Health Pooled Fund to phase out as new era of nationwide health service delivery begins.

Juba – 13th June_ After 12 years of implementation, the Health Pooled Fund will phase out support to the provision of essential health service delivery on 30th June 2024, and transition into the Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) from the 1st of July 2024.

The Health Pooled Fund, which started in October 2012, was implemented through three phases in up to 8 States across South Sudan. It has supported millions of people in South Sudan by providing access to good quality basic health services and supporting the Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GRSS) to build the foundations for the provision of quality healthcare for its own people.

Led by the UK Government, jointly funded by the Governments of the United States, Canada, Sweden; the EU delegation, and GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, and delivered by a Fund Manager consortium led by Crown Agents and supported by Montrose, International Procurement Agency, as well as a number of NGO implementing partners.

“South Sudan is grateful for the contributions of the HPF over the last decade in supporting the government deliver lifesaving health services for our population across some of the most vulnerable and hard to reach parts of the country. The programme has been instrumental in delivering essential medicine and health supplies, training health workers and strengthening our fragile health system,” said Hon Yolanda Awel Deng, Minister of Health, South Sudan.

The new Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) establishes a nationwide health service delivery platform, led by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Bank and other donor partners. UNICEF and WHO will support the implementation of health service delivery and strengthening the health system respectively as managing organisations.

“We are excited to progress into this new phase of health service delivery across the whole nation through the HSTP - led and owned by the Government. We are aiming to have a more integrated, and strengthened national health system to improve the health and wellbeing of all men women and children, and tackle the health challenges we face today and, in the future,” said the Hon. Minister Yolanda Awel Deng.

The HSTP begins in July and is aiming to scale up to support 1158 health facilities across the 10 states and 3 administrative areas over the 3-year project lifetime.