Thursday, July 2, 2009

Cooperation with Global Fund: Support Mechanisms for African States

Highlight:
“Solutions must be sustainable on both financial and capacity grounds”

Challenges faced in investing in African States:

  • Lack of strategic interactions and dialogue between Global Fund and PCB members from the African States.
  • Effective participation constrained mostly by language issue.

Way forward:
• Improve communication.
• Regional Consultation to ensure effective involvement of the African States.
• Increased number of delegations from African region in the PCB.
• Availability documents in French.

El Salvador with its constituents from Central America addressed that apart from French, the documents of PCB should also be translated into Spanish, considering more than 500 million people in the world speaks Spanish.

The NGO Delegates from Africa supported the decision points made, but still need more details on how the Regional Consultation will have meaningful involvement of the CSOs. It was also addressed that the national and regional processes need to continue to uphold the meaningful involvement of CSOs.

Global Fund explained that a policy paper is currently in the developing stage and will be presented in the meeting in September. Incorporated in the policy paper are option for funding, focal points and several of other inputs.

Decision points:
• Establish a position for an independent communication focal point at the P3 level.
• Provide support and funding for 4 [four] Regional Consultation Meetings.
• Fund the participation of 52 delegates to the meeting.
• Provide funding for 5 [five] additional delegates from Africa to the PCB meeting.
• Implement the efficient and effective mechanisms to translate all governance documents from English to French.

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