Guinea-Bissau Strengthening Maternal and Child Health Service Delivery

The objective of the Strengthening Maternal and Child Health Service Delivery Project for Guinea-Bissau is to improve coverage of essential maternal and child health services. The project has five components. (1) Institutional strengthening of Ministry of Public Health component will support institutional strengthening at the national, regional, and local levels to increase transparency and accountability across the health system. This component will also support analytical work and policy dialogue to facilitate the implementation of key institutional reforms. (2) Health workforce development component aims to address key health workforce shortcomings that limit the country’s capacity to improve service delivery to its population. (3) Performance‐based financing to deliver a package of essential maternal and child health and community health services component will focus on strengthening Primary Health Care service delivery in the entire country. (4) Community health and social mobilization component will support the continuation of the community health strategy in the country and will engage communities to promote health‐seeking behavior, dissemination of information, and monitoring of service providers. The objectives are to improve the demand of key reproductive, maternal and child health services, and to sensitize the population on health promoting and disease preventing behaviors through community based interventions. (5) Contingent emergency response component will allow funds to be quickly reallocated to emergency activities in the event of a natural or man‐made disaster or crisis that has caused, or is likely to imminently cause, a major adverse economic and/or social impact.