Sustaining the Gains through Regional Collaboration and Ensuring Global Fund investments have a lasting impact in the LAC region.
The Global Fund in collaboration with the LAC platform and the consortium members of the Caribbean Multi-Country Grant collaborated to convene this forum which will provide a space for dialogue, learning, planning and coordination among Caribbean regional stakeholders involved in Global Fund processes.
These stakeholders include:
- Members of Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) who represent communities affected by the three diseases as well as key and vulnerable populations from Belize, Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana and Suriname, Dominican Republic, Cuba as well as the OECS Regional Coordinating Mechanism.
- Members of Caribbean networks of key populations affected communities participating in multi-country Global Fund grant.
- National AIDS Programme (NAP) Managers.
- CSOs implementing grant activities.
- Partners involved in grant implementation or linked to regional processes and to the CRG SI, such as PANCAP/CVC/COIN, Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Caribbean Med Lad Foundation (CMLF), Cuban Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (CENESEX), CRN+.
- Other key development partners or technical agencies that invest in regional programmes especially in improving the participation of civil society and communities in the Global Fund processes (e.g., Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), PEPFAR.
- Global Fund Secretariat representatives linked to the Caribbean processes and to the CE SI.
The purpose of organizing a single forum with a common agenda is to maximize learning, coordination and synergies across the national and regional multi-country contexts and the Technical Assistance priorities. Further, this will be an opportunity for a more responsible use of the economic resources and added value for the participants.
Forum Objectives:
- To share experiences from the national programmes, civil society and communities’ participation and engagement in Global Fund-related processes in the Caribbean.
- Lessons learned from grant implementation and community participation experiences in the Caribbean.
- To identify challenges for the response to the HIV, TB and malaria in the Caribbean.
- To promote improved coordination among national programmes, development partners, civil society and communities and in their responses to HIV, TB and malaria across the Global Fund national and multi-country grants in the Caribbean, through sharing strategies and best practices as well as exchanging experiences.
- Review lessons learned from 2019-2022 grant implementation.
- Identify coordination and synergy opportunities between country grants and multi-country grants.
- Promote coordination with other stakeholders and partners in the region.
- To improve civil society and communities’ understanding of the Global Fund processes and that will have influence in the Caribbean.
- Global Fund Strategy for 2023-2028
- New Funding Model (NFM4).
- Community Engagement minimum expectations
- Requirements related to protection against sexual exploitation, assault and harassment.
- To help improving access to technical assistance opportunities provided by the CE SI Technical Assistance Program and other Global Fund-related TA providers.