 Infrastructure & Medical Equipment: Improve the availability and quality of health infrastructure and medical equipment. Objective 3 attempts to ensure existing health facilities are of sufficient quality and properly equipped to address their specified health care requirements and to increase the proportion of the population of Malawi living within 8km of a health facility.  Human Resources: Improve availability, retention, performance and motivation of human resources for health for effective, efficient and equitable health service delivery. Objective 4 focuses on improving the absorption and retention rate of health workers in the public health sector while also achieving an equitable distribution.  Medicines & Medical Supplies: Improve the availability, quality and utilization of medicines and medical supplies. Objective 5 focuses on improving the efficiency of the supply chain for medicines and medical supplies to ensure the availability of the EHP.  Health Information Systems: Generate quality information and make it accessible to all intended users for evidence-based decision-making, through standardized and harmonized tools across all programmes. Objective 6 focuses on improving and harmonizing data collection and management at all levels of the health system, through improving ICT capacity, data protocols and linkages between levels.  Governance: Improve leadership and governance across the health sector and at all levels of the health care system. Objective 7 focuses on improving communication and strengthening Health Sector Strategic Plan II coordination in the health sector particularly with the goal of reducing duplication and fragmentation in the health sector. 23