An Assessment Tool for Public Procurement Agencies in Health Sector in India
The Government of India (GoI) under its common minimum program is enhancing central funding to states for effective delivery of essential health services to underserved populations residing in the rural areas of the country. Flexible financing is b...
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| Format: | Other Health Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/02/16257751/assessment-tool-public-procurement-agencies-health-sector-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12387 |
| Summary: | The Government of India (GoI) under its
common minimum program is enhancing central funding to
states for effective delivery of essential health services
to underserved populations residing in the rural areas of
the country. Flexible financing is being provided to states
under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to develop
locally relevant strategies to improve service delivery and
implement evidence-based interventions to enhance health
outcomes of centrally sponsored schemes in the health
sector. Such rapid scaling-up of central allocations for
different health sector schemes will involve massive
procurement of health sector goods by the states and
districts that have capacity constraints to undertake health
sector procurement The NRHM framework notes that continued
central procurement is not a solution and proposes a phased
decentralization of procurement to states and districts.
This note supports the approach of phased decentralization
through development of an assessment tool for systematically
identifying the procurement capacity constraints at state level. |
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