South Sudan’s Minister of Health, Yolanda Awel Deng applauded the UK-led Health Pooled Fund—an initiative designed to rebuild and equip the broken South Sudan’s health system—for its tremendous support to the people of South Sudan.
After 12 years of implementation, the Health Pooled Fund will phase out support to the provision of essential health service delivery on 30th June 2024, and transition into the Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) from the 1st of July 2024.
The Health Pooled Fund, which started in October 2012, was implemented through three phases in up to 8 States across South Sudan.
It has supported millions of people in South Sudan by providing access to good quality basic health services and supporting the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GRSS) to build the foundations for the provision of quality healthcare for its people.
Led by the UK Government, jointly funded by the Governments of the United States, Canada, and Sweden; the EU delegation, and GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, and delivered by a Fund Manager consortium led by Crown Agents and supported by Montrose, International Procurement Agency, as well as a number of NGO implementing partners.
“South Sudan is grateful for the contributions of the HPF over the last decade in supporting the government to deliver lifesaving health services for our population across some of the country’s most vulnerable and hard-to-reach parts. The programme has been instrumental in delivering essential medicine and health supplies, training health workers, and strengthening our fragile health system,” said Hon Yolanda Awel Deng, Minister of Health, South Sudan.
The new Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) establishes a nationwide health service delivery platform, led by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Bank and other donor partners.
As managing organizations, UNICEF and WHO will support the implementation of health service delivery and strengthen the health system.
“We are excited to progress into this new phase of health service delivery across the whole nation through the HSTP – led and owned by the Government. We aim to have a more integrated, strengthened national health system to improve the health and wellbeing of all men, women, and children, and tackle the health challenges we face today and in the future,” said Hon. Minister Yolanda Awel Deng.
The HSTP begins in July and is aiming to scale up to support 1158 health facilities across the 10 states and 3 administrative areas over the 3-year project lifetime.
Golden Times | South Sudan
