Project profile — Rural Medical Equipment and Contraceptives

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Basic health care (12220) (75.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Family planning (13030) (25.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The Rural Medical Equipment and Contraceptives project aims to address development challenges relating to health, such as issues of infant, child, and maternal mortality. In providing standard packages of medical equipment, and supplies of contraceptives to be made available free-of-charge from national family planning services, this project helps ensure the availability of the resources necessary to support and improve basic social services in Ethiopia. In this multi-donor initiative, CIDA contributed funds used to purchase necessary medical equipment and contraceptives. The World Bank administers this project as part of a larger multi-donor initiative, while specialized agencies (UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund) are responsible for the procurement and distribution of medical equipment and supplies. All CIDA disbursements have been made towards this project.

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End of project results to which CIDA contributed to as of December 2010 include the purchase and distribution of 21.1 million doses of long-lasting injectable contraceptives for women, and 13.3 million doses of other types of women’s contraceptives; and equipment for 7,000 health posts and 1,999 health centers. Project activities contributed to improved child survival and maternal health in Ethiopia through enhanced access to improved basic health services.

• Proactive disclosure