An orientation meeting was organised by NAPHAM, MANET+ and Policy Project on June 15, 2005 at Kalikuti Hotel, Lilongwe to inform the NAPHAM and MANET+ members about the PLHIV CCM Handbook, its relevance to the PLHIV participation in the Global Fund and Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs).

History

The Global Fund focuses on fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria by providing additional resources to countries most in need like Malawi. While PLHIV are at the centre of the pandemic, there has been inadequate meaningful involvement, representation and participation of the PLHIV constituency. PLHIV identified the existing gaps and engaged in bringing about positive redress. One of the substantive products to the said endeavors is the PLHIV CCM Handbook (Challenging, Changing and Mobilizing), a guide that improves the greater involvement of PLHIV in CCMs which are governance structures at country level for the Global Fund.

Overview of CCMs

Principles of CCMs Principles of CCMs

• Programmes to reflect national ownership

• Membership in CCMs should be broadly representative of a variety of stakeholders

Roles of CCMs

• Coordinate submission of one national proposal for funding

• Select Principal Recipient (PR)

• Monitor implementation of activities

• Evaluate performance of programmes

• Ensure linkage and consistency between Global Fund and other health assistance programmes, e.g. SWAps, etc.

Responsibilities of CCMs

• National consensus group to promote true partnership

• All members to be treated as equal partners

• Members representing non-governmental sector to be elected by their own sectors

• Individual members to hold regular meetings with their constituencies

• Ensure involvement of all relevant actors by providing transparency to the public

• Determine the details of its functioning

Structure of CCMs

• Possess Chair and Vice Chairpersonship with election procedures determined by members

• Chair and vice to be from different domestic sectors

• Election of other officers and development of organizational structure is at the discretion CCMs

Composition of CCMs

• Academic/education sector

• Government sector

• NGO/CBO sector

• PLHIV, TB and malaria affected sector

• Private sector

• Religious/Faith -based sector

• Multilateral and bilateral development partners

• (NGO representation should comprise a minimum of 40%)

Operationalization of CCM

• Global Fund Secretariat lead advisor to be in Technical Review Panel (TRP)

• Global Fund Secretariat to screen proposals

• Global Fund Secretariat to review minutes of CCMs

• Global Fund proposals to include how implementation
responsibilities of PR will be overseen

• PR to continuously inform CCM on implementation progress

• CCMs to have written plan in place to mitigate against inherent conflict of interest

• Global Fund Secretariat to disseminate information or
resources available from different sources