Year: 2020

Proposal Development for the funding cycle 2021-2024 to Global Fund took off virtually due to existing COVID-19 situation

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Due to the existing COVID-19 situation, ‘a third of the global population’ (businessinsider.com) is under a lockdown situation. In Nepal too, with the detection of second COVID-19 infected patients, the government announced a nationwide lockdown on 23rd March 2020 to be effective from 24th March 2020 6 AM onwards. Until today, this lockdown is effective. This has given rise to working remotely – work from home.

Amidst this pandemic situation, a team in Nepal working together to develop the proposal for the funding cycle 2021-2024 to the Global Fund and revision process of three diseases (HIV, TB, and Malaria) also decided to work from home by the meeting held on 3rd April 2020. The very meeting was also held virtually. Since then, all the country dialogue processes as part of proposal development are being held virtually:

  1. Core task team meeting – 03-04-2020;
  2. Updated National Networks to conduct virtual consultation at the community level – 04-04-2020;
  3. Discussion and Update on NHSP Revision – 08-04-2020
  4. A follow-up meeting with National Networks of virtual consultation at community – 09-04-2020;
  5. TB Task Team Meeting – 10-04-2020 (this task team meeting was initially planned for 27th March but postponed due to lockdown);

And finally, consultation at the community has started virtually from 13th April 2020:

  1. NANGAN conducted consultation at Sudurpaschim Province on 13-04-2020;
  2. JMMS conducted consultation at Bagmati Province on 14-04-2020
  • Core Task Team Meeting
  • TB Task Team Meeting
  • TB Task Team Meeting
  • Update Follow-up meeting with National Network
  • Update Follow-up meeting with National Network
  • Virtual Community Consultation

P.S. The latest updates will be posted continuously.

Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting at Four Provinces Accomplished!

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CCM Nepal conducted “Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting” at four Provinces namely Gandaki Province, Province number 5, Karnali Province and Sudurpaschim Province from 13-19th January 2020 with the support of the Global Fund(GF), Save the Children, FHI 360, UNAIDS, USAID and APCASO.

The objectives of the meeting were:

  1. To foster harmony and solidarity building among Civil Society (CS) and Key Population (KP) community members in the provinces.
  2. To share and discuss on the Country’s GF Grants, PEPFAR and Country’s HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria epidemiology, National HIV Strategic Plan(NHSP), National Malaria Strategic Plan(NMSP) and National Tuberculosis Strategic Plan(NTSP).

In the meeting, orientation was provided on the following topics:

  1. The GF and CCM
  2. The GF HIV, TB and Malaria program implementation in respective provinces
  3. Effective KP and CS community engagement
  4. PEPFAR Regional Operational Plan (ROP) 2019 priorities and progress
  5. ROP 2020 priorities and process.

The discussion was done on the role and expectation of KP/CS on NHSP, NMSP and NTSP review and proposal development for the Global Fund and PEPFAR ROP 2020. Action plans were developed on way forward for NHSP, NMSP and NTSP review, country dialogue process of the GF and PEPFAR ROP 2020.

Insights from the meetings and the community recommendations will be incorporated for NHSP, NMSP and NTSP review and development of the new proposals for the Global Fund and PEPFAR ROP 2020.

Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting in Province Number 5
Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting in Gandaki Province
Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting in Sudurpaschim Province
Provincial Level Civil Society Engagement Consultation Meeting in Karnali Province