COVID-19 Support to PMRS 2016-2021

Expected results

PMRS' results framework 2013-2020 feeds into the National Health Strategy Goal: “State-building and health system and services strengthening to realize an effectively functioning health sector that facilitates implementation and the achievement of planned results in Palestine” National Health Objectives are: 1. Strengthen the governance and institutional development of the Ministry of Health (MoH). 2. Strengthen human resources in the health sector through improving the planning, management, training, education and financing of human resources. Facilitating a multi-professional contribution to better health and management in collaboration with other ministries, academia and other relevant stakeholders. 3. Promote healthy behaviors and improve disease prevention as upstream policy and practice in the Palestinian health system through advocacy, raising public awareness to change behavioral practices 4. Assure the rights of all citizens to access quality sustainable primary, secondary and tertiary health services, in particular primary health care, for the poor, vulnerable, and unemployed, as well as those displaced and/or living in hard to reach areas. 5. Maintain and strengthen public-private partnerships especially between MoH, UNRWA, NGOs and the private-for-profit sector to facilitate harmonization, coordination, and comprehensiveness of efforts. 6. Develop the role of the Ministry of Health in cross-sectoral work with other ministries and national institutions. . PMRS’s activity actively participates in each of the national health objectives, as PMRS has been developing health models and transferring them to other stakeholders including the MoH for years, and will continue to do so for the coming period. An example of transferred model is the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) one, developed by PMRS and ultimately adopted by the MoH. PMRS has been participating in joint training sessions with the MoH, in particular in the fields of Women’s Health and Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR). PMRS organizes public awareness sessions and regularly coordinates with the MoH about health messages and with the Ministry of Education (MoE) for the dissemination of health messages in schools. Moreover, PMRS was a pioneer in the development of a model on NCDs focusing on early detection and disease management and transferred it to the MoH. It is PMRS’s mission statement to contribute to guaranteeing access to primary health care for all Palestinians, especially the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalized. PMRS aims at complementing the government services in areas in which the Palestinian Authority (PA) is active and to continue and develop the provision of basic health care in Area C that falls out of the PA control and in Gaza where the blockade is affecting the capacity of the government to deliver proper quality services. East Jerusalem is also targeted by PMRS in terms of advocacy and raising awareness regarding health rights.  PMRS does contribute to the National Goal of strengthening the health system and the health sector in Palestine. PMRS' results framework 2013-2020 includes three goals with several outcomes and outputs per each goal. Sweden's assessment is that there are too many outcomes and outputs and many of these outcomes/outputs are general and ambitious. PMRS has developed a new strategy 2020-2015 which is more focused and realistic and aims at increasing the community approach in prompting health rights specifically Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).