Monconsult Ltd in association with GOPA Worldwide Consultants GmbH (Germany) was contracted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) to undertake a consulting assignment to Ministry of Health for Improving access to health services for disadvantaged groups. 

The investment program has the following four objectives:
(i) Strengthen urban and rural primary health care: The project will establish 10 gender and client-friendly family health centers (FHCs) providing expanded health services to target populations in Ulaanbaatar, and six gender and client-friendly soum health centers (SHCs) in selected aimags to strengthen PHC.
(ii) Strengthen district and aimag hospital services: The project will establish a model, gender-sensitive district hospital in Chingeltei district, and upgrade Khan Uul district hospital in Ulaanbaatar by functionally linking in- and outpatient services for surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, and other disciplines
(iii) Strengthen health financing system: The project will strengthen the capacity of health staff and streamline health services by establishing a program for service quality monitoring, and policy coordination for a strategic purchasing model involving the health insurance organization, MOF and MOH.
(iv) Strengthen procurement and financial management capacity of government health entities: The Project will support a continuous capacity building program for procurement, financial, and risk management procedures for the government entities.

According to the objectives of this project, Monconsult Ltd has been supporting the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ulaanbaatar City Health Department (UCHD) with their efforts to improve both access to and quality (effectiveness and efficiency) of Primary Health Care services delivered at Family Health Centers (FHCs), Soum Centers and District Health Centers through reforms in a service organization, financing, human resource, and quality management, ensuring linkage to care though the integration of services, public-private partnership thus, increasing coverage, access, and utilization of health services, especially for disadvantaged groups.