The proposed financing will come from International Development Association - a World Bank Group’s concessional lending arm for low-income countries. The money will contribute to the total investment of US$66 million for the Northern Uplands Health Support Project.

The project will improve district-level hospitals by strengthening the health workforce capacity and develop pilot models to increase staff retention in Northern mountainous provinces; provide basic medical equipment and selective facility repair and refurbishment; and improve hospital management.

It will also provide financial support to the Government’s Decision 139 to provide health care for the poor. The project will support provincial and district agencies in strengthening monitoring, reporting and supervision of the Health Care Fund for the Poor at all levels.