Afghanistan Sehatmandi Project (WB-P160615)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Afghanistan
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Active
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 28, 2018
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 140.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 600.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Sep 9, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Sep 6, 2017

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the website of the World Bank, the proposed development objective of the project is to increase the utilization and quality of health, nutrition, and family planning services in Afghanistan.

The Project would consist of the following three components:

Component 1: Improving Service Delivery. This component will support the financing of performance contracts to deliver Basic Packages of Health Services (BPHS) and essential package of hospital services and establish an innovation fund.

Component 2: Strengthening the Health System and its Performance.This component will support shifts towards greater performance management of NGOs and to address some of the emerging broader sector challenges that require a reform of tertiary and national hospitals and improvement in the procurement and supply chain management of pharmaceuticals

Component 3: Strengthening demand and community accountability for key health services. This component aims to build demand and strengthen accountability mechanisms for critical health and nutrition services especially for maternal health, nutrition and family planning.

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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World Bank

Ghulam Dastagir Sayed
Senior Health Specialist

Mickey Chopra
Lead Health Specialist

Mohammad Tawab Hashemi
Senior Health Specialist

Email and telephone contacts were not disclosed.

Borrower/Client/Recipient
Ministry of Finance
Khesraw Momand
Health Sector Coordinator
khesrow.momand@budgetmof.gov.af

Implementing Agencies
Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)
H.E. Ferozuddin Feroz
Minister of Public Health
ferozuddin_feroz@yahoo.com

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