Guinea-Bissau - Emergency Assistance to Support the Guinea-Bissau Preparedness and Response Plan to Fight the Zika Virus Outbreak

Project Summary

Approval Date	08 Sep 2016
Signature Date	22 Feb 2017
Planned Completion Date	31 Dec 2018
Last Disbursement Planned Date	31 Dec 2018
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Social
DAC Sector Code	12110
Commitment	U.A 737,001.14
Status	Completion

Project General Description

The present Emergency Assistance project is to support Guinea Bissau to implement their Preparedness and Response plan, which aims at strengthening the country capacity to detect and adequately respond to Zika, and other mosquito-borne viral diseases. This funding will complement the efforts of government and other partners to mobilize and involve all sectors, including civil society and communities to develop a coordinated and effective response to the outbreak. The plan has six (6) major components focusing on preparedness, detection, response, monitoring and research. The plan will be jointly implemented in collaboration with key technical and operational partners led by the WHO. In addition, research institutions will actively participate in generating the relevant scientific information and evidence to guide public health response. It will be implemented within a period of one year for a total cost of US$ 2,300,000. Given that other partners will contribute to the financing of this plan, the Banks assistance under this project will be limited to 1 million US$ for the following three (3) components: (i) Strengthening legislation, coordination and social empowerment. (ii) Strengthen prevention and preparedness for timely detection. (iii) Strengthen response to Zika virus and other arbovirus outbreaks.

Project Objectives

The ultimate goal of this project is to strengthen Guinea Bissau’s capacity to prevent, detect, control and strengthen response towards Zika virus disease outbreak and other mosquito-borne viral diseases. Specifically, the project will seek to scale up the implementation of IDSR at the national and regional levels in order to fulfil IHR requirements. This will be achieved through strengthening of surveillance, laboratory, response capacities at each level of the health system. The project will also support the implementation of the National Preparedness, Response and Recovery Plan.

Beneficiaries

The beneficiary of the project is the Government of Guinea Bissau.

Participating Organization

Funding

Special Relief Funds

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-GW-IB0-004
Last Update	01 Feb 2023

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Contact Details

Name	SANOGO Ibrahim
Email	i.sanogo@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Guinea-Bissau

Coordinates	Location Name
12 -15	Guinea-Bissau

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Grant Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	Other Technical Assistance

Commitments

U.A 737,001

Special Relief Funds

U.A 737,001.14

Disbursements

Document Type	Language	Document
Appraisal report	en	Guinea-Bissau - Proposal for a Grant of US 1 million for Emergency Assistance to Support Guinea-Bissau Preparedness and Response Plan to Fight the Zika Virus Outbreak APRV

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value
Number of cases of microcephaly	Per 10000 cases	2016	95
Number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome	Per 1000 cases	2016	0,24
Alert cases responded to within 24 hours of notification	%	2016	100
Suspected cases notified within 24 hours	%	2016	100
Number of suspected Zika cases	Number	2016	0
Free toll number fully functional	Number	2016	1
Percentage of workers trained	%	2016	50
Number of coordination meetings	Number	2016	24
Number of timely situation reports produced	Number	2016	12
Number of Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs), insecticide spraying equipment (IRS, larviciding), supplies distributed	Number	2016	70
Number of staff trained	Number	2016	30
Number of staff trained - of whom women	Number	2016	15
National plan for implementation of Integrated Vector Management (IVM) with a gender perspective	Number	2016	1
Integrated Vector Management (IVM) manual	Number	2016	1
Health workers trained in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Task Force (RMNCH) and Zika case management	%	2016	80
Number of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials produced and distributed	Number	2016	100000
Number of training materials distributed	Number	2016	5000
Number of health workers trained for psychosocial support	Number	2016	50
Number of health workers trained for psychosocial support - of whom women	Number	2016	25
Number of Rapid Response Team (RRT) member trained	Number	2016	66
Number of Rapid Response Team (RRT) member trained - of whom women	Number	2016	20
Simulation participants	None	2016	A simulation report with key gaps & recommendations and action plan identified
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework and Plans	Number	2016	1