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National Project Implementation Plan - NVBDCP

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Chapter 16<br />

Enhanced <strong>Implementation</strong> Support<br />

Background:<br />

The <strong>Project</strong> will enhance Government of India’s efforts to control malaria in<br />

high burden districts from eight states and eliminate kala-azar from highly<br />

endemic districts in three states. The project is expected to contribute to<br />

poverty reduction and to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).<br />

The World Bank has supported an earlier project ‘Enhanced malaria control<br />

project’ for control of malaria which closed in December 2005.<br />

Based on the feedback from the Quality Enhancement Review, the project<br />

design has been significantly changed. From the original concept of supporting<br />

a nation-wide program covering all vector borne diseases, the project has now<br />

been limited to two diseases causing highest burden among the poorest<br />

covering the most endemic districts in 11 states. Some of the states having<br />

highest burden of malaria and kala-azar, especially the states of Chhattisgarh,<br />

Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar, have weak implementation capacities and<br />

fiduciary oversight. This poses a major challenge for the implementation of new<br />

diagnosis and treatment policy for malaria control and elimination of kala-azar.<br />

Given the weak implementation environment and experience to-date with<br />

externally assisted projects in country, close and intensive implementation<br />

support will be critical for achieving the development objectives.<br />

16.1 Strategy for the enhanced <strong>Implementation</strong> Support<br />

The strategy involves a combination of continues oversight and periodic more<br />

intensive implementation support and will have specific focus on three broad<br />

areas:<br />

(a) Progress in <strong>Implementation</strong> of agreed technical reforms: The scope of these<br />

reviews will include new drug policy, introduction of RDKs and LLINs. This will<br />

be done through: (1) improvements in project MIS supported by GIS mapping;<br />

(2) World Bank tion of MIS through Lot Quality Assurance Surveys (LQAS); (3)<br />

two rounds of household surveys out which first will be during the early<br />

implementation review; (4) systematic monitoring of therapeutic efficacy of<br />

anti-malarial drugs and vector resistance for insecticides being used in the<br />

program; (5) monitoring the quality of pharmaceuticals and commodities<br />

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