📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P168634
Region: latin america and caribbean
Commitment Amount: Us$ 130.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 130.00 million
The Program development objectives are to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and improve the efficiency of health and other priority p ublic services.
The Project will have two complementary components: a result-based financing component and a technical assistance component. The PforR component will support specific programs and budget lines in the medium-term plan (PPA 2020 –2023) and in the Annual Budget Law (Lei Orçamentária Anual –LOA) in key areas to improve public administration and delivery of public services with a focus on pandemic mitigation and economic recovery. The TA component will strengthen the institutional capacity of selected departments of the State government. This component is estimated at 10 percent of the total loan amount and will finance studies, impact evaluations, training and other expenses to support implementation of the programs.30.Responsibility for coordinating, monitoring and reporting on project activities and results will rest with the Secretariat of Planning (SEPL). The Project will rely on the State’s systems for monitoring and evaluation while contributing to their strengthening through technical assistance. While this will place a large burden of coordination on SEPL, experience with the previous operation demonstrates that the State’s capacity is strong. The State Secretariat of Health (SESA) will be responsible for implementing the Health Sector Management and COVID-19 Response results area. The State Secretariat of Sustainable Development and Tourism (SEDEST) will be responsible for implementing the Environmental Management results area. The State Secretariat of Administration and Social Security (SEAP), the Casa Civil, and SEPL will be responsible for implementing the Public Sector Management results area. Implementation of the TA component will be centralized in SEPL. Program-for-Results Component (US$116.6 million) 31.The Program-for-Results component will financeactivities with select government programs across eight results areas in three pillars. The activities supported by the Project and the disbursement linked indicators (DLIs) associated with each result areas are identified below.Pillar 1: Health Service Delivery 32.Results Areas 1: Support COVID-19 response. The results area will support the expansion of SESA’s hospital and laboratory capacities and prepare the State’s public health system to respond to the expected increase in demand for health services (particularly elective surgeries) that had been postponed during the pandemic. The COVID-19 response will take into consideration targeted measures to ensure access for women, the poor and vulnerable populations. The proposed DLIis: number of available hospital beds to treat COVID-19 patients in
