<div><div>Dear INGO colleagues:</div><div><br></div><div>This email serves as a Call for Electronic Vote for a new INGO representative to the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) in Vietnam. Three candidates have been nominated and you need to give your vote to one of them. Please vote by email to <<a href="mailto:director@ngocentre.org.vn" target="_blank">director@ngocentre.org.vn</a>> before 30 January 2011. Only one vote per organization will be taken into account. The following candidates -listed in chronological order of receiving their statements- have been nominated:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Yasmin Madan (Ms), Population Services International</div><div>2. Matthew Tiedemann (Mr), Pact in Vietnam</div><div>3. Juanita Folmsbee (Ms), Supply Chain Management Systems</div><div><br></div><div>
The INGO representative to the CCM represents all INGOs in Vietnam during discussions on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The CCM in Vietnam meets up to four times a year to discuss and review the GFATM proposal development and implementation. In order to make your vote easier, below are short professional biographies of the candidates, highlighting aspects of their careers relevant to the CCM.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>YASMIN MADAN has been working in Vietnam as Country Representative for Population Services International (PSI) since early 2007. PSI Vietnam is an international not-for-profit organisation with operations in over 60 countries around the world. PSI serves on the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) of 15 countries worldwide and sits on the technical working groups and committees of several more, providing assistance to CCMs on technical and management issues. In addition PSI�s HIV, malaria and TB specialists regularly provide assistance in developing sound proposals; PSI hosts a dedicated department providing technical support to countries receiving Global Fund grants as a Principal Recipient or Secondary Recipient in program management, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, procurement, and contracts; and PSI is the Global Fund�s Procurement Services Agent for the procurement of �Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets in the Voluntary Pooled Procurement (VPP) Mechanism. Prior to Vietnam, Yasmin has worked in Zimbabwe, India and the United States, providing technical assistance to several PSI countries in Africa and Asia regions. Yasmin is also a Steering Committee member of the NGO Resource Centre and committed to ensuring proper representation of international and local civil society in Vietnam. She has over 12 years of international experience in the private and development sectors and extensive experience in designing and managing health programs. She brings a broad field knowledge of a range of donors, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Global Fund and the United Nations� policies and procedures.</div>
<div><br></div><div>MATTHEW TIEDEMANN has been Country Director for Pact in Vietnam since August 2010. Pact in Vietnam is implementing the largest non-governmental project under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) agreement, funded by USAID. Since 2005 this project, valued at US$44.4 million, has provided grants, technical assistance and capacity building to 36 organisations working on the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. In addition, Pact has provided capacity-strengthening services to the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) to support them in preparing for their role in the Round 9 Global Fund proposal and has conducted a capacity-building workshop for the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), also in preparation for Round 9. �In his previous position as Country Director for Pact Malawi, Matthew oversaw a USAID-funded project, which helped in establishing the country�s first independent CCM secretariat. Until early 2010 the secretariat was housed in the National AIDS Commission, which is the main Principal Recipient of Global Funds in Malawi. He managed the process of finalising the terms of reference for the secretariat and the executive director with the CCM�s secretariat task-force, prepared the budget for review by the CCM, negotiated arrangements for the secretariat to be housed in the Ministry of Finance (MOF) with the Secretary to the Treasury (who is CCM chairperson) and other MOF staff, and led the process of conducting three rounds of interviews for director candidates. Matthew provided mentoring and guidance to the new director, hired by Pact and seconded to MOF, and facilitated the hand-over process with her.</div>
<div><br></div><div>JUANITA FOLMSBEE is the Country Director for the USAID Supply Chain Management Systems (SCMS) project in Vietnam. SCMS supplies lifesaving medicines to HIV/AIDS programs around the world and is led by the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, a non-profit organisation established by Management Science for Health (MSH) and John Snow, Inc. (JSI). The 17 SCMS international partners are hands-on and actively work to strengthen supply chains, enabling the scale-up of HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries. Juanita is a Registered Nurse with a Masters in Health Systems Management and has a 20-year track record of living and working internationally in countries such as Haiti, Tanzania, Gabon, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Switzerland. She has managed strategic planning and projected implementation in several countries. In Vietnam, as SCMS/MSH Country Director, she is responsible for 2 offices with an annual budget of �US$10 million and supervision of a total of 30 technical and administrative staff members. As Country Director, in addition to her SCMS director role she also oversees MSH�s pharmaco-vigilance and TB projects and as a result has been involved with governmental and non-governmental stakeholders associated with these projects, including VAAC, Global Fund, Hanoi University of Pharmacy and the National TB Program. Prior to coming to Vietnam she was SCMS Country Program Manager responsible for country offices in Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique. �She also worked for the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) in Haiti for 3 years during the early years of PEPFAR.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to receiving your votes by the end of this month. Thank you in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards!</div><div><br></div><div>Marko</div><div>--�</div><div>Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director</div>
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