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Background and
Introduction
The Government of Lesotho (GOL) has obtained assistance from
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Turberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
that amounts of US$29,312,000 towards its response to HIV and
AIDS pandemic. The support will contribute to the partnership
against HIV and AIDS in Lesotho by augmenting the Government’s
programme as is articulated in the proposal and the National HIV
and AIDS Policy and National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan
2006-2011 and The core challenge facing Lesotho is therefore to
build necessary capacity for effective management of GFATM
facility and implementation of the national HIV and AIDS
response. As such the World Bank has provided a grant support to
facilitate capacity building and technical assistance for the
implementation of the Global Fund activities.
To address the challenge, World Bank support is to strengthen
the capacity of the National AIDS Commission (NAC) and its
executing arm, the National AIDS Secretariat (NAS), to
effectively plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the national
response to HIV and AIDS.
The NAC is taking up leadership in guiding the implementation
and allocation of the various resources coming into Lesotho for
the HIV and AIDS response. The World Bank support therefore in
part aims at strengthening the capacity of NAC to effectively
assume critical responsibilities for evaluating proposals,
disbursements of funds, monitoring and evaluation of projects
supported through GFATM and other financial resources available
to NAC through the National HIV and AIDS Fund.
At the operational level, the GFATM funded project is guided by
the content of the proposal, grant agreements, Local Fund Agent
(LFA) assessment and existing capacities. The GFATM mechanism is
currently organized in such a way that resources are channelled
through an entity and/or entities known as recipients.
In Lesotho, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP)
is the Principal Recipient and the Ministry of Health and Social
Welfare (MOHSW) and the NAC/NAS are Sub—Recipients. The two
sub-recipients (MOHSW and NAC/NAS) are expected to submit annual
work plans and proposals to the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM)
for approval upon the basis of which the (verification of
process by NAC Directorate required!!)
MOFDP will authorize disbursements of funds to the
sub-recipients’ account. Subsequently, NAC in collaboration with
the District AIDS Committees (DACs) and umbrella bodies, are
responsible for channelling funds to civil society, public and
private sector implementing agencies at the community level.
Grants making
process
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