Additional Financing Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Additional Financing for Argentina: COVID-19 Emergency Response Project - P177246 (English)

The proposed Additional Financing (AF) would support the scale-up of the scope of the parent project with new activities that contribute to the original PDO and enhance the impact of the Parent Project. [...] This component supports the capacity of the National Project Coordination Team under the Secretariat of Administrative Management and the technical directorates under the Secretariat of Health Access to coordinate activities with other areas under the National Ministry of Health NMOH, the 24 Provincial Ministries of Health, the National Immunization Commission and other entities, and to manage the [...] The allocation of financing to this component was increased to account for the expanded scope of the Project through the addition of vaccine purchase, training and technical assistance under Component 1 and the extension of the closing date. [...] Following the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Global Health Safety Agenda (GHSA), the GoA created the Commission for the Implementation and Monitoring of the IHR and Basic Capacities, in 2019, led by the NMOH to coordinate intra and intersectoral work, advise decision makers on the design of action plans related to the IHR, as well as facilitating coordination between non-gover [...] Under the Parent Project, the NMOH establishes Annual Implementation Commitments with the provinces, however one of the challenges of E&S management is the coordination with the E&S provincial counterparts, for which the AF is foreseeing the strengthening of that articulation facing the overloaded demand of the vaccination campaign in which the immunization sites are expanded and, accordingly, the