Juba 18 June, 2018: As the World Health Organization Country Office in South Sudan works to proactively engage, reach out and build sustainable partnership for resource mobilization, the WHO Headquarter and Regional office external relation units supported the country office to conduct a two-day training for all technical officers and program managers from 12-13 June, 2018. This is in line with the WHO AFRO transformation agenda, effective communications and partnerships area of focus.

The training aimed at helping all staff to appreciate their unique roles, and responsibilities in resource mobilization, contribution management cycle, and effective partnership management. A range of topics were covered including but not limited to principles of resource mobilization and partnership building, grant management- alignment to WHO reform, proposal development, quality reporting and frame work of engagement with non-state actors.

Donors including United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID) and Canada used this platform to present their organisational policies on engagements, red flags raised during proposals and reports reviews.

The WHO Representative a.i. for South Sudan Mr Liyosi Evans, reiterated that a successful implementation of resource mobilization and donor engagement plan requires good knowledge and skills of all staff directly and indirectly involved in the process and stressed the importance of the training.   Mr Liyosi acknowledged the generous support from USAID, Canada, Japan, European Union Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) and many others who have made WHO’s work in South Sudan possible.

‘The training helped me to understand donor relations and the role of us technical officers as well as the importance of quality donor reporting which is critical to resource mobilization as the next contribution begins with the end of the last one’, said Alex Soukemawu technical officer for WASH.

The country office has a unique role in resource mobilization as increasingly, most of the funding decisions for humanitarian response interventions and even developmental programs are now made at the country level. Over 25 technical and administrative staff benefited from the training.