USAID Bangladesh Health Strategy Document
This document explains how USAID/Bangladesh’s Office of Population, Health and Nutrition (OPHN) will support resilient health systems that deliver quality, equitable health services with the purpose of improving the health status of Bangladeshis.
Introduction/Strategy Development Process
This strategy considers the health system holistically, and articulates where, within that system, OPHN will focus interventions in order to have the greatest impact on our goal above. This strategy does not include everything OPHN will do; rather it outlines major areas of strategic interest. OPHN will have additional sub-strategies, for example in nutrition, or in tuberculosis (TB), which will flow from this strategy. While developing the strategy, OPHN considered: 1) areas where health system performance is weakest, 2) opportunities to improve health systems performance, and divisional or national level population health outcomes, through USAID programming, 3) coordination with other USAID offices, donors, and Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (GOB) interventions, 4) whether the proposed area of intervention is within USAID’s manageable interest and comparative advantage, 5) innovative opportunities to leverage other funding (Development Partners (DP), Private Sector Engagement, and Domestic Resource Mobilization).
