to go to hospital" (Group Interview with Health volunteers in Alas, Manufahi).\"

Community members also noted the positive results derived from the malaria interventions ranging from free ITN distribution, the reduction of malaria cases in their community, provisions of information of malaria, and awareness of cleaning their environment.

\""Success, the mosquito net distribution can be regarded as a success...people know more about malaria. Pregnant women get mosquito nets to protect them. We know mosquitoes live in dirty environment. Malaria information reached the community. People started to clean their environment" (FGD with community in Bobonaro).\"

\""We got mosquito nets free... Malaria cases appeared to be going down" (FGD with community in Covalima).\"

Communities also expected NGOs to conduct training and refresher courses continuously, and also demanded that their fellow volunteers deliver health messageslevel.In Timor-Leste, those who were appointed or got involved in the PR, CCM, and SRs at that time had little knowledge about the grant. The PMU had limited capacity in project management and the CCM did not have sufficient resources, which constrained it from performing its oversight role. This was further aggravated by the lack of human resources to support the programme because the Malaria Unit had only two project officers. In addition, there were delays in the recruitment of international advisers for supporting programme management and disease control. All these slowed the pace of implementation, which prompted the Global Fund to issue a warning letter advising that both the malaria grant and the TB grant had been listed in the Global Fund's Early Alert and Response System