MINISTRY OF HEALTH AGENCIES

Child Development Agency

1999-2000 KPMG also undertook a Strategic Review of Children’s Services. This formed the basis for a Cabinet decision to establish the Child Development Agency. The Child Development Agency will amalgamate the services of the Children’s Services Division, the Adoption Board and the Child Support Unit. The CDA will seek to improve the Management of children’s services in Jamaica and will execute the mandate of the Adoption of Children’s Act and the Juvenile Act, which will become the Child Care & Protection Act.

The CDA is created under the provisions of the Executive Agencies Act and became an Executive Agency on April 2003.

Implementation of the CDA has been occurring on a phased basis since the Cabinet decision to establish the agency in 2000.

In Phase 1 a Steering Committee comprising the MOH, CSD, CSU, Adoption Board and the Cabinet Office was set up to guide and monitor progress and process and the Special Envoy for Children, Ambassador Marjorie Taylor conducted briefing sessions with staff members and experts from overseas.

Phase 2 began in July 2001 with the recruitment of a Project Manager whose task was to work along with staff to enable the structural, organizational and operational changes that are required for delegation and smooth transition to agency status.
Among the activities over the past two years have been the development of:

• Organizational Structures,
• Financial procedures manual, job descriptions, staff training
• Human resources policies and procedures have been established
• Framework document prepared
• Business processes mapped and reengineered.

In December 2002, the Services Commission appointed the CDA’s Chief Executive Officer - Miss Alison Anderson. She was the Project Manager for the CDA and is a former Lecturer in the Department of Government at the UWI, hold masters degree in International Relations.

Registrar General’s Department RGD

The Registrar General’s Department is an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Health.

The Minister of Health appoints the Board of the RGD

Health Corporation LimitedHCL

Health Corporation Limited provides competitively priced, high quality pharmaceuticals and medical sundries to the public health sector. The Minister of Health appoints the Board of the HCL

National Council on Drug Abuse NCD

The NCDA promotes drug free lifestyles through seminars, leadership development and mass media. It utilizes an integrated Demand Reduction Approach designed to respond to the underlying identifiable causes that lead to the drug abuse problem in Jamaica. The Minister of Health appoints the Board of the NCDA

Pesticides Control Authority PCA

The Minister of Health appoints the Board of the PCA

National Family Planning Board NFP

The National Family Board (NFPB) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Health with responsibilities for activities that include setting policy direction, management and distribution of contraceptives supplies, promotion of family planning, development and dissemination of educational and other materials related to family planning.

National Health Fund NHF

The National Health Fund  was established by the Ministry of Health to provide financial support to the national health care system to improve its effectiveness and the health of the Jamaican population through two categories of benefits...

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