Technical Support

ABSTRACT German International Development Cooperation commissioned a needs assessment in Tanzania between March and July 2021 to identify BACKUP Health technical support areas to strengthen the country’s health systems. On 16 September 2021, BACKUP Health, in collaboration with the Tanzania National Coordinating Mechanism, organized a stakeholder workshop to validate the key results and recommendations of the needs assessment. The workshop participants, some of which attended face-to-face while others virtually, were government officials, representatives of bilateral and multilateral organizations, and civil society.

RÉSUMÉ Le 15 septembre 2021, BACKUP Health a organisé un atelier de parties prenantes en Ouganda en vue de valider les conclusions d’une évaluation des besoins et de discuter de la voie à suivre pour les domaines nécessitant une assistance technique. Parmi les participants, dont certains ont pris part en personne et d’autres virtuellement, figuraient des fonctionnaires publics, des représentants d’organismes bilatéraux et multilatéraux et de la société civile.

ABSTRACT On 15 September 2021, BACKUP Health organized a stakeholder’s workshop in Uganda to validate the findings of a needs assessment appraisal and discuss a way forward for areas requiring technical assistance. The workshop participants, some of which attended physically while others virtually, were government officials, representatives of bilateral and multilateral organizations, and civil society.

ABSTRACT GIZ has extended to 31 December 2015 the deadline for applications for technical assistance in its three main program areas: country coordinating mechanisms, health systems strengthening, and grant management.

ABSTRACT The US Government has awarded Management Sciences for Health a follow-on project to Grant Management Solutions. The project provides technical support to country coordinating mechanisms and principal recipients of Global Fund grants.

ABSTRACT The Health Systems Strengthening toolkit contains information on how countries can use funding from the Global Fund to support HSS activities, and on technical support providers that are available to assist applicants in developing proposals that address HSS.

ABSTRACT Aidspan has published a white paper which tackles two linked questions: What problems arise in the provision of adequate, timely, appropriate and effective technical support to projects financed by the Global Fund? And what can be done about these problems?

ABSTRACT The GTZ BACKUP Initiative has published a guide on where technical support for capacity development of Global Fund recipients is most needed, who is able to provide it, and how to make best use of it.

ABSTRACT Twenty global health leaders, implementers and advocates met recently for a two-day "Round Table" of informal discussion on how to ensure that implementers of Global Fund grants can have access to adequate and appropriate technical support, and what changes this might require in various forms of inter-agency collaboration.

ABSTRACT People in four countries in Asia and Africa provide candid opinions on issues regarding the provision of technical support to Global Fund grant implementers.