The LMS Cote d'Ivoire project receives field support funding from PEPFAR to build the capacity of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund. Focused on strengthening leadership and management skills, the LMS project is working not only to build the capacity of the current members in the five functions of a CCM, but also to build a sustainable CCM orientation program to ensure that as regular membership renewal occurs, the CCM will continue to function at a high level.

RESULTS

LMS has helped the CCM achieve results in several areas including senior leadership development and governance; proposal development; monitoring and evaluation; resource mobilization and donor harmonization.

• Cote d'Ivoire received a $181 million HIV/AIDS award and a $49 million TB award from the Global Fund for Round 9.
• Forty members of the CCM and principal recipient received training in developing and using executive management dashboards, with a practical exercise of loading data to the dashboards and conducting a data analysis. This exercise alerted the CCM and Ministry of Health to a potential stock-out of essential medicines in some warehouses, and gave them the opportunity to successfully avoid it.
  
• In July 2009, the Cote d'Ivoire CCM received official legal status as a non-governmental organization affiliated with the Ministry of Health.
• In November 2009, 25 primary members of the CCM completed the Senior Leadership Development Program.
• In February 2007, the CCM held transparent membership renewal and elections of key positions.

EXPERIENCE IN COUNTRY

• Capacity Building of the CCM
  
• Senior Leadership Development Program

Capacity Building of the CCM

LMS technical assistance is clarifying the five functions of a CCM for each member and transforming the CCM into a cohesive body that is a critical and effective player in rallying all sectors within the country to combat the diseases of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and TB. There are two general program objectives:

1. The CCM, Executive Committee, and Proposal Development Committee will have strengthened capacity to develop high quality, multi-sectoral proposals in HIV/AIDS and Health Systems Strengthening.

2. The CCM and CCM secretariat will have strengthened capacity for governance, oversight and monitoring of the Global Fund grants.

The five functions of a CCM include Governance, Harmonization of Resources, Proposal Development, Monitoring & Evaluation, and Communication. LMS will focus on each of these areas over the course of this program.

Senior Leadership Development Program

LMS offered a three-part workshop on Leadership Development to the 25 members of the CCM  focusing on strengthening leadership,  management and governance in complex conditions. An adapted version of LMS’s flagship program, this LDP began with field visits to sub-recipient sites prior to the work sessions. These visits to the HIV service delivery sites provided CCM members, many for the first time, with the opportunity to see firsthand the management and leadership challenges facing HIV AIDS programs in their country; they reinforced the links between the high level decision makers, those who implement the programs, and the beneficiaries whom the Global Fund grants ultimately support. By immersing the CCM members in the daily challenges faced by the sub-recipients of the Global Fund grants, the program helped members to better support these organizations so they can achieve their expected results.

Over the course of the program, each sub-committee of the CCM created an action plan to address either committee specific or general CCM challenges. By working in teams and having the team commitment, the work itself reinforced each team’s ability to govern itself well and maintain transparency.