ANGLOPHONE AFRICA CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS REGIONAL MEETING
Maximizing Civil Society and Community groups engagement in Global Fund Funding Request development and implementation.
Background
The Global Fund Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE SI) seeks to strengthen the engagement of communities most affected by the three diseases in Global Fund processes. It does so through three mutually reinforcing components that include:
- The provision of short term peer-to-peer technical assistance to community and civil groups and organizations.
- The provision of long-term capacity development interventions to organizations and networks of key and vulnerable populations.
- The regular and timely provision of relevant HIV, TB and Malaria information to communities through existing regional platforms, which strengthen community knowledge and coordination in Global Fund and related processes and improve access to short term technical assistance
The CE SI supports the engagement of communities and civil society actors at all stages of the Global Fund grant life cycle, and is critical in the design, development and implementation of effective responses to the three diseases and system strengthening, as it ensures that Global Fund investments evolve as responsive to those most impacted.
Meeting Objectives
The meeting is set to address the following core objectives:
Maximize opportunities for the meaningful engagement of civil society and communities, identifying country technical assistance needs with a focus on supporting community, rights and gender interventions in national strategic plans and in Global Fund funding request.
Program
The 3-day participatory workshop will adopt a blend of learning and sharing approaches including but not limited to experience sharing, questions and answers sessions, plenary presentations and discussions, group work and reporting sessions and panel presentations and discussions.
Participation to the workshop will be in-person, with the possible virtual/online participation of some of the speakers/sessions’faciliators.
