The Primary Health Care (PHC) Innovation Fund (PIF) is made available for provincial and regional health offices in Uva, Sabararagamuwa, North Central and Central Provinces to use their own insights to improve PHC in terms of access, range, quality or efficiency of services. It will be managed by each of the Project Implementation Units (PIU/s) under the guidance of the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the ADB financed Health System Enhancement Project.
The focus of the PIF will be on PHC development and 5 groups of interventions have been identified as eligible areas for project funding. The grant is provided to prepare, implement and monitor a grant-financed project within the approved scope and conditions as provided. The grant applicant may want to be informed about, take advantage of, and build on ongoing initiatives and experiences in and outside the 4 provinces.
(i) Improving PHC management, including cluster management, a supervisory system, performance monitoring, gender promotion, and environmental and social safeguards.
(ii) Human resources development including training doctors in family medicine, training midwives in field health stations in preventive care, nutrition counselling.
(iii) Information technology for better patient management and disease control, including e-Health cards, linking preventive and curative care, referral systems, medical supplies, geographic information systems, distance learning services, and disease surveillance.
(iv) Scaling up services including health and nutrition promotion, diagnostic services, emergency services, family medicine, NCD services, and infection prevention and control.
(v) Rehabilitation of facilities including roofs, electricity, sanitation, water supply, and waste management (no new constructions).
Guidelines for utilization of the Primary Health Care Innovation Fund and the draft application form. Click here