Afghanistan Sehatmandi Project

The development objective of the Sehatmandi Project for Afghanistan is to increase the utilization and quality of health, nutrition, and family planning services. The project comprises of three components. The first component, improving service delivery will finance performance-based contracts to deliver the basic package of health services (BPHS) and essential package of hospital services (EPHS) in 31 provinces. The second component, strengthening the health system and its performance will support a systematic organized approach aimed at establishing a performance management culture in the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and among stakeholders. The third component, strengthening demand and community accountability for key health services will finance a range of activities from communication campaigns aimed at raising overall awareness of health rights as well as specific health behaviors to support the MOPH and service providers to be more responsive to community health needs.