District Investment Case
Project Progress :
Started Date:July 01 2013 Completed Date:March 30 2015
District Investment Case
Categories :Programme
CompletedStrategic and evidence-based problem solving approach to support better MNCH care
Introduction
The District Investment Case (DIC) is a strategic and evidence-based problem-solving approach to support better maternal, neonatal and child healthcare planning and budgeting. It highlights the urgent need to accelerate progress towards health related MDGs 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 by describing health problems prevalent in Nepal in the area of maternal newborn and child health. Using a bottleneck framework, DIC analysis was designed to identify barriers to better coverage and performance, and to calculate the costs and impacts of potential interventions to improve performance and overall equity. HERD provided TA to conduct DIC in Humla, Mugu, Dhanusha and Saptari.
Project Objectives
• To implement the investment case and facilitate decentralized planning, budgeting and management in seven UNICEF working districts
• To provide support for monitoring and supervision to the two districts to successfully implement the action plan developed by the districts in the previous phase and monitor the progress
