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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
A. Project Development Objective
PDO Statement
To improve access to quality health and nutrition services in targeted areas of Lao PDR.
HANSA has a particular focus on the four northern provinces in Lao PDR, which have been
chosen for multiple, simultaneous, and mutually reinforcing investments by the GOL and the World
Bank, as these provinces represent the most ethnically diverse, remote, and disadvantaged geographical
locations in Lao PDR, with several service access challenges—particularly for women and children. Several
nutrition-centric interventions under HANSA, such as DLIs for SBCC, integrated outreach, and for growth
monitoring promotion, are concentrated in the 12 nutrition convergence districts in these four provinces.
Other interventions, which will eventually roll out nationwide over the lifetime of HANSA, such as the
Quality and Performance Scorecard (QPS), PFM capacity building at health center levels, and the direct
data entry under District Health Information System version 2 (DHIS2), also commence in these four
provinces first and therefore will see the longest duration of investment efforts in these provinces. The
interventions for TB and HIV are targeted differently, on provinces according to the respective program
priorities. |
