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A Q&A with Dr Lucica Ditiu on how UNOPS supports Stop TB Partnership deliver on its mission
We caught up with the Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership Dr Lucica Ditiu on how UNOPS unique hosted partnerships model enables diverse initiatives to collaborate and deliver impact at scale through an efficient and cost-effective platform.
In a world facing a growing number of complex, interconnected crises, responding to needs and delivering impact at scale demands global, collaborative action.
The Stop TB Partnership, hosted by UNOPS, is a global, multi-stakeholder initiative committed to eradicating tuberculosis. It has over 2,000 partners drawn from TB communities, international and technical organizations, government programmes, research and funding agencies, foundations, NGOs, civil society, and private sector companies, all committed to eliminating TB as a public health problem by 2030.
Dr Lucica Ditiu joined UNOPS Insights to share her thoughts on how UNOPS unique hosted partnerships model supports effective multilateral action – and advances the Stop TB Partnership's critical mission.
How does UNOPS help you deliver?
UNOPS is really creating the foundation for us to be able to do the work in enabling us with all the processes – with recruitment, with the legal perspective, with the financial angle – and for making all these things extremely smooth, so we can focus on our technical work.
For us as a partnership for health, every minute means somebody else becoming sick or even dying because of TB. So we don't have the luxury of wasting time. So our partnership [with UNOPS] delivers, rapidly, services and support for people.
What difference does our partnership make in reaching people?
I think what's extremely important and very relevant for the times we’re going through now is the speed. [It] is the fact that for us as a partnership for health, every minute means somebody else becoming sick or even dying because of tuberculosis (TB). So we don't have the luxury of wasting time. So our partnership delivers, rapidly, services and support for people.
Why is multilateral action important now more than ever?
I think we need to stay together if we want to make a difference in this world. We really need to stick together. Not only if we end TB, but if we want to make peace in the world, and this world overall a better place.
Dr Lucica Ditiu
Dr Lucica Ditiu is the Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership. Under her leadership, the organization has become a key advocate for universal health coverage and a world without TB. She has devoted her career to supporting people affected by TB, especially the most vulnerable and those in impoverished communities. A specialist in lung diseases, she began her global career with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000. She has more than 30 years of experience in medicine and public health, working at every level of the WHO and UN system in countries including Romania, Albania, Kosovo, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
