Capacity development

The Global Fund and UNDP have increasingly focused on and invested in capacity development to ensure sustainability and country ownership of grant implementation. UNDP has developed a capacity development toolkit to provide practical guidance on how to manage a capacity development process for national entities to implement national disease responses for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The web-based “toolkit” includes advice, tools, templates and results frameworks for the capacity development process. It also supports the development of plans to transition the Principal Recipient role. The objective of the “toolkit” is to support the capacity development of national entities to take over the management of Global Fund programmes as soon as circumstances permit.

Critical success factors for Capacity Development (CD):
•    Key stakeholders should be in the lead of a CD process to ensure ownership and sustainability
•    CD includes: strengthening systems; procedures; oversight; and skills development
•    CD makes a contribution to risk mitigation, in particular for sub-recipient management
•    Plan CD from an early stage of a Global Fund grant and identify resources required
•    Focus on results and use indicators to track the progress of the CD plan
•    Also consider strategic CD including policy, strategy, sustainable financing and communication

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Online “toolkit”
The online Capacity Development Toolkit to Strengthen National Entities to Implement National Responses for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria is focused on: programme management; sub-recipient management; financial management and systems; monitoring and evaluation; and procurement and supply chain management, thus promoting longer-term national ownership and sustainability.

The toolkit is comprised of three parts:

1.    the guidelines, which consist of the narrative describing the process of all stages of the capacity development cycle;
2.    the toolbox, which contains templates, tools, links and other resources; and
3.    the rapid assessment tool template, which is aligned to the capacities and indicators in the guidelines and can be adapted to carry out the capacity assessment and planning.

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