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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $14 million grant to Mongolia to improve the nation’s primary health services.

Signing the agreement were Adrian Ruthenberg, Country Director of ADB's Mongolia Resident Mission, and Ch. Ulaan, Minister of Finance of Mongolia. Ms. B. Batsereeden, Minister of Health of Mongolia, was among the officials in attendance.

The seven-year project is estimated to cost a total of $17.6 million. ADB will fund 80%, with Mongolia funding the balance. The Ministry of Health is the executing agency for the project, which will target two districts in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and five provinces around the country, benefiting nearly 700,000 people, or around 27% of the total population.

“Mongolia is committed to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and has identified development of health-care services as a priority,” said Claude Bodart, ADB East Asia Department health specialist. “This is the third ADB-funded project focused on the health-care sector in the country, and is in line with the government’s Health Sector Master Plan.”

The project, which specifically targets poor or marginalized members of society, has four components that will strengthen primary health care services in both rural and urban areas; develop the sector’s capacity and management; and focus on policy change and reform of the health sector system nationwide, including health financing and insurance, human resources development, and regulation and governance.

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