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Project management and M&E: Financial status and expenditures:

• WHO recruited an additional staff (HSO) to work with the
national counterparts to accelerate the implementation of Financial implementation rate (activities) is 100%. The
the project planned activities (started on October 2019). available balance is 0.00 USD.
• Within the exercise of adaptation and conduction of the
assessment of the functionality of LHMTs, the set of
benchmarks and indicators to assess the LHMTs Key challenges and approaches to
performance routinely have been developed. address them:
• End of grant evaluation has been conducted with wide
participation from donors (EU and AICS), partners (IMC,
Goal, CWW), federal, states and locality level health •Impacts of the economic situation manifested in shortage of
authorities. Lessons and linkages with other SDHS projects fuel and unavailability of cash for the national counterparts.
has also been clarified and recommendations withdrawn and WHO adopted some measures to address these issues that
are reported under the report recommendations section. include direct financial transactions;
•Social and political unrest that started in December 2018
Visibility: and continued in the first quarter 2019;
•High staff turnover and policy instability at different level;
• WHO is constantly acknowledging the generous •Weak involvement of some departments and entities at
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contribution of Japan Government in different fora. national level (e.g. MCH, CNCD, NMSF).
The support was acknowledged and appreciated by
the visited States’ Governors and the government
officials. Local and national media (TV, Radio and Success factors:
newsletters) covered all advocacy workshops in five
states and reflected Japan’s support. Japan, WHO
and FMOH logos are displayed in printed materials, • Ownership of the project by national entities (FMOH
banners and procured items (IT equipment). The and states);
banner pic below shows a sample of the printed • High political commitments of State Governors and
materials produced. commissioners of localities;
• Alignment with the national health priorities (One
Health Plan) and complementarity approach;
• Good collaboration between WHO and all partners and
stakeholders involved in strengthening the decentralized
health system;
• Successful implementation and involvement of
stakeholders encourages key donors and partners to adopt
the same approaches and scale up the programme in other
states (catalytic effect).

End of grant evaluation workshop
Corinthia, Khartoum – March 2019

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