PRIMEX consultant Mr. Conrado Espinar (2nd from right) with stakeholders of the Urban Primary Health Care Sector Development Project
Location: Bangladesh (Nationwide)
Client: Asian Development Bank
Associate Firm:HB Consultants Ltd. (HBC), Bangladesh
Description: The proposed Project will build on the gains of UPHCP-II by strengthening the pro-poor focus, nutrition provision aspects, reproductive health services, and project implementation; and expand the service provision to other backward areas of Bangladesh. By strengthening and mainstreaming the PPP model of service delivery, the Project will encourage alternative ways of public services delivery and enable greater role for the private sector.
Through its large focus on women’s health, the Project will enable greater gender equity. Therefore, UPHCSDP is closely aligned with Bangladesh’s National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction-II and ADB’s Country Partnership Strategy. ADB is one of the lead development partners of the Government of Bangladesh in the domain of urban development, which involves a multidimensional approach – economic (roads), public health (water supply), environmental health (sewerage, solid waste management), and primary health care.
This holistic approach to urban development also includes transforming institutions to prepare Bangladesh for the rapid urbanization process. The proposed Project is built on the rationale of synergies (blending prevention and promotion with critical PHC) and driving more effective ways of delivering services (through PPPs). The proposed project will continue the momentum gained by Bangladesh towards achieving child-, maternal health- and communicable diseases-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
