Primary Health Care (PHC)

Projekt abgeschlossen

The Primary Health Care project supports government as well as ethnic health systems in Kayin/Karen State, a conflict affected State of southeast Myanmar. Basic health services are strengthened through training, supervision and supplies. Communities are empowered to achieve better health and feedback mechanisms are introduced. The project further supports the coordination between ethnic and government health systems whenever possible.

Land/Region Thema Periode Budget
Myanmar
Gesundheit
Primäre Gesundheitsversorgung
Stärkung der Gesundheitssysteme
01.03.2014 - 31.12.2018
CHF  9’820’000
Hintergrund

Kayin/Karen State in southeast Myanmar is affected by the civil war, with areas controlled by government and others by Non-state actors (NSA). Health systems hence exist in parallel and service delivery is weak on both sides following decades of underfunding. In NSA areas, health indicators are very low.

Ziele

Disadvantaged people in rural communities, including conflict-affected and vulnerable populations, have access to better basic health infrastructures and services and are enabled to contribute to local health governance through enhanced individual and organisational capacities.

Zielgruppen

The project will serve:

a population of 380,000 in 672 villages, incl.

  • 14,000 pregnant women
  • 30,000 children under 5
Mittelfristige Wirkungen
  • Equitable access, use and quality of basic health services is improved in rural areas of target townships in southeast Myanmar
  • Community are empowered to improve health and health governance.
  • Government and ethnic health systems in southeast Myanmar are coordinated and strengthened
Resultate

Erwartete Resultate:  

  • Coordinated township health plans rolled out in Kawkareik
  • About 170 health centre based staff capacitated to provide supportive supervision and teamwork with community health staff.
  • About 1300 community health cadres trained to support communities.
  • Health centres with poor condition in target areas refurbished.
  • About 550 inclusive village and village tract health communities capacitated, with women in decision-making roles.
  • Community supported referral system to emergency obstetric care strengthened and about 6300 patients benefitted from referral funds.
  • Community feedback mechanisms established and increasingly used by villagers to provide feedback on health services, in turn fed into policy dialogue.
  • Exchanges between government and ethnic health organisations increased (process), if context allows.


Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

  • Open tender process conducted for one component of the project (PA2)
  • Assessments have been conducted to serve as base to the project planning.
  • A map of Kawkareik district has been produced showing all (government and ethnic) clinics.
  • A Comprehensive Township Health Plan is developed for Kawkareik district.
  • The dialogue between ethnic health organizations (EHOs) and State and District Health teams have been initiated/continued.


Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt DEZA
Kreditbereich Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Projektpartner Vertragspartner
Internationale oder ausländische NGO
  • Andere internationale oder ausländische NGO Norden


Andere Partner

Ministry of Health

Koordination mit anderen Projekten und Akteuren

The 3MDG township ‘model’ is being used as a basis for this project, as well as key findings and recommendations from its Strategic Review. Lessons learned from the project implementation will be fed in Fund Board discussions.

Regular coordination meetings will take place with other main donors and implementing partners in the area, particularly the USAID PLE project and DfID.

Budget Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF    9’820’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF    9’074’032
Projektphasen Phase 3 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2026   (Laufende Phase) Phase 2 01.01.2019 - 30.04.2023   (Completed)

Phase 1 01.03.2014 - 31.12.2018   (Completed)