Zimbabwe COVID-19 Response and Essential Health Services Additional Financing

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The proposed additional financing (AF), funded by the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), includes restructuring of the parent project and will support the Government of Zimbabwe to sustain essential health services following the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of the acute economic crisis which threatens to reverse gains made for reproductive, maternal, child,newborn, and adolescent health (RMNCAH). The AF will finance activities under a new component (Component 4: Sustaining Essential Health Services) which will have the following subcomponents - Subcomponent 4.1: Integrated Outreach Service Delivery, Subcomponent 4.2: Strengthening Community Health Services including Disease Surveillance, Subcomponent 4.3: Equipping of maternity theatres and commodity security, Subcomponent 4.4: Revitalization of Maternity Waiting Homes, and Subcomponent 4.5: Health System Digitalization and Related Innovations. The AF will also provide additional resources for Component 3: Overall Response Coordination and Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, which supports the new component.