South Sudan Health Rapid Results AF: The additional financing to Rapid Results Health Project will ensure continuity of high impact primary health care services in Upper Nile and Jonglei States of South Sudan. The project development objectives (PDOs) are: (i) to improve the delivery of high impact primary health care services in Recipient's states of Jonglei and Upper Nile; and (ii) to strengthen coordination and monitoring and evaluation capacities of the Ministry of Health. The additional financing will provide support to the two original components: i) Component 1 will support Delivery of high impact Primary Health Care services; ii) Component 2 will strengthen capacity of MOH at the national level. The project will also support performance based contracting, exact details of the amounts to be financed from the HRITF (possibly for amounts upto US$15 million) are still being discussed. Approval completed on 13 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146413. US$ 10.0/25.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required.
