As an African-European initiative, the STOP MALARIA NOW! initiative does not only want to raise public awareness about malaria as a global health and development issue and mobilize European decision-makers to make stronger political, financial and strategic commitments in the fight against malaria. Advocating for additional resources is only one side of the coin. It is just as important that particularly small NGOs which mostly carry out their activities in rural areas and therefore make an essential contribution to reach universal coverage get access to international funding.
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the main financing instrument for malaria programs, providing 60% of all international funding for malaria. But application for funding from the Global Fund as well as the participation in its decision making processes remains complex for many civil society organizations.
Especially the work of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) is indispensable in the fight against malaria and other poverty related diseases. It is therefore even more important that they receive financial support so that international funding reaches the people most in need.
This is why STOP MALARIA NOW!, in cooperation with two partner organizations in Kenya, has developed a training curriculum as well as a respective manual to strengthen the knowledge and the capacities of CBOs to apply for funding from the Global Fund.
The new Training Manual is available for download from: http://www.stopmalarianow.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Publications/Training_Manual.pdf
Information provided by Antje Mangelsdorf, STOP MALARIA NOW!
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