Sindh Integrated Health and Population Project

The development objective of the Sindh Integrated Health and Population Project for Pakistan is to improve utilization and quality of basic reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health with nutrition (RMNCAH+N), for poor and vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in targeted areas of Sindh. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improving RMNCAH+N services utilization and quality and support during public health emergencies will support an integrated care of RMNCAH+N services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) public health emergency response to combat health impact due to the floods; (ii) strengthening and rehabilitating of health facilities providing preventive care; and (iii) strengthening of referral hospitals for effective delivery and neonatal care. The second component, strengthening demand for RMNCAH+N services, including women’s empowerment for availing health services will cover social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and related activities to encourage uptake of RMNCAH+N services using social marketing strategy and rebranding of government dispensary (GDs) and their services package to create awareness. The third component, project management, monitoring and evaluation and research will support the strengthening of the department of health (DoH) and its coordinating structures and agencies for the coordination and management of project activities, including financial management, procurement, public-private partnership (PPP) node, stakeholder engagement in line with the stakeholder engagement plan, and compliance with the environment and social commitment plan. The fourth component, contingency emergency response component (CERC) will contribute by providing immediate and effective response to said crisis or emergency.