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Secretary general of the Health Ministry, Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha, agreed to the 2022–2023 Biennium Grant Agreement in Bali province on Saturday (May 14, 2022). (ANTARA/HO-Health Ministry/uyu) - 

The Indonesian Health Ministry's Secretary General Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha and World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Indonesia N. Paranietharan agreed to the 2022–2023 Biennium Grant Agreement in Bali province on Saturday. The secretary general delivered the information in a statement on Saturday. The agreement health cooperation will serve as a reference for the establishment of a budget plan for a work program of the ministry, he added.

Meanwhile, the budget plan program will act as a grant agreement between WHO Indonesia and grant recipients, which are the technical units at the ministry. It will also be the basis for registering grant permits in accordance with the Finance Minister’s Regulation Number 99 of 2017 and the Health Minister’s Regulation Number 55 of 2017.

"The collaboration will support various strategic activities to implement health sector transformation with good accountability," Nugraha said.

The cooperation between the ministry and WHO Indonesia is being implemented according to the WHO Country Cooperation Strategy, which is synergized with the country’s Mid-Term National Development Program (RPJMN), he informed.

Hence, the current agreement will implement the activities outlined in the Joint Work Plan of the Indonesian Health Ministry and WHO Indonesia for the WHO Program Budget 2022–2023 to support the implementation of the WHO 13th General Program of Work, Indonesia’s 2020–2024 RPJMN, as well as the transformation pillars of the ministry.

He noted that the technical cooperation of the two parties began with the signing of the Basic Agreement in 1951, which was renewed in 1958.

Currently, the ministry is carrying out a health sector transformation, which covers primary services, secondary services, resilience system, financing system, human resources, as well as technology, the secretary general added.

Furthermore, he lauded WHO Indonesia for supporting various health sector development programs in the country, including for handling the pandemic.

He said he expected that the collaboration will be strengthened and continue to be implemented in accordance with applicable regulations.

"Thus, it is necessary to carry out continuous monitoring and evaluation to maintain the sustainable improvement (of the programs)," he added//ANT