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African Business Leaders on Health
GBC 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
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
 Operating at 3 levels
National TBTEAM
Regional TBTEAM
Global
• Identifies TA needs
• Supports country
capacity
• Encourages countries
to develop and upload
national TA plans
•Enters and updates the
TBTEAM website,
check validity and
accuracy of data
• 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
and gaps at country
level ensuring these
needs are met
through TA planning
and coordination
based on sound
technical discussion
by all partners
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