Bilateral health programmes
Individual Documents
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"...UNDER the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) by the Japanese government, the embassy of Japan signed an agreement yesterday to fund about US$ 480,000 to upgrading the Maungtaw Hospital and providing medical equipment to it. The signing ceremony was held at the Japanese embassy in Yangon yesterday, and the grant assistance was signed by Japanese Ambassador Mr Maruyama and Chairman of the Maungtaw People’s Hospital Construction Supervising Committee U Hla Min. The idea of the Project for Upgrading of Maungdaw People’s Hospital was generated when Ambassador Mr Maruy
ama visited Rakhine State and met with local people and returnees from Bangladesh..."
Source/publisher:
The Global New Light of Myanmar, 2020
Date of publication:
2020-03-25
Date of entry/update:
2020-04-25
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Bilateral health programmes, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
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Executive
Summary:
"Burma (also known as Myanmar) is
a fragile state,
one of
the poorest countries in Asia,
with a long history of
political unrest and armed conflict.
Following elections in
2010, the country is now undergoing rapid change.
The
UK
is
the largest international donor to Burma. It
spends
almost half of its Burma expenditure on health,
?110
million
over the period
2010-15.
This
review
assesses
whether
DFID
is achieving
impact and value for money in
Burma through its aid to the health sector.....
Overall
Assessment: Green -
DFID has designed and delivered an appropriate health
aid programme in a country where there is significant
health need
and where there are
significant challenges of
access and capacity. DFID has
demonstrated clear
leadership in
working well with intended beneficiaries,
other donors, delivery partners and the
Government of
Burma?s
Ministry of Health. The health programme has
addressed many
health
needs,
although demonstrating
the impact of DFID?s health programmes has been
difficult given the
lack of
good data in Burma...
Objectives
Assessment: Green -
DFID?s health programme
has identified and balanced
the
health needs of the Burmese people wi
th the longer-term objective of helping the Government
of Burma
to
develop a robust public health system.
We consider
DFID
Burma?s health
objectives to be sound.
DFID has taken
the lead in a challenging environment, complementing
the work of other donors
and contributing to the
peacebuilding
process by working
in conflict-affected
and
ceasefire areas.
By
developing relationships at
the
local
level, DFID has helped
to
create a bottom-up approach to
identifying health needs
which has informed the
design of
health programmes
and has
prepared
the
ground
for
stronger state–citizen relationships in the future.
There is,
however,
a lack of a clear approach for engaging with the
informal and for-profit sectors
which accounted
for
up to
85% of health
expenditure
in Burma
in 2011...
Delivery
Assessment: Green -
The health programme has delivered against its
objectives and has helped
to
address the needs of
intended beneficiaries. Good governance, sound financial
management and risk management are
integrated into
the design and delivery of each intervention.
Administrative
and overhead costs of the programmes
need to be understood better
by DFID
to help
to
ensure
that delivery costs represent
value for money...
Impact
Assessment: Green -
Programme targets have, on the whole, been achieved.
The health impact to date has been positive, insofar as it
can be measured, although there is a risk that attribution
to DFID may have been over-estimated
by
an
independent evaluation.
Intended beneficiaries
who we
met
in Burma, including
people living in the Irrawaddy
Delta and intravenous drug users suffering from
HIV/AIDS, supported this view of positive impact.
Despite
being largely humanitarian, the programme has been
implemented
in the light of
longer-term, strategic
objectives for the wider health sector. As a result, the
prospects of generating better health impacts in the
future, from the solid foundations built through DFID?s
presence and leadership in the sector, are good...
Learning
Assessment: Green-Amber -
DFID is sensitive to
the context of working in Burma and
is taking account of lessons learned. Recommendations
from end-of-programme evaluations have been taken on
board in new designs, especially around future
monitoring and evaluation.
The physical, political and aid
context for generating evidence in Burma is very
challenging. As a result, the monitoring of outcomes is
difficult,
due to a lack of robust baseline data. DFID could
have done more work to establish baselines.
It is now
doing so for the new Three Millennium Development
Goals (3MDG) Fund,
which brings together previous
programmes as well as new areas of health activities.
The 3MDG Fund also presents significant risks
as it
needs
to be highly flexible in a rapidly changing Burma.
Also, there is a risk that
critical
corporate memory
could
be
lost as long-serving DFID staff are replaced..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) - Report 25
Date of publication:
2013-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2013-08-11
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Individual Documents
Category:
Bilateral health programmes
Language:
English
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Description:
TITLE: Three Diseases Fund...
BENEFICIARY COUNTRY: Myanmar...
1. RATIONALE:
1.1. Strategic framework -
The Three Diseases Fund is in accordance with the humanitarian objectives of each of the
participating donors in relation to Myanmar. It is also in line with the European Union
Common Position on Myanmar?. The proposed action addresses the prevailing public health
emergency relating to the three major communicable diseases - HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria -
through financial contributions to a single pooled funding mechanism - the Three Diseases
Fund (3DF)..."
Source/publisher:
DFID
Date of publication:
2006-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2007-10-12
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Bilateral health programmes
Language:
English
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