General information

Title
Better Health and Wellbeing for all Cambodians
ID
XM-DAC-2-10-8152
CRS ID
2022008152
Start date
End date
Activity status
Implementation
Budget
€1.759.881
Actor
ITM Institute of Tropical Medicine ANTWERPEN - ANVERS
Country
CAMBODIA
Sector
Health - Non-communicable diseases (NCD) - Research for prevention and control of NCDs
Policy markers
Gender 1
Good Governance 1
Climate: Adaptation 1
Aid type
Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes
Fragile state
Yes
Least developed country
Yes
Budgetline
54 41 452539 Toelagen aan het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Finance type
GRANT
Tied status
No
Flow type
ODA
Body

General

The impact will be better health, well-being and healthy behaviour, better access to affordable, quality health service and financial protection. It will show that NIPH delivers evidence-based knowledge and provides high quality education. As an intermediate result, the capacity to conduct quality research will improve, local expertise through high quality education will augment, institutional capacity in knowledge translation to inform health and social protection policies will strengthen. Although Cambodia is developing economically, its population needs better equal access to good quality health services. Since 1998, ITM has partnered with two disease focus institutions and one hospital-based research group. They have developed well, but the need to address underlying structural barriers to more application of evidence-based health policies is still an issue. Therefore, the focus for this programme will shift to the national Institute of Public Health (NIPH). NIPH is our partner since 2017 and has the formal mandate to advise the government on health policies. The Institute represents the Ministry of Health in providing public health and laboratory services, training and research. And is tracking UHC and SDG3 related indicators for the National Social Protection Council. The aim of the programme is to contribute to better health and well-being for all Cambodians, especially the poor and vulnerable. We want to achieve this trough: 1. Developing the capacity of the NI...(+6 characters extra in FundHub text)

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