Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Managing Director of the World Bank:
“We are committed to supporting Friends Africa to step forward and vigorously fight these diseases. I am personally committed to fighting HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and will do the utmost to support Friends Africa in its march towards fighting these diseases on our continent.”
In 2010 Friends of the Global Fund Africa introduced the SME Workplace Policy Development Project. The SMEs Workplace Policies Development program is an initiative of the Friends of the Global Fund Africa, delivered in partnership with Access Bank Plc. The program which was introduced in 2010 seeks to engage, train and assist African Small and Medium Enterprises in the development and implementation of Workplace Policies for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Conceived in 2009, the program held its first successful series of workshop across Nigeria in the first quarter of 2010 reaching a target of over 250 SMEs spread across the North, East and South of Nigeria. The Workshops took place in Lagos (South), Enugu (East) and Minna (North).
In 2011, the program ...
Dr Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba, CEO/Founder of Friends of the Global Fund Africa was on Tuesday March 6th 2012 honoured as a Young Global Leader.
The announcement was made by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss non-profit foundation based in Geneva.
The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes up to 200 outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Past YGLs include Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, Closing Bell, and Anchor and Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, USA; David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Esther Duflo, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Larry Page, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Google, ...
The Friends Africa Technical Assistance (TA) Hub was created to provide and improve proposal development for Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Africa.
The TA Hub was established to strengthen their capacity to submit quality proposals to the Global Fund and other funders in an effort to gain access to funding for their respective health programs. Many countries have difficulties implementing large-scale grants and our TA Hub provides the technical support that these groups require. Friends Africa provided TA for CCMs in Global Fund Round 8.
Friends Africa has a database of over 150 indigenous consultants with expertise in:
Proposal development
Project design
Project management
Monitoring and evaluation
Program work planning
Strategic and operations planning
Project costing and budgeting
Thematic expertise in HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, reproductive ...
Friends Africa organized a “Grassroots NGO Capacity Building Seminar” in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The aim of the seminar was to enhance community based organizations' ability to raise funds, and to facilitate access to donors by improving planning, evaluation and fundraising capacity.
It was attended by representatives from 60 grassroots NGO's from 26 countries across Africa and 25 panellists and resource people.
In addition to training, the seminar offered participating organizations an opportunity to network with one another as well as improve their ability to carry out advocacy programs. Sessions included Mounting and Sustaining Effective Health Advocacy Campaigns, Project Management, Procurement, Monitoring and Evaluation, Organizational Development, Understanding the Global Fund and Financial Management.
In 2012 Friends Africa plans to hold a similar event ...
The Integration Partnership (TIP) is a partnership between Friends of the Global Fund Africa, Population Action International (PAI), and Family Care International (FCI) launched in 2010. The Integration Partnership (TIP) is a two-year partnership designed to increase country demand for reproductive health (RH)/HIV integration—including provision of RH supplies—and maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH)/AIDS, malaria and TB (ATM) integration. The partners work to increase the priority and resources dedicated to RH/HIV integration and MNCH/ATM integration within influential global institutions.
Largely, The Integration Partnership has three objectives:
Increase priority of RH/HIV and MNCH/ATM integration within the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GF) and its supporting technical agencies in policy, program implementation, and funding allocation decisions. This approach seeks to secure ...
As we join the rest of the world today in commemorating the world malaria day, we find this unique day as an opportunity to celebrate the success that have been achieved in the last few years in the fight against malaria.
The African continent has recorded one of the most impressive stories of the fight against malaria where malaria deaths have been cut by one third within the last decade; outside of Africa, 35 out of the 53 countries, affected by malaria, have reduced cases by 50% in the same time period. In countries where access to malaria control interventions has improved most significantly, overall child mortality rates have fallen by approximately 20%.[1]
Nevertheless, for these successes to be maintained and improved ...
The Gift from Africa campaign is a partnership between Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friends Africa) and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Conceived in June 2010, the ‘Gift from Africa’ campaign brings together members of the African private sector committed to advancing health on their continent. So far it has raised $US 5,000,000 for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The growing success of this campaign is evidence of a new appetite for change in Africa, which seeks to take personal and corporate responsibility to engage in the fight against these diseases, through supporting the Global Fund and its national programs. The ‘Gift from Africa’ is a high-profile platform for African business to ...
A partnership between Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friends Africa) and the UN Foundation.
The ‘Africa Champions for Health’ campaign is a coming together of former African Heads of State to promote a renewed commitment to health in Africa. Their united message urges current African leaders to mobilise increased human and financial resources to their health budgets. In particular, it compels them to fulfil the Abuja Declaration of 2001 in which African states committed to spend 15% of their GDP on health, as well as committing resources to the Global Fund against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The Global Fund against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has been, since its inception in 2001, instrumental in reducing these 3 pandemics and contributing to ...
