Regional Malaria CSO Consultation 4 December 2014, Thailand

Overview;

A 1-day consultation on 4 December 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand had organized with the main objectives 1) to create a regional civil society malaria platform that can operate to strengthen national and regional responses to malaria with a particular focus on the needs of excluded or hard-to-reach groups and 2) to build CSO engagement in national Reponses and Global Fund processes and share and document experiences and lessons learned in CSO engagement in the Global Fund.

A brief overview on the current status of RAI was presented by the representative from the RAI RSC secretariat.  Snapshot of Global Fund financing for malaria in the GMS and focus on calling for a regional approach to achieve common goal was presented in the meeting