MLI/016
Basic Health Services Support Programme

This first large-scale project in the health sector under the Luxembourg bilateral Cooperation with Mali supports the national sector-based policy and the national basic healthcare support programme (PASAB). The activities concentrate on the area around Ségou and the county of Yorosso in the Sikasso region.

In collaboration with the other technical and financial partners of Mali, notably the UN agencies which are co-financed by the Luxembourg Cooperation, PASAB contributes to the implementation of the national development programme of socio-sanitation (PRODESS II). This support aims in particular to improve sanitary infrastructure by improving and restoring the technical support of communal health centres and by building new communal health centres in areas where none existed hitherto. The programme takes into account the specificities of healthcare centres with a large population by supporting their medicalisation and contributes to improvements in the quality of health services offered to the population.

Just like for the other interventions under the Indicative Cooperation Programme (ICP) 2007-2011, the modus operandi of this project will strengthen operational capacities of the institutions responsible for the implementation and management of basic healthcare by supporting them in their new responsibilities which have been conferred on them by the decentralisation process.