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3.1.3 Categorization of Impacts
To facilitate identification and assessment of impacts, typical project activities, to be
implemented under the laboratory construction and upgrading of the Regional Health
Systems Strengthening and TB Support Project were broadly categorized into the
following project phases:
planning and design;
construction and rehabilitation;
operation and maintenance and.
decommissioning and closure.
Activities in each of the project phases listed above will have environmental and
social consequences on the different environmental components such as landscape,
soils, vegetation, water resources, air quality, ecosystems, and the socio-economy.
Table 3.1 relates the four project phases to the environmental components.
3.2 ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS
3.2.1 Generic Positive Impacts
Most of the impacts of the Regional Health Systems Strengthening and TB Support
Project will be positive and will generally impact on the socioeconomic component at
the global, regional and national level. The participating regional countries will benefit
from direct positive impacts in the areas of improved health and the associated
socio-economic development. Key positive impacts of the project will be major and
long term and will include the following:
1. Improvement of Health in Participating Countries
The project will contribute to improvement of health in participating countries
through increase in provision of and access to improved health care and
laboratory services to patients.
2. Contribution to Global and Regional Health Objectives
The project will contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goal Number 6 (Combating HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases), and
more specifically to the global targets to “reduce the prevalence and death rates
associated with TB” and to increase the “proportion of TB cases detected and
cured”.
3. Increase in TB Case Detection and Treatment Success Rates
Improving the accuracy and turnaround time of TB diagnostic techniques will
contribute to increase in case detection and treatment success rates, as TB
infectious individuals will be placed on correct treatment in the early stages.
4. Complementing other TB Programmes
By focusing on diagnostic capacities, the project will complement initiatives of
other donors financing scale-up of TB treatment, including improved access to
MDR-TB treatment. Combination of these efforts will contribute to the overall
reduction in TB burden and transmission rates.
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