UNOPS
was selected by the Regional Steering Committee and Global Fund to Fight
A...
UNOPS
was selected by the Regional Steering Committee and Global Fund to Fight
Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) as a regional Principal
Recipient (PR) of the Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative grant (RAI). The implementation of the grant commenced in
January 2014 and in November 2016, GFATM approved new funding allocations to
PR-GFATM in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia,
Lao PDR, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand) to extend RAI into 2017, bridging the
gap until the next three years funding cycle begins in 2018. This new grant under negotiation in 2017 is
known as the Regional
Artemisinin-resistance Initiative for Malaria Elimination (RAI2E) 2018 – 2020. Substantial
amounts of the funds will continue to be allocated to building resilient and
sustainable health systems, particularly in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.
UNOP delivers PR services on
behalf of the Global Fund by providing health services to the communities
through a versatile landscape of partnerships, working closely with the
Ministries of Health (MoH) and civil society organisations as well as UN
partners, providing health system strengthening services in a sustainable
fashion and often times in the form of an advisor on building systems and
capacities in planning, budgeting, implementation management, monitoring and
evaluation, reporting, financial management, as part of the advisory services
built into the Programme.
UNOPS is PR for the Regional Artemisinin-resistance
Initiative 2 - Malaria Elimination (RAI2E) grant in Lao PDR. In order to ensure prudent financial and
programmatic mechanisms, UNOPS is looking for a Programme Coordinator with
expertise in programme financial management to establish a small PR-Program Management
Unit (PMU) in Lao PDR MoH.
UNOPS as Principal Recipient (PR) in Lao PDR is dedicated
to building capacity. The MOH functional
teams and their programmes are used to one model of operation. PR aims to strengthen
the functional teams of the Laos Principal Recipient Management Unit within the
Ministry of Health. The work of the PR with
the Department of Planning and International Coordination (DPIC), Department of
Finance (DOF) and Health Information Unit (HIU) will increasingly align with
the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) structure, defining a mechanism to transfer
capacity to line management functions of existing MoH staff.