ADRA Trains the Government

To jumpstart our business ventures, ADRA has been blessed with an opportunity to help the government achieve financial transparency up to international standards.  Worldwide, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is making a push to transfer its activities from the UN to local governments, and in STP’s case, the Global Fund (GF) will soon switch from being managed by the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to CNE (Centro Nacional de Endemias, the Saotomean counterpart to the CDC in the United States).  ADRA was specifically approached by a team of evaluators from UNDP to bring CNE’s financial standards up to the level required to manage the GF because of ADRA-STP’s reputation for financial transparency, rigor, and quality.  Our dream is to expand this one-time training course into a full suite of training programs in various other areas, as well (survey research implementation, multimedia communication strategies, and other areas where our current staff hold expertise), so as to offer these trainings to other organizations and the public at large as a source of revenue for our ADRA office.  Even while conducting the current financial training course for the government, we are developing further courses to open our training center as soon as possible.