In February 2009, Myanmar Operations Centre (MMOC) was selected by the
Myanmar C...
In February 2009, Myanmar Operations Centre (MMOC) was selected by the
Myanmar Country Coordination Mechanism for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) as one of two Principal Recipients of GFATM
grants for Myanmar. The implementation of three grants (AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria) under MMOC management commenced in January 2011 and the first Phase of
implementation was completed in December 2012. In 2013, Myanmar received
additional funding from the Global Fund under the New Funding Model (NFM) for
four years’ period 2013 – 2016. Total funding under MMOC management amounts to
USD 275 million for the period 2011-2016.
MMOC is responsible for the delivery of targets set out in the grant
agreement, in collaboration with selected Sub-Recipients (SR) from the national
programmes, international and local NGOs and United Nations agencies. This
arrangement comes under the oversight of the Myanmar Country Coordinating
Mechanism (which has recently been changed to the Myanmar Health Sector
Coordination Committee or HSCC), which is a partnership between local
stakeholders from NGOs, multilateral and bilateral development partners, the
public and private sector and people living with or affected by the diseases.
This enables effective and target-based aid delivery to those most in need.
In 2013 MMOC has been selected by Regional Steering
Committee (RSC) for the Regional Artemisinin Resistance Containment Initiative
(RAI) as single Regional Principal Recipient. The RAI is a three year project which
commenced on 1 January 2014 and which covers five Mekong countries most
affected by artemisinin resistance: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and
Vietnam. The expected three-years funding for the RAI is USD 100 million.
In 2015 the PR
Programme in Cambodia was also integrated into the PR Programme in MMOC and a
consolidation and integration of all PR undertaking had taken place. This
consolidation established a matrix management system with technical expertise
pooled in the AR across all grants, while reporting has been tailored to
reflect this integration making the Programme Director accountable for all
grants. This consolidation was necessary to ensure that consistently high
quality PR work is maintained across the whole region in all grants with a
technically sound, harmonized and coherent vision, approach and practices - and
resources are utilized efficiently providing best services to stakeholders and
to enable expansion of PR services in the AR.