Division 7 Co-financing

The WHO is not a donor or aid agency but a technical agency and thus a co-financing process with external entities would be extremely complex to deal with particularly in the area of health security where stakeholders have various priorities and regional targets. The WHO will deliver technical expertise and project management but is not in a position to provide funds to joint activities in this context. However, the other concomitant projects conducted by the WHO in the laboratory area will be seen as synergistic, inter-linked and complementing each other.

Although there is no co-financing of the project in the form of funds, the WHO will cover partially or entirely the salaries of staff involved in project implementation, which is considered the contribution-in-kind. Salaries of the Project Officer, Administrative Assistant and of the National Consultant in Bangladesh will be partially covered by the WHO. The salaries of the Financial Officer, Coordinator, Regional advisor and of the Medical officers in Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal will be covered entirely by the WHO.