The Regional Steering Committee was established in 2013 with a mandate to oversee the creation and implementation of the RAI.

The RSC’s main responsibilities are:

• Steering the Global Fund grant emergency response
• Taking collective responsibility for strategic direction and
• Allocating and reallocating Global Fund resources as needed.

The RSC effectively operates as a “regional coordinating mechanism” for the RAI grant, following the model and principles of the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) established at national level to oversee the use of Global Fund grants.

The RSC includes members from all five governments of the RAI recipient countries, as well as representatives from various stakeholders from within the region, including multilateral and bilateral development partners, WHO, civil society, private sector and academic institutions.

Find out more on the RAI grant and on the role of the RSC in this video