Institutional Foundations to Improve Services For Health

The objective of the Institutional Foundations to Improve Services for Health Project for Liberia is to improve health service delivery to women, children and adolescents in Liberia. The Project has four components. 1. Improved Service Delivery component will be financed using the traditional Investment Project Financing (IPF) approach and include the following subcomponents: Subcomponent 1.1. Operationalizing new Redemption Hospital Phases 1 and 2 will finance the design, construction and supervision of Phase 2, and the procurement and installation of equipment for both Phases 1 and 2 of the new Redemption Hospital. Subcomponent 1.2. Enhancing human resource skills will ensure the delivery of quality health services at all levels, qualified and skilled personnel. Subcomponent 1.3. Scaling-up the successes of Performance-Based Financing (PBF) will support costs related to the provision of maternal, adolescent, and child services through PBF to select primary health care centers and hospitals. Subcomponent 1.4. Support to the national Community Health Assistant (CHA) Program will finance costs related to the CHA program, with the aim to improve the quality of preventative, promotional and curative Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) services, including Antenatal Care (ANC), Postnatal Care (PNC), and follow-up in the community, and serve as a link between the community and health facilities. Subcomponent 1.5. Support for community and school health interventions to improve access to adolescent health care will finance a basic package of evidence-based interventions at schools and in the community that supports the longer-term objective of contributing to the reduction of teenage pregnancies and maternal mortality. Subcomponent 1.6. Improve availability of essential medicines and RMNCAH products will cover costs related to the procurement of selected essential medicines and supplies, required to save lives of mothers and neonates. 2....