Harmonization: What has worked and what has not Towards a set of recommendations

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HarmonizationWhat has worked and what has not
Towards a set of recommendations
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GTT Harmonization and Alignment Recommendations

• Align support to national strategies, policies,
  systems, cycles and annual priority AIDS action
  plans.

• National Fiscal Cycles
• National Policies and Systems
• National Strategies
• Joint Annual Reviews
• Clarifying NAC Relationships with other
  coordinating bodies (CCMs, UN Theme Groups, Donor
  and NGO Partner Fora, etc.)

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GTT Harmonization Recommendations

• Multilaterals and partners should move to
• (a) project to programme financing
• (b) harmonize and coordinate programming,
  financing, and reporting.

• Relevant sub-recommendations
• Piloting of joint fiduciary assessments
• Identification of bottlenecks in grant
  implementation
• Improved GF-WB information sharing
• Identification of procurement and supply
  bottlenecks

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GTT Harmonization Recommendations

• What has worked reasonably well
• Harmonization of well defined and
  discrete/vertical programmes
• Harmonization where there exist well articulated
  and costed strategies
• Joint/shared assessments and reviews
• Coordination of assistance for PSM
• Strong National Leadership
• Joint planning and coordination (PSM, ME, TS,
  ASAP)
• What has not worked as well
• Harmonizing when complex National Strategic
  Frameworks are not costed
• Coordinated articulation of technical assistance
  requirements
• Rationalization of PSM requirements
• Donor reporting requirements and the attribution
  of results

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Recommendations

• More predictable funding cycles
• Increased flexibility in timing of key grant
  events Phase 2 in particular
• Costed prioritized national action plans
• Further work needed on harmonizing reporting
  requirements
• More work on ratiuonalizing CCMs with other
  coordination bodies