Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program (WB-P180283)

Countries
  • Bangladesh
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
Approved
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
Dec 19, 2024
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 Bangladesh - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
  • Law and Government
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant, Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 379.00 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.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 25.00 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)
$ 5,000.00 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
Media Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jun 2, 2025

Disclosed by Bank Nov 5, 2023

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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 Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to improve access and utilization of quality health and nutrition services and build health system resilience in select geographical areas.

The development objective of the Bangladesh - Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program-for-Results is to support a subset of the Government’s program in the two targeted divisions (Chattogram and Sylhet) among the eight divisions in Bangladesh. The Program focuses on three RAs and will incentivize the achievement of corresponding DLIs. Selected PDO and intermediate outcome indicators have been strategically included as DLIs. These have been selected based on the extent to which they signal the implementation of critical actions or the realization of key outcomes that need additional incentivization. Table 4 lists the DLIs across the three RAs while Annex 2 provides more details on each DLI (including whether they are time-bound and scalable) and the corresponding verification protocols.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

The initial assessment of both environmental and social risk levels is considered moderate.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

A proposed credit in the amount of SDR 284.7 million (US$379 million equivalent), and a grant from the global financing facility in the amount of US$25 million.


Contact Information
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World Bank

Bushra Binte Alam
Senior Health Specialist

Mickey Chopra
Lead Health Specialist

Borrower/Client/Recipient

Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance
Md. Mostafizur Rahman
Additional Secretary
wingchief02@erd.gov.bd

Implementing Agencies

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Nargis Khanam
Additional Secretary
addlsecypln.hsd@gmail.com

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE WORLD BANK

The World Bank Inspection Panel is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who believe they are likely to be, or have been, adversely affected by a World Bank-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the Inspection Panel, they may investigate to assess whether the World Bank is following its own policies and procedures for preventing harm to people or the environment. You can contact the Inspection Panel or submit a complaint by emailing ipanel@worldbank.org. Information on how to file a complaint and a complaint request form are available at: https://www.inspectionpanel.org/how-to-file-complaint

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