Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Details for Mechanism ID: 16722
Country/Region: Haiti
Year: 2013
Main Partner: Abt Associates
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $1,870,000

HFG project focuses on supporting USG's efforts to strengthen MSPP's leadership and oversight of the health sector. Two areas in particular have been outlined: health financing (HF) and human resources management (HRM). The specific activities are derived directly from the Partnership Framework's Implementation Plan (PFIP). Objective 1 of the PFIP focuses on supporting the MSPPs work in HF and HRM amongst other issues. HFG will work with the Directorate for Human Resources and OMRH when designing and implementing processes for strengthening the management and HR process. MSPP will pilot these processes so that they can then be adapted for use by other ministries. Furthermore, HFG will need to ensure that MSPP works effectively with the finance and planning ministries as it designs its health financing strategies. Two broad clusters of activities are envisaged for HFG in Haiti that follow the PFIP areas that USAID Haiti required the project to address. 1. Health financing. These include (a) the development and operationalization of a health financing policy as well as the strengthening of the capacity of the relevant units within the MSPP to be able to function together and with other ministries in order to implement and monitor the policy, (b) the strengthening of public financial management capacity in particular the budget development and execution processes and (c) resource tracking through the NHA and improved public investment planning. 2. The second group of activities relate to human resources for health management and these activities will be focused at the MSPP with full engagement of the OMRH. HFG will be working technically with several health sector stakeholders but its institutional capacity building will focus on MSPPs UPE, DAB, DRH and UADS units.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $1,870,000

HFG project focuses on supporting USG's efforts to strengthen MSPP's leadership and oversight of the health sector. Two areas in particular have been outlined: health financing (HF) and human resources management (HRM). The specific activities are derived directly from the Partnership Framework's Implementation Plan (PFIP). Objective 1 of the PFIP focuses on supporting the MSPPs work in HF and HRM amongst other issues. HFG will work with the Directorate for Human Resources and OMRH when designing and implementing processes for strengthening the management and HR process. MSPP will pilot these processes so that they can then be adapted for use by other ministries. Furthermore, HFG will need to ensure that MSPP works effectively with the finance and planning ministries as it designs its health financing strategies. Two broad clusters of activities are envisaged for HFG in Haiti that follow the PFIP areas that USAID Haiti required the project to address. 1. Health financing. These include (a) the development and operationalization of a health financing policy as well as the strengthening of the capacity of the relevant units within the MSPP to be able to function together and with other ministries in order to implement and monitor the policy, (b) the strengthening of public financial management capacity in particular the budget development and execution processes and (c) resource tracking through the NHA and improved public investment planning. 2. The second group of activities relate to human resources for health management and these activities will be focused at the MSPP with full engagement of the OMRH. HFG will be working technically with several health sector stakeholders but its institutional capacity building will focus on MSPPs UPE, DAB, DRH and UADS units.