[{"bbox": [86, 152, 458, 175], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 207, 453, 236], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 257, 1133, 334], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this Action is to contribute to improve the health conditions of vulnerable populations affected by extreme poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition in Sudan including IDPs, refugees and Host Communities."}, {"bbox": [97, 363, 572, 390], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objective (Outcome) of this Action is:"}, {"bbox": [97, 409, 1133, 488], "category": "Text", "text": "To increase sustainable access to and demand for quality Primary Health Care (PHC), nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in targeted States, including for host communities, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees."}, {"bbox": [97, 515, 1133, 647], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is contributing to the integration of migrants, IDPs and refugees. They will benefit, together with their host communities, from the improvement of health care services in order to do no harm to the cohesion within the communities. Interventions will focus on localities with a high incidence of IDP and migrant population. In some areas IDPs make up the quasi totality of the resident population, such as in two camps in El Fasher, North Darfur, as well as in the Mayo neighbourhood at the periphery of Khartoum."}, {"bbox": [97, 675, 1117, 702], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this Action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objective (Outcome) are:"}, {"bbox": [172, 721, 1133, 801], "category": "Text", "text": "1. Primary healthcare, nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services at Primary Health Care (PHC) centre and community level improved, including for IDPs, refugees and host communities, with particular reference to women and girls and people with disabilities (PwD);"}, {"bbox": [172, 801, 913, 827], "category": "Text", "text": "2. Management capacity and accountability of local health systems strengthened;"}, {"bbox": [172, 828, 945, 853], "category": "Text", "text": "3. Socio-cultural behavioural and gender barriers to health and nutrition are reduced;"}, {"bbox": [172, 854, 1013, 880], "category": "Text", "text": "4. Financial barriers to maternal and child healthcare and Family Planning (FP) are reduced."}, {"bbox": [97, 907, 1133, 1014], "category": "Text", "text": "**Final selection of States** will take place in consultation with the EU and partners implementing the programme. Suggested selection criteria; vulnerability, feasibility to deliver impact, local presence and experience, convergence with existing programming by implementing partners, incidence of migrant population and value for money."}, {"bbox": [86, 1053, 333, 1076], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 1095, 391, 1122], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 1**"}, {"bbox": [136, 1122, 1133, 1175], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1. Strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) infrastructure including Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through the construction of communal latrines and ensuring access to safe drinking water."}, {"bbox": [136, 1175, 1133, 1201], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.2. Procurement of essential medical drugs and supplies and guidelines availability at targeted PHC facilities."}, {"bbox": [136, 1201, 1133, 1251], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.3. Support public health disease surveillance, including early warning and response capacity at PHC/local level."}, {"bbox": [136, 1255, 1133, 1312], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.4. Strengthen referral mechanisms between community, PHCs and rural hospitals (supported with critical services including quality of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC))"}, {"bbox": [136, 1313, 433, 1339], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.5. Monitoring and Evaluation."}, {"bbox": [97, 1366, 391, 1392], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 2**"}, {"bbox": [136, 1392, 1133, 1471], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.1 Strengthen capacity at State and Local level on (i) budgetary planning, management and monitoring of health and nutrition programmes; (ii) supply chain management; (iii) Human Resource (HR) management, (iv) and physical capacity of Local Health Departments (LHD)."}, {"bbox": [136, 1471, 546, 1497], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.2 Build a local Health Information System."}, {"bbox": [136, 1498, 1133, 1547], "category": "List-item", "text": "2.3 Strengthen and formalize Health Community Committees, promoting the participation of women and girls and PwD."}, {"bbox": [97, 1577, 391, 1604], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 3**"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1681, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 26"}]