African Business Leaders on Health GBC Conference on TB, HIV-TB Co-infection & Global Fund Partnership Johannesburg, 11-13 October 2010 Technical Assistance.

African Business Leaders on HealthGBC Conference on TB, HIV-TB Co-infection & Global Fund Partnership

Johannesburg, 11-13 October 2010

Technical Assistance for grant Implementation

Paul Nunn

Technical Assistance elements Political will Early case detection, treatment,

secure drug supplies, M&E, ensured finance (the DOTS strategy)

TB/HIV, M/XDR-TB, vulnerable populations

Health system strengthening, based on primary health care

Engage all care providers Empower people with TB and

communities Enable research and development

Technical Assistance functions Assessment – define the gaps, priorities, and

risks, Strategic planning, Improvement of national norms & policies, Mobilization of resources – capacity building,

proposal writing, meeting GF requirements, Management – including mobilising and

managing TA.

What TBTEAM is

A platform for coordination of technical assistance to countries Global coalition of the Stop TB Partnership coordinated, hosted

and administered by the Stop TB Department of WHO 70 established National TBTEAMs (Requesting TA from within

existing national coordination body) 35 partners Financial support: USG (through USAID), WHO core funds,

Spain, UNDP, Gates, Sweden Global Fund TB grant related support:

• Proposal preparation, 50+ countries per round• Grant negotiation, implementation, 2007-2010, 350+ missions

Inclusion of corporate sector

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Partners, including the corporate sector can be included at any level

1. National TBTEAM 2. Regional TBTEAM

through identifying TA needs and plans

3. Global TBTEAM

through funding and providing expertise for all technical areas

TBTEAM Functions

National TBTEAM

• Identifies TA needs and gaps at country level ensuring these needs are met through TA planning and coordination based on sound technical discussion by all partners

Regional TBTEAM

• Supports country capacity • Encourages countries to develop and upload national TA plans •Enters and updates the TBTEAM website, check validity and accuracy of data

Global

• Enables access through web platform• Encourages collaboration• Promotes available expertise and facilitates planning for TA according to needs• Complements Regional and National TBTEAM, which take the lead on partner coordination, TA planning and identification of funding for TA

Operating at 3 levels

TBTEAM enables:

Better control over technical assistance mission planning

Ability to track missions and view possible scheduling conflicts in countries

National partners to view technical assistance plans and engage in process

Global partners to better coordinate missions Access to quality expertise

TA needs from standpoint of TB community

TA that addresses limited capacity at national level, even to define and mobilize TA (short term and long term),

Larger, more locally qualified, corps of consultants trained to provide TA,

Sufficient funding of proposal preparation, More focus on grant negotiation, implementation

support, and national capacity building, More clarity on HSS and TB specific roles, eg in finance,

procurement, M&E, research, Better communication between GF and countries, WHO,

partners.

Be part of TBTEAM

http://www.stoptb.org/countries/tbteam/

Contact us directly [email protected]

From Monday October 18