The procurement of EmONC and the construction and setup of the Baobab Maternity Hospital are meant to achieve concrete outputs such as strengthening the referral and reducing the high rate of maternal and neonatal mortality. In addition, CCBRT’s efficient management system will serve as model for other hospitals (e.g. St Francis) and health facilities. Similar to the CCBRT Disability Hospital, the new Baobab Maternity hospital will aim to make quality services accessible to women of poor background with an innovative and sustainable financing system. The project will link with Swiss support to St. Francis Hospital (strengthening management system), the Emergency Obstetric care project (increasing basic and emergency obstetric and new born care), as well as complementing the efforts of the health basket to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates. The proposed 4 year phase will focus first on a contribution to the construction and equipment of the hospital (2011-12), and then on the strengthening of the management by developing a performance based management system which will serve as a model for PPP on referral structures (eg. St. Francis and others).

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO Private sector Foreign private sector South/East
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    5’813’200 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    5’703’694
Project phases	Phase 1 01.11.2010 - 30.06.2017   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	POPULATION POLICIES/PROGRAMMES & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH HEALTH
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Reproductive health care Basic health care
  Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F07756