Côte d'Ivoire Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development Program

The development objective of the Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Program Project for Côte d’Ivoire is to: (i) reduce maternal mortality and stunting, (ii) improve ECD outcomes, and (iii) improve resilience against future pandemics. The project comprises of five components. The first component, strengthen and expand the social health protection (SHP) system will support the scale-up of the SHP system and strategic purchasing. It consists of following sub-components: (i) operationalize and scale-up the universal health insurance scheme (CMU); and (ii) institutionalize performance-based financing (PBF) and support health financing reforms. The second component, improve quality of health, nutrition, and ECD services consists of following sub-components: (i) improve human resource management; (ii) improve availability of essential medicines and nutritional inputs; (iii) strengthen governance; (iv) improve quality of clinical; radiology; and laboratory services through public-private partnership (PPPs); and (v) equip health facilities and expand wash, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. The third component, strengthen delivery of nutrition, ECD, and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) services consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthen delivery of nutrition and ECD services; (ii) strengthen delivery of RMNCAH-N services; and (iii) demand creation and behavior change. The fourth component, institutional strengthening, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and project management will finance interventions to strengthen the capacity of implementing agencies (Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage (MSHPCMU); (Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (MEPS); Executive Secretariate of the National Council for Nutrition, Food, and Early Childhood Development) (SE-CONNAPE)), including capacity to plan, implement, and evaluate the project interventions and...