The World Bank is financing the Afghanistan Health
Emergency Response (HER) project implemented by the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and their respective
NGO Service Providers (SPs), Cooperating Partners (CPs),
and contractors to provide essential health services to
the population of Afghanistan. The project development
objective (PDO) is to increase the utilization and
quality of essential health and nutrition services in
Afghanistan. The HER project has the following
components:
·
Component 1 - “Urgent provision of essential primary and
secondary health services”. (UNICEF)
·
Component 2 - “Strengthening
service delivery and project coordination”. (UNICEF)
·
Component 3 - “Strengthening
demand and access to enhance nutritional outcomes among
the most vulnerable – the Maternal and Child Benefit
Program (MCBP)”. (WFP)
Through the second
Additional Financing, the HER project will be extended
until November 30, 2026, and will introduce a
livelihoods intervention through the WFP-implemented
MCBP service delivery platform to increase financial
protection for better access and use of health and
nutrition services.
