Most CCM members completely misunderstand their role in the CCM. For example, today in the Bolivian CCM meeting, the representative of the Sex Workers said: "How much of the HIV proposal is for us?”

 The role of overseeing the project, looking for transparency in decision making processes is not a priority for most CCM members. Also in some cases the involvement of some PRs, especially when they are from the United Agencies such as UNDP, changes the context of the decision making process in the CCM. Using its capacity as a UN agency, UNDP secured a YES vote in the CCM without revision. This is what is happening now with the UNDP as PR of TB and Malaria in the Bolivian CCM.

If the success of the GF rests on the CCM this is a terrible situation because nowadays, activists are on sale.

 The CCM is an imperfect mechanism and a lot of it happened because the CCM members use their role, not to oversee the project but to secure decisions that channel funds to their organizations or allies. Transparency is a word that most CCM members’ don´t understand and don´t want to know about.

 The TRP report in the 18th GFBM, already mentioned the preoccupation for the lack of clarity of CCMs decisions for a continuation of a PRs. I am not confident the model of the GF will last a lot because the mechanism that was designed to oversee the project implementation at country level, the CCM, has failed almost completely. An involution process of the CCM happened and it became a space for quarrel in which alliances are worked in breaks in order to secure funds. The worst of it is that sometimes PRs are linked to the decision making process of the CCM in a very horrible way of manipulation. How to ensure the transparency of a GF project implementation at country level? The LFA is not a choice either; they also have their own interests and their own activists to buy.

How knowledgeable are your CCM members about their own roles and responsibilities in the CCM?  

§         After efforts from the Ministry of Health and UNAIDS, Turkey has a CCM, but it is formed by mostly governmental or semi-governmental seats (like universities) and NGOs. Knowing the roles and responsibilities of those within the CCM would have made a big difference to Turkey's result in Round 5. The main challenge is the fundamental difference in approach from the different stakeholders. The MoH sees its work as a job, whereas as NGOs see it as an opportunity to improve the lives of those in their communities. With such different perspectives, transparency, sharing experiences and information, and having successful CCM role models to follow, is extremely important.

§         The CCM in Mauritania works quite well and the communication between its members is done through either snail mail or email. Members have an important role to play and participate actively in decision-making. However, the role of the CMM could be improved by putting an actual strategy for communication with the various stakeholders. Strong involvement by the private sector would play an important role in disseminating information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and, ultimately, the visibility of program nationwide. The CCM should also work towards strengthening the skills of its members by sharing information and experiences with CCMs in other countries. This would be a way to measure our CCM's level of performance in relation to others.
 

§         It's no secret that the CCMs have been created for the Global Fund, to receive money from the Fund. CCMs only come together to obtain signatures in order to make changes to programs. A CCM does not play any role in resolving specific problems in the three sectors.

§         Awareness is about engagement, meaningful participation, leadership and most of all about action. He thinks that CCMs need to think beyond representation as many times representation is mixed with participation.

Contributions by:
English: Nejatunlu, Balikungeri
French: Yahya Kane
Russian: ABDULLA YULDASHEV

Hello I want to give information about CCM Roles and situation of CCM in Turkey, very briefly.

Unfortunatly there is no any mechanism to represent of GF in Turkey. Only some govermental places and UN's parts had been well informed. But these knowledges didn't share openly with NGOs and GOs. Some efforts by UNAIDS and cooperating with Ministry of Health, Fifth Round of GF has been started 3 years ago. And naturally any NGOs or GOs didn't apply any project.

To Overcome this, Ministry of Health organised some meetings to give information about GF and Round 5 and then projects has been started to come. After acceptance of Turkey's applly by GF, GF strongly recommended to establishing CCM. MoH cleverly, organised a meeting among NGOs and (mostly) GOs, and they mentioned creation of CCM and collected request from NGOs&GOs and finally MoH had an CCM which is formed by mostly govermental or half govermental places (like university) and NGOs.

Unfortunatly I confess that I didn't know CCM's Roles and importancy before participating to GF Regional Meeting in Tbilisi. Now I'm very sad and I feel inveigled. Round 5 for Turkey is going to be finished very soon and CCM Turkey will be dismissed. Last CCM Meeting MoH had reject to share all information which is collected by this round and they said "they can change CCM's members or get in new members or get out existing members, etc."

Why I want to share my feelings and experience here? Because I have to share what I (We) learned during this trip. This is not a compliant. First of all, this is not a challenge between NGOs and MoHs. MoHs point of view is usually "this is a job", but NGO's point is "this is a opportunity to give life chance to our communities". Knowledge is best toll but not all. Transperency, sharing experiences and talking among us is very important. etc.

What we gonna do now? From now on We will recreate our all mechanism at the begining. Now we are organising meetings among NGOs and sensible people and places for understanding our situation and finding solutions. And I beleive that we will recreate our new CCM. So our answer for your question is our CCM Members didn't know their roles and reponsibilities. Best way is sharing knowledge, experiences and being transparent, maybe getting help from GF (NGO's represantative) or inviting some succesfull CCM role models. 

Regards Nejat Unlu Positive Living Asso.

Post translated from the French original. Posted by: Yahya Kane

The CCM in Mauritania works quite well and the communication between its members is done through either snail mail or email. Members have an important role to play and participate actively in decision-making. However, the role of the CMM could be improved by putting an actual communications strategy in place for the various stakeholders.

For example, the involvement of the sector is dependent on the quality of advocacy towards entrepreneurs and employers in Mauritania as a whole. I think that strong involvement by the private sector would play an important role in disseminating information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (the consequences of these diseases do affect companies), and ultimately, the visibility of programmes nationwide.

The CCM should also work towards strengthening the skills of its members by sharing information and experiences with CCMs in other countries. This would be a way to measure our level of performance in relation to other CCMs (any exceptional or special circumstances aside).

Until then.

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