USAID Supported Health Facilities in Faryab Province, Afghanistan: Observations from 17 Site Visits
Abstract
USAIDs $259.6 million Partnership Contracts for Health (PCH) program operated from July 2008 through June2015 and supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in its delivery of health services to Afghans in 13 provinces. A follow-on program to the PCH program was the System Enhancement for Health Action in Transition (SEHAT) program, which ended in June 2018. The SEHAT program was administered by the World Bank and USAID was expected to provide approximately $228 million to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) in support of the program which supported the same health facilities as the PCH program to include the 17 facilities we reviewed.2 The follow-on program to the SEHAT program is the World Bank administered SEHAT Mundi program. A key component of the PCH program in Faryab was the use of detailed geospatial location informationin the form of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates which can be used to verify that health facilities constructed under the program are in locations likely to provide the intended population with needed health services. Accurate location-specific information, including geospatial coordinates, is critical to effective oversight. This is the ninth in a series of reviews that SIGAR is conducting in provinces throughout Afghanistan examining USAID-supported health facilities, and it contains information on the location, operational status, and condition on 17 of the 51 USAID-supported health facilities in Faryab.4 Security concerns prevented us from travelling to the remaining facilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1137771
Entities
People
- John Sopko
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction