Goals

The Global Alliance coordinates activities of partners and concentrates on political, financial and technical support.

Political support

• Increase publicity at an international level to raise public awareness of LF as a debilitating and disabling, poverty-related disease that is eliminable.
• Engage the media in telling the story of the successes and challenges of LF programmes.

Financial support

• Provide expertise in fundraising and advocacy to aid country programmes in developing and implementing strategies for resource mobilisation.
• Aid countries in accessing debt relief and other multilateral funds, as well as exploring linkages with The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
• Encourage country-level resource mobilisation by providing training and materials for country programmes to mobilise support from local companies and non-governmental organisations.
• Engage in advocacy activities with potential and current donors.

Technical support

• Develop a network of academic/research institutes, particularly in endemic countries, to support LF country and regional programmes.
• Provide expertise in monitoring and evaluation for country programmes.
• Promote the research priorities and strategies of the LF elimination effort.
• Provide opportunities for country staff to further their training and education in a mutually beneficial fashion.
• Measure programme costs and cost-effectiveness and disseminate this information in a clear way to help with programme planning and resource mobilisation.
• Measure the impact on health systems of LF elimination programmes.