The 76th Regular GII-IDI meeting was held on 20th September, with six representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and 16 from NGOs attending.

NGOs presented recommendations on promoting further linkage between the Global Fund's activities and projects financed by it, and Japan's bilateral assistance, as well as on how NGOs can work with MOFA to achieve this.

The theme arose out of shared needs of both MOFA and NGOs on promoting partnership between the Global Fund and Japan's bilateral ODA, as well as that between the Fund and NGOs.

NGOs recommended actions to be taken by GO/NGO collaboration included collecting and analyzing good and bad practices of existing partnerships between the Fund and bilateral assistance of donor countries, as well as project formulation in selected pilot countries in the future.

MOFA indicated that it would review the NGO recommendations and both MOFA and NGOs agreed to further discussions to realize concrete GO/NGO partnership.

An NGO representative presented the fifth case study of NGO good practice, explaining a four-year project to reduce childhood parasitic infections in Togo. The first year of the project had been supported by an ODA scheme, Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects.

Referring to having organized workshops on raising awareness on avian influenza in the project areas that the NGO, out of necessity, added into the project components using its own funds, the organization recommended more flexible administration of the Grant Assistance to allow for swift response to emergencies such as this where Japan has expertise.

In other matters, NGOs reported the admission of a new member NGO to the GII/IDI NGO network. With the admission of the Japanese Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (JaNP+), there are now 43 NGOs in the GII/IDI NGO network.

Along with domestic activities, JaNP+ works in international networking of organizations of PLWHA.