JFPR 9031: Mobilizing the Poor for Better Access to Health
Pakistan (PAK)
Project Summary
- Women's Health Project (Loan No. 1671 - PAK)
| Total Budget |
: 4,300,000 US$ |
| JFPR grant |
: 3,400,000 US$ |
Ministry of Health and its provincial departments
- Up to 2 NGOs and community-based organizations per district will be contracted
- The Tehsil (subdistrict) hospital of Gambat (Sindh) for the hospital-based referral system
- Independent research institute for the poverty impact assessment, under the guidance of the Poverty Monitoring Cell of the Ministry of Finance
- Independent domestic research institute for the health-monitoring component
The JFPR project will target 6 districts, of which 3 are in Sindh (Badin, Shikapur, and Jacobabad), 2 in Balochistan (Panjgur and Khuzdar) and 1 in North-West Frontier Province.
Overall Objective
Pilot a sustainable approach for reducing causes of poverty and illnesses among marginalized women and children through demand-based strategies.
Project Purpose
- Enhance access of poor people, particularly women, to health services through bottom-up referral systems with the poor.
- Improve nutritional status of marginalized women and children.
Use the experience of the pilot-project for designing future projects involving community-based strategies to improving health and nutrition status of poor women and children which contribute to poverty reduction.
- Referring the Poor to Access Health Services
- Transport for the poor
- Communication for reliable appointments
- Reliable health services of pilot referral hospitals
- Improving Nutrition for Poor Mothers and Children
- Nutrition improvement
- Early childhood learning for poverty reduction
- Monitoring and poverty impact assessment
- Project Management
ADB Contact
Axel Weber
Social Protection Specialist
Social Sectors Division
South Asia Department
Tel: + 632 632 5946
E-mail: aweber@adb.org
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