metro-Cebu, and Cagayan de Oro; (b) to build the capacity of city and municipal governments in these areas to plan, finance and implement cost-effective slum health and nutrition programs; (c) to help slum communities to identify their own health, nutrition and environmental problems and participate in planning, implementing and monitoring appropriate interventions; and (d) to help the Department of Health develop policies and strategies which will improve the outreach and cost-effectiveness of health and nutrition delivery systems.The project will support the following components: (a) service delivery, to improve the outreach, range, quality and cost-effectiveness of priority health and nutrition services, through improvements in health risk assessment and client targeting system, additions/improvements to health staffing and facilities, and provision of additional equipment, contraceptives, drugs and supplies and food and micro-nutrient supplements; (b) institutional development, to improve the capacity of project local governments to plan, manage, monitor and evaluate their health programs, and of the Department of Health to support local governments, through strengthening management systems and planning and evaluation capacity; training technologies, programs and infrastructure; and communications technologies and programs; (c) community partnerships for health, to support community mobilization and community-based health and nutrition service delivery, through financing grants to strengthen local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to develop community/NGO/local government fora, and to implement joint community/local government/NGO sub-projects in health and nutrition; and (d) policy research and evaluation, to support operations research studies testing alternative service delivery models for key interventions, and studies to evaluate project progress.