Investing and Innovating for Grassroots Health Service Delivery

The development objective of the Investing and Innovating for Grassroots Health Service Delivery Project for Vietnam is to improve the quality and utilization of grassroots health services, with a focus on the commune level, in the project provinces. The project comprises of three components. The first component, upgrading of commune health station (CHS) infrastructure will improve the quality of CHS infrastructure in the project provinces so that the CHSs meet the national standards for CHS infrastructure. The second component, improving the readiness of CHS to manage tracer conditions consists of following sub-components: (i) equipment for tracer conditions; (ii) training for tracer conditions; and (iii) quality scorecards. The third component, creating an enabling policy environment, piloting innovations, evaluation, and project management will support the development and evaluation of relevant policies, regulations, and guidelines related to the management of the tracer conditions as well as broader grassroots health financing and service delivery issues. The component will support the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovative pilots at the grassroots level. The component will finance the incremental costs associated with project management at the central and provincial level.