| General Information |
Project/Program |
Project |
| Project Name |
The Project for Human Resource Development of Co-medicals |
| Duration |
Exchange of Note Date: September 2003, Project Completion Date: September 2008 |
| Donor |
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) |
| Implementiong Organization |
Technical School for Medical Care (TSMC), Human Resource Development Department (HRDD) of Ministry of Health (MoH) Cambodia, Regional Training Centre (RTC) |
| Sector and/or Subsector Classification |
Health |
| Region |
The four Regional Training Centers (RTCs) are located in Battambang, Kampong Cham, Komport, and Stung Treng. |
| Financing |
513 million yen |
| Analytical Information |
Stakeholders |
Japan International Cooperation Agengy (JICA), Technical School for Medical Care (TSMC), University of Health Science (UHS), Human Resource Development Department (HRDD) of Ministry of Health (MoH) Cambodia, Regional Training Centre (RTC), St. Mary's Hospital, International Medical Center of Japan |
| Cross-cutting Issue |
Environment |
No environment related materials are mentioned in completion report. |
| Gender |
No gender related materials are mentioned in completion report. |
| Impact Analysis |
The project is highly relevant with Cambodia's development policy, "improving quality of health personnel and reforming human resource development system" as set in the Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSP1) 2003-2007 and HSP2 2008-2015, and National Health Workforce Development Plan (NHWDP) 1996-2005 and the second NHWDP 2006-2015. Also, the project is consistent to the development needs of improvement of quality of teaching and school management and increase of productivity of co-medical professionals. |
| Effectiveness |
Ownership/Partnership |
Evaluation |
Implementing organizations, Technical School for Medical Care (TSMC), University of Health Sciences (UHS), Regional Training Centers (RTCs) and Human Resource Development Department (HRDD), have actively participated in the project, working and discussing together to further update curricula after the project completion. |
| Rating |
4/5 |
| Policy Coherence/Harmonization |
Evaluation |
No information regarding policy coherence and harmonization |
| Rating |
N.A. |
| Evaluation Framework |
Evaluation |
No information regarding evaluation framework |
| Rating |
N.A. |
| Alignment/Composition of Finance |
Evaluation |
While the inputs were mostly appropriate for producing the outputs of the project, and the project period was within the plan (ratio against the plan: 100%), the project cost was slighly exceeded the plan (ratio agianst the plan: 105%) because the number of experts increased and the counterpart training in Japan was implemented although it was not planned at the time of ex-ante evaluation.
In the regard of the sustainability of the project, the ex-post evaluation report rated the sustainability fair, since there are some problems in institutional and financial aspects. Institutionally, a problem has been observed in the number of staff. The number of teaching and management staff at TSMC is sufficient, except insufficient number of teachers in RT course. And the number of teaching and management staff in RTSc in not sufficient. Financially, although the budget for TSMC is sufficient for school operation with the income from admission fees and subsidy from the government, the current budget does not cover the additional expenses requried for updating curricula, syllabi and edcuation meterials. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Other Remarks |
Related Projects are following. 1) Project on Promotion of Medical Equipment Management System (Technical Cooperation, 2006-2008); 2) Project for Improving Maternal and Child Health Service in Rural Areas (Technical Cooperation, 2007-2010); 3) Third Country Training on teaching method in nursing in Malaysia (15 counterparts of this project were trained) (2003-2005). |
