Strengthening Health System Resilience Project

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The development objectives of Strengthening Health System Resilience Project for St. Vincent and the Grenadines are to (i) increase the Recipient’s scope and quality of hospital services; (ii) strengthen the Recipient’s health system resilience; and (iii) provide immediate and effective response to an eligible emergency. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Development and Launch of a New Acute Care Hospital has the following sub-components: (i) Construction of the new Arnos Vale Acute Care Hospital (AVACH) Acute Care Hospital; and (ii) Equipment, Health Care Waste Management and Transfer of Services for the new AVACH Hospital. 2) The second component, Strengthening Health System Resilience, aims to finance activities for the hospital and at health sector level to strengthen the health system's adaptive capacity, namely (a) technical assistance (TA) and hands-on capacity building, and (b) investments in management information systems and a facility-specific health care waste management strategy to create a safe, resilient, and transparent environment for sustained health service delivery and strengthened hospital performance. 3) The third component, Project Management, Coordination and Evaluation, aims to support capacity building in the areas of contract management, procurement, environment and social safeguards, financial management (FM), and monitoring and evaluation, including project audits. 4) The fourth component, Contingency Emergency Response (CERC), aims to provide funding in the event of an eligible emergency.