Togo Essential Quality Health Services For Universal Health Coverage Project

The development objective of the Essential Quality Health Services for Universal Health Coverage Project for Togo is to improve the provision of essential health and nutrition services and quality of care for pregnant women, children and vulnerable populations. The project comprises of five components. The first component, increasing demand and supply of quality health and nutrition services focuses on providing opportunities for government to deliver services and improve access to the most vulnerable populations. It consists of following sub-components: (i) increasing access to essential health and nutrition services; (ii) increasing membership of the poor and vulnerable in health insurance; (iii) improving equitable distribution of health professionals; and (iv) increasing tracer drug availability at peripheral health unit (PHU) facilities. The second component is bringing health facilities and services close to households. It consists of following sub-components: (i) increasing access of vulnerable populations to health facilities and services; and (ii) providing equipment to the newly built health facilities. The third component is strengthening the national social health insurance scheme. It consists of following sub-components: (i) establishing and supporting the operations of the Togo Social Health Insurance Agency (TSHIA); and (ii) promoting demand for health insurance services. The fourth component is improving stewardship, oversight, and management. It consists of following sub-components: (i) assuring the social, environmental safeguards of the project; and (ii) providing project management and coordination. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will allow the government to request the World Bank for rapid reallocation of project funds and respond promptly and effectively to an eligible emergency or crisis that is a natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused, or is likely to imminently cause, a major adverse...