The Gambia Essential Health Services Strengthening Project

The objective of the Essential Health Services Strengthening Project for Gambia is to improve quality and utilization of essential health services in Gambia. The Project has three components. 1. Improving the Delivery and Utilization of Quality Essential Primary Health Care (PHC) Services component has three subcomponents. 1.1. Improving the quality of essential PHC services delivery using a Result-based Financing (RBF) approach subcomponent will support the delivery of quality and essential health services at each level of the health care delivery system. 1.2. Community engagement to improve utilization of quality health services subcomponent will scale-up and expand the Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) activities that were highly successful in improving the utilization of health services and health outcomes under the previous project. 1.3. Building resilient and sustainable health systems to support the delivery of quality health services subcomponent will support Ministry of Health (MoH’s) efforts to building resilient and sustainable health systems to support the delivery of quality health services and for strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS). 2. Project Management component will entail financial management (FM) and procurement, monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social risks management compliance and assessment of implementation progress. 3. Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) will enable the rapid reallocation of project proceeds 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.