THE GLOBAL FUND’S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME. Case Study of Tajikistan (2022-2023)

Technical assistance was implemented in 2022-2023 at the request of the SPIN Plus, a local NGO advocating for the rights of people who use drugs, through the technical assistance provider, Centre for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Centre), Moldova.

A key objective of the technical assistance was to ensure the meaningful engagement of a wide range of key and vulnerable populations into the country dialogue on the development of the new funding request under the Global Fund’s Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) for the period of 2023-2025.

The TA provided resulted in the creation, development and coordination of a broad set of new programme priorities recommended by the affected communities. Based on these recommendations, the Community Priorities Annex was developed and successfully integrated into the funding request. The support also encouraged the active participation of communities and civil society in formulating the content of the funding request, ensuring a better correspondence between the programme priorities and the needs of the key populations (KPs).