53 PHN 1991 Secor Review

# _Z&_ - _Social Sector Project_

(a) to protect vulnerable populaton groups from the adverse social effects of a deteriorating economic situation; (b) to maintain, in coUaboration with other donors, essential public health, nutrition and fmily planning programs; and (c) to prepare future projects and programs in the sodal sectors by developing new policies on women-in-development, population and environment, and by establishing a national capability for collecting and anabling soial indicators

# _Zambia - Social Recovey PNect_

lb fund community initiatives to help mitigate the negative effecs on the poor of the eownomic crisis. lb this end, the project will support the rehabilitation and improvement of eisting infrastructure and service delivery through the Micro-projects Unit in the Ministry of Finance. The project will strengthen communities' ability to improve their situation through self-help. Fnrther, the project wiU improve the information base and provide analyses to enhance the Government's planning and policy makdng in the social sectors.

## _Zimbabwe - Second Family Health Project_

The project will provide the required financial and human resources for most of the Covernment's five-year investment program (1992.96) for health/population/nutrition (H/P/N), and wil promote policy and institutional reforms, in order to: (a) improve maternal and chfld health and nutrition status; (b) reduce the rate of population growth; and (c) ensure that households in the 16 worst-served districts (40% of the population) have access to basic H/P/N services. lb achieve these objectives, the project will increase the output and effective utilization of trained Zimbabwean health, family planning, and nutrition workers; enhance MOH capacity to plan and manage H/P/N activities; and increase efficiency and mobilize additional resources.

'he project will support the following six components: (a) Famlly Planning; training, community outreach and static facility services, special youth services, EEC campaigns, evaluation and research, and better management; (b) Maternal and Child Health; midwifery training, maternity equipment, school health program, and operations research; (c) Nutrition; supplement^ary food production, growth monitoring, micro-nutrient supplementation, IEC, and training; (d) Rural Health Delivery: upgrading of 16 district hospitals and about 80 RHO, prvision of staff housing, ambulances and supervisory transport, medical equipment, and radio communication; (e) Health Manpower Development: institutional strengthening, curriculum reform, systems development and studies, and selective upgrading of training facilities; and (f) Health Management Strengthening: training and systems development in financial management, materials/equipment management, district-level informaton systems, and sector planning.

# Asia RegIon

# _Bw,#ad - Fouth Populadon and Health Project_

The project, which covers a flve-year time slice of GOB's development program in populadon and health (1991-96), has four main components: (a) strengthening FP service deliveiy, (b) strengthening health services deliery, and (c) improving supportive acivities to the deliery of FP and health services; and (d) women's and nutrition progmams. It will strengthen FP service delivery by improving access to FP services, strengthening MCH services, enhancing clinical servic- delivery and FP/MCH quality assurance, imparting in-service training of upazila and district staff in FP/MCH, construction and renovation of