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The Asian Development Bank has approved an $840,000 technical assistance grant to Indonesia to improve the quality of its reproductive health care
The technical assistance will assist the government in strengthening reproductive health care services and information, and education and communications in four priority areas in the country. These include safe motherhood through the detection and treatment of malnutrition in mothers; the quality of reproductive health care services; informed family reproductive health behavior; and the prevention and control of reproductive tract infection, sexually transmitted diseases, and human immunodeficiency virus.
The technical assistance will be carried out in three phases over 12 months: Phase I will review the reproductive health care action plan of the Ministry of Health and the National Family Planning Coordinating Board and prepare detailed operations research and program monitoring plans. Phase II will involve operations research, training needs assessment and the preparation of discussion papers. Phase III will include a workshop for the presentation of specific recommendations, a program of action and the preparation of a final report.
A domestic consulting firm will be recruited to provide a team of six consultants to carry out the technical assistance. An individual international reproductive health care expert will be selected to work as technical advisor to the consulting team. The consultants will be hired in accordance with the Bank's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants.
The Ministry of Health will be the executing agency for the technical assistance.