Malawi Emergency Project to Protect Essential Health Services

The development objective of the Emergency Project to Protect Essential Health Services (EHS) Project for Malawi is to provide emergency support and enable the continued delivery of essential health services in Malawi. The project comprises of five components. The first component, protecting provision of frontline health service delivery will support the government to protect and sustain delivery of EHS. It consists of following sub-components: (i) support to frontline health workers; and (ii) support to frontline health facilities. The second component, provision of essential medicines will support the Ministry of Health (MoH) to address the issue of severe drug and medical supply shortage that Malawi is experiencing. The third component, enhancing the efficiency and accountability of public spending in the health sector will strengthen core institutional systems that relate to efficient service delivery and accountability in the health sector. The fourth component, project management will finance the operational costs of project implementation which will be prioritized around the emergency nature of the response. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component will allow for rapid reallocation of uncommitted funds in the event of an eligible emergency as defined in OP 8.00.