Building Capacity of Civil Society

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Building Capacity of Civil Society

• Why the Global Fund invest in Civil Society

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Community Systems Strengthening Why?

• Implementation is challenged by capacity gaps at
  community level
• Going to scale requires efforts to turn the need
  existing at community level into demand and
  access to services
• Civil Society Organisations are the Global Funds
  most effective implementation partners
• To scale up involvements CSOs often need
• Physical infrastructure development office
  space, communications technology
• Organisational systems development financial
  management, strategic planning, M E,
  information management capacities

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Community Systems Strengthening and Dual Track
financing

• CSS includes initiatives that contribute to the
  development and or strengthening of CBOs in
  order to improve knowledge, skills and capacity.
• Specifically to achieve improved outcomes for
  HIV, TB and Malaria prevention, care, treatment
  and support.
• Dual Track Financing is the routine inclusion of
  a non government Principle Recipient in proposals
  to the Global Fund. If a proposal does not
  include both government and non government PRs,
  it should contain an explanaition of the reason
  for this.

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Long Term Sustainability

• How can we insure governments continue developing
  relationships with Civil Society that they have
  often entered into reluctantly?
• How can we support Civil Society organisations in
  understanding and managing the impact increased
  funding will have?
• How do we manage the changing paradigm as more
  Civil Society Organisations become part of the
  development bureacracy?

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• Thank You
• Mick Matthews
• Senior Civil Society Officer
• The Global Fund
• Mick.matthews_at_theglobalfund.org