How we work
Secretariat
Pangaea Zimbabwe acts as the link between the coalition and funders, manages fiduciary sub-granting and strengthens partners’ financial and institutional capacity for sustainability.
Ensures clear, inclusive communication across partners, country coalitions, and regional and global networks to support collaboration and alignment. Safeguards COMPASS’s vision, partner cohesion, and effective governance while strengthening country coalitions in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania.Provides strategic program and MERL support, enables evidence-based advocacy, measures impact, and drives learning to enhance future coalition action.
Program Support team
The program support team is the technical support hub of the COMPASS. The work of the program support team is to advise on strategy and tactics to support the success of country, regional and global advocacy campaigns, through review and continuous feedback on partner strategic action plans and campaigns. The program support team responds to technical support requests from partners, connects partners working on similar campaigns across the coalition, facilitates specialized TA between COMPASS partners, and advises the Governance Committee on strategic priorities. The program support team also proactively identifies strategic advocacy opportunities for COMPASS partners.
Country Coordinators
Country coordinators are persons recruited to lead COMPASS activities implementation in the country. The Country Coordinators work hand in hand with the Country Coalition leadership to oversee all the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities in their country. The Coordinators help in resource mobilization and capacity building of the Country Coalition. The Coordinators act as a link between Country Coalitions, Program Support Team, the Secretariat and Governance Committee. The TOR for the country coordinators is provided by the COMPASS secretariat working in coordination with country secretariats.
MERL Hub
The MERL Hub leads COMPASS-wide monitoring and evaluation and cross-coalition learning; supports data collection, analysis and COMPASS reporting and case study development. MERL works closely alongside the program support team and secretariat to document and evaluate COMPASS advocacy campaigns as well as coalition approaches. MERL Provides ongoing support to country partners to document and evaluate advocacy approaches and wins. MERL Conducts annual coalition health scorecard. MERL Coordinates MERL Champions.
COMPASS Country Coalitions
Loose or formal coalitions made up of expert national CSOs actively working on HIV, TB, COVID-19, SRHR and health security from various sectors of HIV and health (KP, people living with HIV, AGYW or youth broadly, women’s rights, networks). The loose coalitions are in Malawi and Tanzania, while Zimbabwe has a formal coalition. The loose coalitions are not duly registered, hence have no constitution but rather terms of reference for governance. Formal coalitions are registered. Traditionally the coalitions are led by a chairperson selected from members of the coalition. The different Country Coalitions also elect a secretariat to manage the day-to-today coalition activities. COMPASS coalitions also incorporate partner organizations and stakeholders who are engaged from time to time during COMPASS and other advocacy activities. Decisions are made during coalition member meetings on advocacy campaigns (emerging and ongoing), strategies and approaches, and who leads the program/project implementation.