Access to quality essential healthcare for the disadvantaged including disabled people (360G-cabinetoffice-G2-GA-202112638337-21-22)

To test and support effective and sustainable models for increasing access to essential health services for 2 million disadvantaged people including estimated 138,000 disabled, living on the coast, for future scale-up. The programme will use adaptive approach and will be implemented through three inter-linked components. Component I will test innovative models for providing essential healthcare, including family planning, maternal-new-born health and nutrition services. Component II will address health needs of 138,000 disabled people by creating enabling environment, ensuring access to essential healthcare and linking them with appropriate referral centres. Component III will focus on continuous evaluation, learning and adaptation of best approaches for driving effectiveness and sustainability. In addition, building capacity to tackle climate shocks will be an integral part of the programme in the two costal divisions i.e. Barisal and Khulna.