Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014

Details for Mechanism ID: 13435
Country/Region: Ukraine
Year: 2014
Main Partner: Ministry of Health
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0 Additional Pipeline Funding: $544,065

NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.

(1) The mechanism will develop capacity of MoH, including UCDC, SSH and the regional AIDS centers network.

The project concentrates on building human resources, infrastructure and organizational capacity in three areas: Strategic Information, Laboratory Strengthening, and Blood Safety.

CDC support through this mechanism was included in GFATM grant planning to avoid overlap while providing for capacity development not covered by GFATM.

By implementing this project, MoH will strengthen their own capacity and prepare for taking over activities currently carried out by other GF PRs, such as procurement and M&E, after the GF support ends.

The project contributes to all goals of Ukraine’s PF: directly to goals 2 and 3 and indirectly to goal 1.

(2) Target populations and beneficiaries include: staff of NMEC, NHRL, Blood centers, VNRBD. Planned activities will serve all 27 regions.

(3) The project is using available cost reduction strategies for procurement. This has already resulted into signif. cost savings. In SI area, capacity building is using ToT approach to achieve sustainability.

(4) Funded activities are planned to strengthen existing health system with GoU support.

(5) The project will report on a custom capacity building indicator that will measure USG TA contributions to the PF goals. Indicator disaggregations will inform programmatic decisions.

(6) The project faced significant difficulties during start-up period, connected to the reform in GoU, the need to meet requirements of two governmental financial systems, and lengthy official project registration process at GoU. At this moment, the main obstacles are overcome, and project implementation is accelerated as much as possible in order to reduce the pipeline.

(7) No shift of pipeline to this IM is planned.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Laboratory Infrastructure (HLAB) $0
Strategic Information (HVSI) $0
Biomedical Prevention: Blood Safety (HMBL) $0
Mechanism Target Information

Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.

This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.

Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Tuberculosis