| Project Detail |
The development objective of COVID-19 Emergency Response Project for West Bank and Gaza is to prevent, detect and support immediate response to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen the West Bank and Gaza health systems for public health preparedness. This project has 3 components. 1) Emergency COVID-19 response. This component aims to slow down and limit as much as possible the spread of COVID-19. This will be achieved through providing immediate support to enhance case detection, confirmation, recording and reporting, contact tracing and risk assessment and mitigation. Specifically, this component will strengthen epidemiological surveillance systems, including indicator-based, community event-based, and sentinel surveillance. 2) Strengthening overall healthcare services and clinical capacity to respond to COVID-19. The aim of this component is to strengthen essential healthcare service delivery to be able to provide the best care possible for people who become ill despite a surge in demand. The component will support the strengthening of selected health facilities and establishment and equipping of quarantine and treatment centers, so that they can manage COVID-19 cases. This would also include minor civil works and retrofitting of isolation rooms in such facilities and treatment centers. 3) Project implementation and monitoring. This component will finance necessary human resources and running costs for the Project Management Unit (PMU) at the MOH, including: (i) staffing, (ii) data collection, aggregation and periodic reporting on the project’s implementation progress; (iii) monitoring of the project’s key performance indicators and periodical evaluation; and (iv) overall project operating costs, audit costs and monitoring and compliance with Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP). |
