Mongolia : Fourth Health Sector Development Project: Improving Sector Governance
The PPTA is needed to (i) reach consensus among stakeholders on a project to tackle sensitive issues such as hospital sector reform, (ii) gather and update available information on the situation of the hospital sector and in the area of food and drug safety, (iii) bring in international best practices to improve project design, and (iv) carry out generic analyses to prepare for the RRP.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Bodart, Claude
East Asia Department
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Sector
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| Project Name | Fourth Health Sector Development Project: Improving Sector Governance | ||||
| Project Number | 41243-022 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Mongolia |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Inclusive economic growth |
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| Drivers of Change | Gender Equity and Mainstreaming Governance and capacity development |
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| Sector / Subsector | Health / Health sector development and reform |
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| Gender | Effective gender mainstreaming | ||||
| Description | The PPTA is needed to (i) reach consensus among stakeholders on a project to tackle sensitive issues such as hospital sector reform, (ii) gather and update available information on the situation of the hospital sector and in the area of food and drug safety, (iii) bring in international best practices to improve project design, and (iv) carry out generic analyses to prepare for the RRP. | ||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | The Project will build on previous health sector development initiatives to continue (i) reforming the Mongolian health sector in the line with the National Development Strategy and the Government's Health Sector Master Plan (2006 2015) and its Implementation Framework (2006 2010). |
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| Impact | Improved health sector efficiency and safety through optimization of the hospital sector and access to safer food and medicines. |
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| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | An agreed upon project design of the Fourth Health Sector Development Project suitable for ADB financing. |
| Progress Toward Outcome | Fourth Health Sector Development Project was approved by ADB Board in November 2010. |
| Implementation Progress | |
| Description of Project Outputs | 1. Detailed analysis of the hospital sector in Mongolia, especially focused in Ulaanbaatar, and a project component to rationalize and optimize service delivery and financing of secondary and tertiary care facilities, including hospital and investment plans. 2. Detailed analysis of the food and drug safety situation in Mongolia and a project component to address the weaknesses of the current legal, regulatory, institutional, human resources and funding of the sector. 3. Analysis of the constraints to provide safe water and sanitation, proper waste disposal, and efficient heating systems for health facilities in urban and rural settings, and a project component to propose innovative approaches, including an investment plan, to address the constraints. 4. Analysis to the constraints to public sector finance management and allocation, transparency and accountability of health sector operations, improved aid coordination, and a project component to improve governance of the health sector by addressing these constraints. 5. A project design (including rationale, components, financing and investment plan implementation arrangements a description of benefits and impacts and economic and financial analysis detailed project costing a gender analysis and plan an environmental examination a poverty and social analysis and a financial management and procurement capacity assessment of the EA). |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | All the work under the PPTA has been completed. The Consultant's Final Statement of Eligible Costs has been submitted to COSO for processing and issuance of the final variation. The FSEC has been approved. However, required documentation for withheld claim is still still pending from the consultant. |
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| Environment | C |
| Involuntary Resettlement | C |
| Indigenous Peoples | C |
| Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects | |
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| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
| During Project Design | The Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Health were consulted extensively about the Project and these ministries are supportive of the PPTA and the ensuing Project. International development partners in the health sector (including NGOs) have confirmed their active participation in the PPTA in the form of technical inputs. The World Health Organization has committed the participation of a food safety specialist during PPTA implementation. NGOs, the private sector, and communities will be involved in project identification and conceptualization during project preparation. |
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| Consulting Services | The Project will require inputs of 13 person months of international consulting services and 15 person months of national consulting services. International Consultants: 1. Hospital planning specialist ( person months). 2. Health Economis (2 person months). 3. Drug safety specialist (2 person months) 4. Financial and economic analyst (2 person months). 5. Poverty and social safeguard specialist (1.5 person months). 6. Environmental specialist (1.5 person months). National consultants: 1. Hospital planning specialist (5 person months) 2. Drug safety specialist (4 person months) 3. Financial and economic analyst (2 person months) 4. Poverty and social safeguard specialist (2 person months) 5. Environmental specialist (2 person months) |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Bodart, Claude |
| Responsible ADB Department | East Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Urban and Social Sectors Division, EARD |
| Executing Agencies |
Ministry of Health (formerly Ministry of Health and Sports) |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 06 Jan 2009 |
| Fact Finding | 12 Jan 2009 to 23 Jan 2009 |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 14 Jul 2009 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| PDS Creation Date | 02 Feb 2009 |
| Last PDS Update | 09 Dec 2011 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 14 Jul 2009 | 05 Aug 2009 | 05 Aug 2009 | 30 Mar 2010 | 30 Nov 2011 | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 600,000.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 700,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 491,717.35 |
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