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Pakistan
>> Regional Overview >> Pakistan Overview Program Data Sheet
391-YYY
USAID PROGRAM: Pakistan
PROGRAM TITLE: Health (Pillar: Global Health)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Improved Basic Health Services, 391-YYY
STATUS: New
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $5,000,000 CSH
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $12,500,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2002 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: USAID’s goal is to promote the health of the Pakistani people through interventions that can be sustained over the long term at the local and national levels, especially through targeted programs to— · promote voluntary family planning, and · reduce morbidity and mortality in young children and women.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: USAID was Pakistan’s largest donor in the health sector until the USAID program closed in 1995. Assistance from 1985-1995 totaled $165 million for child survival activities to reduce child morbidity and mortality due to diarrheal diseases, measles, neonatal tetanus, and acute respiratory infections. Approximately $72 million (1982-1994) was obligated for the Population Welfare Planning project. Since 1995, when USAID’s bilateral development program was closed, modest assistance in health has been provided under the Pakistan NGO Initiative (PNI), emphasizing the rights of women and girls to health services. Past assessments of PNI’s performance and future prospects have been favorable, building a stronger civil society and improving the quality of NGOs to deliver community-based health services.
FY 2002 Program: Eight years after closing its USAID Mission in Pakistan, in January 2002 the United States announced its reopening. A draft strategic framework for developing a program was developed to address the needs of the health sector. The goal is to promote the health of the Pakistani people through interventions that can be sustained over the long-term at the local and national levels, especially through targeted programs to promote voluntary family planning, and reduce morbidity and mortality in young children and women. A central part of this effort will be supporting reform across the health sector, with the aim of improving the coverage, responsiveness, quality, and efficiency of health services. USAID’s efforts will take advantage of the Government’s willingness to work in partnership with the NGO and commercial sectors to meet its health objectives. Target populations include children, pregnant women, youth and newly married couples, underserved populations, and persons at risk of HIV/AIDS.
USAID programs will deliver an integrated package of services including family planning and reproductive health services, maternal healthcare, newborn care and child survival, polio eradication, HIV/AIDS surveillance and prevention program, and health systems strengthening, including drugs and commodities. USAID support will aim both to be consistent with Pakistani cultural and religious norms and to advance gender equity and the status and role of women in Pakistan’s development. To be effective and sustainable, health programs will build on needs as perceived by communities, building on lessons learned from the current and recent programs. Immediate activities will include coordination with the Government of Pakistan and Ministry of Health to assess needs; donor mapping and coordination; identification of partners/NGOs; detailed program planning; and possible scale-up of selected existing programs such as support to the WHO polio eradication program, social marketing of contraceptives and health products, NGO capacity-building, service delivery, health systems strengthening, and public-private partnerships.
FY 2003 Program: USAID will use FY 2003 funds to build upon the work begun in the first year of the program.
Performance and Results: To be determined.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: To be determined.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
391-YYY Improved Basic Health Services CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 Expenditures 0 Unliquidated 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 Expenditures 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 0 Expenditures 0 Unliquidated 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 5,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 5,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 12,500 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 5,000 12,500
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Last Updated on: May 29, 2002 |
