Appendix VI-L: GENDER ACTION PLAN

Activities Indicators and targets Responsibilitie Time frame

Output 1: Institutional governance and local government capacity to sustainably deliver PHC services strengthened
1a. Ensure women representation in Central level
permanent structure for administrating and
coordinating urban health and nutrition.
1b. All project ULBs have fully staffed and
functioning health departments
1c. Ensure computerized gender-responsive data
collection and analysis.
1g. Ensure gender sensitivity of the functional health
emergencies preparedness and response plan.
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-Capacity building of at least 20% women staff of PIU, PMU On-going
PIU&PMU on administering and coordinating urban
health-nutrition
-20% women staff trained on gender and program
management engaged in administering and
coordinating urban health and nutrition.
-Gender Coordination Committees are functional at
the city corporation and municipality levels.
-PIU staff-specific individual gender action plans in
line with overall GAP are developed and
implemented.
-At least one gender focal person included in each PIU, PMU By Year1
department and trained
-Gender responsive computerized HMIS data PMU By Year1-
management system in place in 80% partnership areas Year2
(PA).
-At least 2 (1 female and 1 male) staff from each Pas
is trained on use of the computerized system.
-Gender based data field focusing on PHCC, CRHCC
are developed and integrated in the electronic system.
-Plan highlights differential impact of disasters on PMU, PIU, PA, When plan
women’s health and strategies to address those. MoLGRDC, is developed
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Output 2: Accessibility, quality and utilization of urban PHC services improved with a focus on the poor, women and children through PPP
2a. Ensure 30% of urban health care services
including sexual and reproductive health provided
free-of-charge to identified poor.
2b. Ensure engagement of women workers/laborers in
facilities planned for construction and upgrading.
Ensure civil structures are gender friendly (women,
men, adolescents, elderly and differently abled)
2e. 100% of partnership area (PA) achieves internal
quality compliance including gender related targets
-100% poor female care seekers are attended. PA, UF, PMU From the
-Non-discrimination and gender sensitive environment date
created at the PHCC and CRHCC. contract is
effective
-Day care/ Creche facilities for working women
patients in place.
-Wheel chairs for patients are available in all the
PHCCs and CRHCCs.
-Adolescent couple and pre-marriage/immediately
after marriage counseling are participatory
-PHCC and CRHCC timing convenient for working
female working in factories located in urban areas.
-At least 2 awareness campaigns conducted to
community in target areas and promotional materials
developed and disseminated on continuous basis.
-Elder care/geriatric care through physiotherapy.
-ensure effective use of promotional materials to bring
gender-sensitive behavioral changes in beneficiaries
-Specific clause to engage women in construction PIU, PMU During the
work included in bid document. construction
-30% women laborers are engaged in construction and of facilities
upgrading work (12 CRHCCs and 26 PHCCs) with
equal wage for work of equal value as included in bid
documents.
- toilet, rest room for women engaged in construction
work -Ramp, railing, low high stairs constructed
-Privacy of the check-up rooms ensured
-PAs comply with gender related targets and PIU, PMU On-going
indicators as per DMF and GAP.
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Output 3: Effective support for decentralized project management provided
3a. Ensure gender sensitive deployment in PMUs that -20% of the staff are female in PMU and PIU of ULB; PMU, PIU, On-going
will be fully functional by loan effectiveness and PIUs -Gender Focal Point (GF) in each ULB; ULB-specific MoLGRDC
are established in ULBs GAP
3c. Ensure gender sensitivity of project monitoring & -Sex-disaggregated data collection, analysis and PMU As
reporting (quarterly and final). reporting. scheduled
3d. Each PIU trained on computerized financial -One female and one male staff receive training PMU On-going
management.
3e. Ensure gender responsive training on using HMIS -At least 1 person from PMU and 2 persons (one PMU On-going
for project monitoring and evaluation, and gender female) from each PIU.
responsive urban PHC.

PIU= Project Implementation unit, PMU: Project Management Unit, HMIS=Health Management Information System, PHCC=Primary
Health Center, CRHCC=Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Center, MoLGDRC=Ministry of Local Government, Rural
Development &Cooperatives, MoHFW=Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, UF=User Forum, ULB=Urban Local Bodies

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