Indigenous Peoples

Health and Nutrition Sector Development Program (1999)
Indonesia

The program aims to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis on the poor by protecting, promoting, and maintaining essential health and nutrition services that is accessible to the poor households. The project has two components, the policy reform program, and an investment project component. The program component supports a nationwide policy reforms designed to maintain the access of the poor households to basic health services and strengthen decentralized management of health services delivery. The project component provides financial and technical support to the health providers to enable them to maintain quality health services that are accessible to the poor.

The project's assessment of the Culturally Distinct Communities (CDC) [ PDF: 162kb | 2 pages] incorporates measures to address the special concerns of the CDCs. The project takes on a two-pronged approach. One initiative is to help the modern medical personnel become sensitized to the traditional practices of CDCs. The other initiative is to raise CDC's awareness of the benefits of modern nutrition and health practices without disregarding their traditional practices and belief.

Learn more about the project:

• Report and Recommendation of the President [ PDF: 5,951kb | 101 pages]
• Project Profile

Related Link:

• Health and Population Project [ PDF: 793kb | 25 pages]