Friends Africa, UN Foundation, Afrinvest, Access Bank partner on grassroots healthcare
Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friends Africa), a Pan-African organisation which works to mobilize strategic political and financial support for the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria is being funded by Afrinvest West Africa, Access Bank Plc and the United Nations Foundation to build the capacity of 60 African healthfocused grassroots non-governmental organizations through a seminar, linkages and mentoring. His Excellency, President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana will declare the African Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar open on September 15th 2008 at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Accra- Ghana.

The first-of-itskind initiative, which is a product of a strategic partnership between Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friends Africa) and the African Council of AIDS Service Organisations (AfriCASO), will increase the planning, implementation, evaluation and fundraising capacity of 60 health-focused African grassroots non-governmental organizations. This pioneering seminar is being spearheaded by Friends Africa and keenly supported by the the UN Special Envoy on AIDS to Africa and Vice Chair of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Elizabeth Mataka along with a team of Global Fund staff who will be teaching the group how the global fund works. Other donors and partners participating include UNAIDS, World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Rollback Malaria Partnership, Global AIDS Alliance and the Packard and MTN Foundations amongst others. The outcome of this special initiative is for participating organisations to scale up their activities through increased funding that will only come with competitive proposals and satisfactory implementation of existing projects.

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