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PRIMEX to design urban primary health care sector project for Bangladesh |
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Posted on 13 September 2011 A Project Preparatory Technical Assistance (PPTA) project aimed at developing a comprehensive urban primary health care sector project for Bangladesh has been awarded to PRIMEX in association with Bangladeshi firm, HB Consultants Ltd. (HBC). TA 7655-BAN: Urban Primary Health Care Sector Development Project ((UPHCSDP) will prepare the design of a project that will build on the gains of two earlier ADB-funded UPHC projects. While these UPHC projects now provide free services to 13% of the total population in the project areas, the proposed UPHCSDP will serve as a major milestone in “looking ahead and finding ways to sustain the good work of UPHCP.” The preceding projects have put in place 161 primary health care centers (PHCCs), 24 comprehensive reproductive health care centers (CRHCCs), 63 TB-DOTS (Directly Observable Treatment Short Course) centers, 644 satellite clinics, 24 HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and treatment (VCT) centers, and 24 primary eye care centers. The new UPHC investment project will strengthen the pro-poor focus, nutrition provision focus, reproductive health services, and project implementation, and expand the service provision to other backward areas of Bangladesh. During the conduct of the PPTA, the PRIMEX-led consulting team will develop prototype or model subprojects that will aim at achieving the intended impact and outcome of the proposed investment project. Possible subprojects that will produce a maximum impact on the health and nutrition status and maternal and child health (MCH) of the urban poor and on the capacity of public and private sector organizations to deliver basic PHC services to urban communities will also be developed. The TA Team will, among others, (i) gather relevant information and meet with a wide range of stakeholders; (ii) review and assess existing performance and practices, particularly UPHCP-II, and identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; and (iii) explore options that will strengthen overall project effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability. An assessment of the performance of key sector institutions, particularly the Ministry of Health and Family Affair (MOHFW) and the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives (MOLGRDC) and government structures will be undertaken before appropriate policy agenda, key investment areas, and options for institutional development are developed. In formulating the investment project, the consultant team is expected to conduct rapid social and poverty assessment of selected beneficiary communities; conduct financial management assessment; undertake organization and management studies, financial and economic analysis, and social dimensions analysis. The PRIMEX-HBC TA Team is composed of 15 consultants, of whom eight are from PRIMEX. The are: Ms. Corazon A. Posadas, Team Leader/Health Finance Expert; Dr. Azam Ali, Deputy Team Leader/Public Health Specialist; Mr. Conrado Espinar, Governance and Financial Management Expert; Dr. Francisco Flores Katayama, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert; Dr Leonardo Alcantara, Reproductive Health Expert; Mr Anthony Drexler, PPP Transaction Expert; Mr Jay Lowell Payuyo, Medical IT Expert; and Mr. Abdul Malek Azmi, Hospital Equipment Expert. Ms. Elvira C. Ablaza, PRIMEX President and CEO, is Consultant Project Director, providing oversight supervision of the Team’s activities and supporting the Team Leader in the preparation of the required TA reports. Ms. Ma. Lourdes Sumilang, PRIMEX Senior Vice President, ensures timely and adequate financial and administrative backstopping from the PRIMEX Home Office with assistance from Ms. Aiza Dumlao, PRIMEX Project Assistant. The PPTA is expected to end in mid-December 2011. PHOTO BELOW: A child from a farmer family is being treated in a clinic in Bangladesh. The UPHC will endeavor to provide one stop shopping for health and population services. Back to Top |Back to News/Events
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