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Designed & Maintained
by SDNP Bangladesh
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PROJECTS / RESEARCH (Other)
(i) Health and Population Sector Programme,
HPSP (1998-2003)
HPSP is the large internationally financed
(World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO and UNAIDS) program, which
is aimed to reduce infant and maternal mortality and morbidity,
improvements in nutritional status and reductions in fertility
so that replacement-level fertility will be reached by the year
2005. The purpose of the programme is to "achieve client-centred
provision and client utilization of an Essential 'Service
Package, plus selected services". The Essential Service Package
(ESP) includes prioritized reproductive and child health
services, communicable disease control and limited curative
care. In addition, a new component Behavioural Change
Communication (BCC) has been initiated to empower people to
demand services and expect quality of life and health care. To
achieve the overall goal of the programme over the next five to
seven years, the government will pursue at least five
strategies: 1) design and implement the ESP; 2) reorganize
public sector service provision; 3) improve financial
sustainability; 4) build a greater role for the private sector
and NGOs; and 5) review, revise and update the National Drug
Policy, particularly for the purpose of increasing the
availability and affordability of essential drugs and promoting
the rational use of drugs. The program will address the issues
of gender in human resource development activities of the MOHFW,
enhancing opportunities for women at the policy and planning
level, improve working conditions and guarantee career
structures for women.
(ii) National Integrated Population and
Health Programme, NIPHP (1997-2004)
NIPHP is funded by USAID and implementing by
MOHFW, along with two service delivery partners, RSDP (Rural
Service Delivery Partnership) and the USDP (Urban Service
Delivery Partnership), and five other supporting entities. The
primary purpose of the NPHP is to enhance the quality of life of
poor and underprivileged members of the society by helping to
reduce fertility and improve family health. The partners
currently operate through 45 NGOs within Bangladesh's national
population and health programme and cover approximately 25
million people. The programme emphasizes the delivery of a high
quality high impact ESP (lesser version) 'in a clinic-based
one-stop setting, targeted to the whole family. The services are
provided through both static clinics and satellite clinics.
These clinics are supposed to be readily accessible to the
poorer and socially disadvantaged segments of the population,
particularly in the under-served and poor-performing areas of
the country. The NIPHP has a stronger focus on child survival
activities and on maternal and reproductive health activities.
The RSDP supports 20 NGOs working in 171 of the 460 thanas of
rural Bangladesh. There are 159 Static Clinics and 595 Satellite
Clinics functioning in these locations. The USDP supports 25
NGOs in the four City Corporations of Bangladesh and in 67 other
smaller municipalities. There are now a total of 117 Static
Clinics and 244 Satellite Clinics functioning in these
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