Lesotho Nutrition and Health System Strengthening Project (WB-P170278)

Countries
  • Lesotho
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
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
B
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Voting Date
Nov 14, 2019
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
Kingdom of Lesotho
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
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 60.00 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)
$ 60.00 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 Aug 28, 2019

Disclosed by Bank Aug 22, 2019

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Project Description
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According to bank documents, the project objective is to increase utilization and quality of key nutrition and health services and strengthen institutional capacity to implement key policy reforms in the health sector.

The proposed Project will have four main components:

  1. Providing Multisectoral Services to Address Chronic Malnutrition (US$25 million)
    1. Sub-component 1.1. National Nutrition Communication Strategy.
    2. Sub-component 1.2. Community-based initiatives to address multisectoral determinants of chronic malnutrition.
    3. Sub-component 1.3 Nutrition sensitive services in Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centers and Child Care Centers.
    4. Sub-component 1.4. Adolescent school health.
  2. Strengthening Health Systems (US$29.5 million). This component proposes to finance interventions to increase the focus on results, particularly in enhancing the quality and efficiency of health service delivery. It will finance activities to strengthen health sector governance and capacity building for the health workforce. It will be composed of three main sub-components:
    1. Sub-Component 2.1. Focus on Results
      1. Sub-component 2.1.1. Second-Generation Performance Based Financing.
      2. Sub-Component 2.1.2: Disbursement-Linked Indicators (DLI) for health system reforms.
    2. Sub-component 2.2. Quality of Care. This sub-component will enhance quality of care through better health management, medical equipment and stock management.
    3. Sub-component 2.3. Technical Support and Capacity Building on Health Policy, Health Financing, Performance-Based Financing Institutionalization, and Public Private Partnerships
  3. Project Management, Multi-stakeholder Coordination, Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning ($5 million). The primary objectives of this component are to enhance national capacities for coordination and governance on nutrition and to strengthen project management. It will have three main sub-components:
    1. Sub-component 3. 1. Overall Nutrition Advocacy, Co-ordination, Monitoring and reporting to Prime Minister’s office.
    2. Sub-component 3.2. Project Management.
    3. Sub-component 3.3. Assessments, Knowledge Sharing and Learning.
  4. Component 4. Contingency Emergency Response Component/CERC (US$0.5 million). In the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, the project will contribute to providing immediate and effective response to said Eligible Crisis or Emergency. To help speed up the response, the project proposes to allocate an amount to reduce time spent on assessing which activities to cut and reallocate funds from. Any unused amount would be reallocated to other components if the CERC component is not triggered a year prior to project closing.
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World Bank:
Christine Lao Pena, Pia Helene Schneider
Senior Human Development Economist

Borrower:
Kingdom of Lesotho
Honorable Dr. Moeketsi Majoro
Minister of Finance
financeminister2018@gmail.com

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of Health
Minister Nkaku Kabi
Minister of Health
masabatamashea@gmail.com 

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