Global
Alliance Structure and Organizational Chart
Internal
Global Alliance Structure: Ensuring Representation from All Partners
At the third GAELF meeting, in March 2004, a new structure was approved
for the Global Alliance. A Representative
Contact Group (RCG) composed of country representatives from
each of the regions and representatives of a number of other constituencies
including the pharmaceutical industry, academic/research institutions,
donors, non-governmental organisations, the World Health Organization
and the World Bank was established.
At GAELF3, Cairo the RCG elected an Executive Group of six members with the required skills, commitment and resources to carry out the recommendations made at the Global Alliance meeting in Cairo. According to their terms of reference, the mission of the Executive Group is to "...support the Global Programme by enhancing the effectiveness of national, regional and global fundraising, advocacy, communication and planning for the Programme."
At GAELF4, Fiji the RCG elected a new Executive Group. The RCG reviewed its own structure electing a Chair person (a position which would have a standing position on the Executive Group), Mwele Malecela, who would also be the President of GAELF as Tanzania is to be the host of
GAELF5 in April 2008. The RCG also set itself a task of reviewing the terms of office of RCG members.
The Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine serves as the Secretariat for the
Global Alliance and oversees many of the communications functions
of the Global Alliance.
The Technical
Advisory Group (TAG) advises WHO and the Global Alliance on
key policy, strategy and operational issues relevant to the implementation
and monitoring of the progress and success of the elimination effort.
It identifies research questions that need to be addressed to enhance
the acceptability and the sustainability of the Programme. See the
Operational Research page
under Progress & Plans
for more information on TAG's activities.
The
Global Alliance and the Global Programme: Working Together for a
World Free of LF
The Regional
Programme Review Groups (RPRGs) were created in 2001 to support
country programmes at a regional, rather than global, level. RPRGs
review national plans, review applications for drug donations, provide
technical guidance and identify operational research issues.
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