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National Partnership Declaration
18 August 2009
What is the Partnership ?
Partnership
Brochure PDF
Meeting Invitation
Meeting Report
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meeting was part of the exploratory phase of the
partnership building, it aimed at giving an orientation
for different partners about the scope of the
partnership regarding its goals, objectives, potential
activities and executive structure.
Attendants were representatives for NGOs and students'
organization also media people and university
professors, and different governmental directorates of
the ministry of health in addition to the governorates'
coordinators of TB.
The meeting was chaired by Dr. Mohammed Awad Tag-ELDin,
the chair of the EM regional partnership to Stop TB, and
in presence of Dr. Zuhair Hallaj and Dr. Akihiro Seita
from WHO EMRO.
Preparation for the event included designing a logo and
a slogan for the partnership, designing and printing
some advocacy materials consisting of a brochure, a
banner and rollups. Also a formal invitation was sent to
all potential partners few days prior to the meeting
rather than phone call and direct conversations.
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What is Partnership ?
Rationale:
Control of tuberculosis requires a multidisciplinary
approach. The scale-up of tuberculosis control activities cannot be achieved
solely by national tuberculosis program, the traditional player in
tuberculosis control.
National tuberculosis partnership need to be extended to nongovernmental
sectors and civil society and strengthened to complement and contribute to
existing coordination mechanisms.
Vision:Egypt is free from
Tuberculosis by 2050
Mission:
To reduce the human suffering of TB.
To reduce the spread of TB.
To achieve Stop TB target for global TB eradication
Objectives:
To create a national response to fight TB
To provide accurate information about TB and the fight against it.
To be a platform for agencies and stakeholders to contribute to the fight
against TB
To raise additional resources for Stop TB (human resource, expertise
financial resources, in-kind contributions)
To share common resources on the basis of performance output
Criteria for becoming a member:
Egypt is free from Tuberculosis by 2050
To reduce the human suffering of TB.
To reduce the spread of TB.
To achieve Stop TB target for global TB eradication.
To create a national response to fight TB
To provide accurate information about TB and the fight against it.
To be a platform for agencies and stakeholders to contribute to the fight
against TB
To raise additional resources for Stop TB (human resource, expertise
financial resources, in-kind contributions)
To share common resources on the basis of performance output
Feeling the social responsibility
Motivated and Highly effective personality
Ready to Advocate for the elimination of TB as a public health threat at all
levels
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Proposing and accepting new members:
Members of the partnership will be able to propose other
members when they feel that they may contribute to the program and accepting
the new members will be through a consensus
Membership Responsibilities and activities:
Advocacy for Stop TB Internet based publication
Partners directory
Activity directory
Progress reports
Voices from the field (patients and communities)
Discussion forum
Invite broad participation Special events for general public and
stakeholders
Mass media
Fund raising events
Awareness raising event
Political lobby
Approach new partners
Monitoring progress of ongoing NTP activities
Endorse progress and incorporate in advocacy communication
materials.
Recommend changes in ongoing activities
Appraise progress reports from partners
Endorse progress and incorporate in advocacy communication materials
Recommend changes in ongoing activities
Procedures:
Frequency of regular meetings:
Quarterly meeting should be conducted regularly in addition to extra
ordinary meetings as decided by executive board
Appointment and determination of terms of office of chair, vice-chair,
executive secretary and members:
In the first formal meeting of the partnership an election should be
conduction to select the Executive board and adopting the constitution and
bylaws of the partnership.
Appointment and location of secretariat and its functions
The national Tuberculosis control Program has appointed temporary contracted
secretary to take care with the birth of the partnership and to arrange for
meeting and help in setting up the constitution and he will be based at the
national TB training & research center The executive board shall decide who
will take the responsibility of secretary which is the term of reference of
this job.
Decision making:
Decision within the partnership will be taken by consensus or as
settled by the constitution & Bylaws that well be developed by an initial
committee
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