Report of the Final Evaluation of Health Sector Development Programme

This report presents the outcome of an evaluation of the three year Health Sector Development Programme (HSDP) II (Ethiopian Calendar 1995-1997). It builds on the previous evaluation of HSDP I (March 2003), two Joint Review Missions (JRM) and three Annual Review Meetings (ARM). It incorporates new initiatives like the introduction of the Health Services Extension Programme (HSEP), the Accelerated Expansion of Primary Health Care in Ethiopia (2005-2009), the development of the Essential Health Services Package (EHSP) and the elaboration of a Child Survival Strategy. It also takes other developments into account, like the efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, the new Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP Oct 2005), the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia to seek improved alignment of donors and donor efforts of harmonisation as among others reflected in numerous studies and the recently proposed Protection of Basic Services (PBS) Programme.