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 Finance Officer with
expertise in financial management to support the 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.