Women's Health and Family Welfare Project

Estimated budget	A$27.8 million
Commenced	July 2002
Scheduled completion	April 2006
Counterpart Agency	Department of Health (Depkes) and the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN)
Location	NTT : Sikka, Ende, Ngada, East Flores, Manggarai & Lembata NTB: East Lombok, Central Lombok, Bima & Dompu
Australian Managing Contractor	SAGRIC International Pty Ltd
Australian Team Leader	Dr. Paulus Santosa
Contact details:	E-mail: paulus.santosa@iwhfwp.sagric.com Website: www.iwhfwp.sagric.com

Project Background:

This is the second phase of the Women’s Health and Family Planning Project, which operated from July 1995 to October 1998. The second phase has been renamed the Women’s Health and Family Welfare Project. By the end of this phase, the project will have covered all districts of West Nusa Tenggara and eight districts of East Nusa Tenggara.

An inception stage of this A$27.8 million project commenced in January 2000 and concluded in June 2001, followed by an interim stage from July 2001 to April 2002 in which limited activities were undertaken. Implementation phase commenced in July 2002 and will run until April 2006.

Description of Goals/Objectives:

The goal of the project is to contribute to improved health of women and children in the provinces of East and West Nusa Tenggara. This phase of the project aims to enable Government of Indonesia agencies and the local community to work together in partnership to identify and respond to problems of maternal and neonatal health and underlying gender issues. This approach builds on the approach of Phase I which focused on improvements in the quality and coverage of services, but has increased emphasis on capacity building and on community participation.

The project has four interrelated components:

Women’s Health Services, which will assist the GOI to improve the quality and accessibility of health care for women and their newborn infants in NTT and NTB.
Promotion of Family Planning and Safe Motherhood, which will improve the knowledge, attitudes and health seeking behavior of men and women for safer motherhood and family welfare, and the quality of family planning services, consistent with Australian Population Guidelines.
Community Participation, which will promote and facilitate community responses to safer motherhood.
Project Management and Integration, which will provide effective and efficient project coordination and management including integration of component activities with each other, with national and local systems and with other donors.

The GOI counterparts are the Ministry of Health (DepKes) and the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN). The provincial and district counterparts are: Bappeda (Regional Planning & Development Board), Dinas Kesehatan (Provincial & District Health Services), Kanwil BKKBN (Regional Office of BKKBN) and BPM/BPMD (Provincial & District Community Development Agency).

This page was last updated on 8 July 2004