KOMPAS - Kosovo Comprehensive Approach to Health System Strengthening

About this project

The project seeks to strengthen key building blocks of the system (pandemic prevention, prepardness and response (PPR)/public health, service delivery, and health financing), as well as develop a cross-cutting integrated health information system that will support all of these building blocks. The building blocks were selected based on their importance for strengthening inputs and processes to quality of care, for the ultimate goal of improving the health status of the population, gaps in the current situation in Kosovo, and the World Bank's comparative advantage. The PPR/public health interventions will focus on two critical areas of PPR, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)) which, unlike most other PPR interventions, have a direct impact on the quality of clinical care in Kosovo. Service delivery interventions include strengthening quality assurance and quality management capacity and utilization, improving the technical base for health service delivery, and improving health care waste management, which is also related to reducing HAI. Health financing interventions will enhance the ability to conduct strategic purchasing of high-quality services. The focus on information systems is a cross-cutting issue that is essential to all other aspects of the project since they all rely on improved collection and sharing of health information.Kosovo has made considerable progress over the past decades but continues to face social, economic, and…

Published by

World Bank · Multilateral

Countries

Kosovo

Sectors

Multi-hazard response preparednessBasic health infrastructureMedical services

Places

Pristina

Funded by

International Development Association

Implemented by

Ministry of Health

Accountable

Republic of Kosovo

Passes funds through

International Development Association

Published by World Bank to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 3 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 44000-P179831.

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