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UNICEF technical assistance to the GFATM
supported projects implemented in EAP region
East Asia and the Pacific regional MeetingBali,
Indonesia, 3-5 September 2007Dr. Ider
Dungerdorj, HIV/AIDS Specialist, UNICEF Mongolia
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Main areas of UNICEF technical support to the
Global Fund supported projectsUNICEF HIV/AIDS
Information Note, March 2002

• Actively participate in the CCM and encourage
  priority consideration for child- and
  adolescent-focussed actions
• Provide technical support for the development of
  good quality proposals in the areas responding to
  UNICEF MTSP priorities
• Strengthen systems and capacities to monitor and
  report on the implementation and results of
  GFATM-funded activities.
• Make necessary adjustments to the UNICEF country
  programme to better facilitate the successful
  implementation of activities to be scaled up with
  support from the GFATM.
• Provide of procurement services to the Principal
  Recipients

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Area 1. Actively participate in the CCM and
encourage priority consideration for child- and
adolescent-focussed actions

• UNICEF is actively involved in the formation and
  operationalisation of CCMs and Technical expert
  groups under CCM
• Provided technical assistance to Governments in
  the development of CCM TORs/ Guidelines and
  defining the roles and responsibilities of CCMs
  and it's individual members
• Supported partnership development around national
  AIDS programmes and national strategic planning
  processes
• Advocated for direct participation of youth in
  HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes, life
  skills education and inclusion of traditional and
  religious leaders in GFATM processes

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Area 2. Provide technical support for the
development of good quality proposals in the
areas responding to UNICEF MTSP priorities

• Almost all UNICEF Country Offices in EAP region
  participated in the development of the Global
  Fund proposals starting from R1 to R7, including
  on-going RCC.
• Mobilised in-country and external technical
  assistance and provided technical support to
  national institutions in the areas of PMCT, OVC,
  VCT, Life Skills Based Education, Behaviour
  Change Communication.
• Some of our staff members were seconded or they
  spent considerable amount of their time (up to
  50) for the proposal development process

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Area 3. Strengthen systems and capacities to
monitor and report on the implementation and
results of GFATM-funded activities.

• Supported PRs for common approaches to monitoring
  and evaluation, national plans and coordinating
  mechanisms in line with the Three Ones principle
• Supported PRs and SRs for data collection,
  analysis and timely reporting to the CCM and
  GFATM
• UNICEF is Sub-Recipient in Mongolia
• Organised joint monitoring and evaluation field
  visits to the project implementing sites

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Area 4. Adjustments to the UNICEF country
programme to better facilitate the successful
implementation of activities to be scaled up with
support from the GFATM.

• UNICEF country offices started to adjust their
  HIV/AIDS programmes in order to avoid
  duplication and overlapping of efforts
  concentrating more on gaps which are not covered
  by the GFATM supported projects
• Recourse mobilization from other external and
  internal UNICEF sources is actively undertaken to
  ensure additionally and sustainability of GFATM
  projects

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Area 5. Provision of procurement services

• Country Offices are providing procurement
  services to Principal Recipients for ARVs, STI
  drugs, tests and malaria-related commodities
• UNICEF provides support in improving logistics
  and supply chain
• Procurement statistics EAPRO region procurement
  services for GF ATM, HIV/AIDS and Malaria
  Medicines and Diagnostics,
• Jan-July 2007

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Challenges

• Proposal development is a collective effort, but
  not actual implementation, coordination,
  monitoring and evaluation
• UNICEF and other UN agencies are playing role of
  rescue forces in times of crisis
• Absorptive capacity of PRs and SRs remains to be
  weak and it might negatively affect the overall
  implementation
• Human resource availability of PRs is still scant
  resulting in the increased overload of
  Government staff and they tend to concentrate on
  GFATM supported projects but other ones

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Recommendations

• As per agreement between GFATM/UNICEF/WHO
  collaboration should focus on one or two poor
  performing countries where the technical skills
  of the three organisations would be used to
  demonstrate success in overcoming the identified
  barriers.
• Children and adolescents affected or made
  vulnerable by HIV/AIDS should be specifically
  identified as target groups in the GFATM
  proposals
• Technical support should be provided to CCM in
  order to strengthen its role, coordination/integra
  tion with national programmes, supervision and
  monitoring of implementation
• Capacity building of PRs and SRs should be an
  integral part of the proposal and the
  implementation as well as ME process

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