Preparation of Public Assignment in the Health Sector in Astrakhan Oblast

Client: Ministry of Health of Astrakhan Oblast

Project Manager: Natalia Barbashova

Project Duration: November – December 2009

The purpose of the project is to improve the current and develop a new regulatory and methodological framework for Astrakhan Oblast pertaining to the preparation of public assignment in the health sector as well as the implementation of the developed methodology in the course of formulation of model public assignments for individual health institutions.

The assignments under the project include the following:

• prepare a list of public services rendered by state health institutions of Astrakhan Oblast,


• develop a list of quality standards for public services rendered by health institutions contained in federal and Oblast regulatory legal acts;


• provide methodological assistance to the Astrakhan Oblast Ministry of Health regarding the development of a public assignment for rendering public services by pilot health institutions of Astrakhan Oblast.