India Meghalaya Health Tender

Project ID P173589Region South asiaCommitment Amount Us 40.00 millionTotal Project Cost Us 50.00 millionIn summary project investments in management and accountability systems at the administrative levels Component 1 and in improving service delivery and quality at the health facility level Component 2 are expected to have a combined effect on improvingthe delivery and quality of government health services. Component 1. Improving Management and Accountability Systems 15.This component will aim to strengthen the State Department of Healths management and accountability systems which will in turn contribute to improving delivery and quality of health services. In doing so the project will help fill any gaps in the state-level response to the COVID-19 pandemic building capacity to respond to future health crisis. This will include technical support and training for administrators at the state and district levels on planning management and technical issues. The project will support integration of existing information systems and where needed development of applications to improve oversight and management of the health systemdeployment of a robust data quality monitoring system to mitigate data integrity issues and implementation of dashboards for decision-making at various management and administrative levels. Development of Human resource for health HRHthrougha multi-pronged approach to address constraints to improved availability motivation and performance shall be prioritized. This will include building the capacity of the directoratesfor planning and management of human resources developing long-term strategies for health cadre development feasibility studies for a proposed state medical college and state health university. To help address shortages in human resources for health especially in PHCs and CHCsstrategic planning and development of short medium and long-term solutions to bridge gaps including possible creation of additional health cadres. The Department of Healths procurement and supply chain management systems PSM will be strengthened to improve the supply of medicines and consumables. The project will support capacity-building of state and sub-state level structures involved in PSM like the state Procurement Board need-based retrofitting and renovations of warehouses to improve storage capacity and monitoring capacity and PSM information systems.