People living with HIV represented in all key decision forums Cuba has broad spectrum of activities focusing on the promotion of human rights and the respect of sexual diversity At the end of April this year, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a diagnostic review of the Global Fund grants to the Republic of Cuba. The purpose of…

Fund rated “strong” in results and relevance, but only “satisfactory” in organisational behaviour Leadership and human resources policies assessed as “weak” One year after receiving a high score in the UK’s Multilateral Aid Review (MAR), the Global Fund received a very mixed report card in the Australian Multilateral Assessment (AMA). The Australian aid agency AusAID rated the effectiveness of 42 of…

Progress report more subdued than past reports CCM oversight, sub-recipient management and the role of local fund agents all require greater attention, according to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). These comments are included in the OIG’s Progress Report for November 2011-March 2012, which was presented to the Global Fund Board at its meeting in May in Geneva. The…

Focus will be on improving participation of implementing countries Roles of partners, TRP, OIG to be reviewed The Global Fund Board is embarking on Phase 2 of its governance reform project. This phase will focus on strengthening communications and enhancing participation from implementing countries. In Phase 1, the role of the Board was clarified; the committee structure was revised; coordination…

Nigeria’s country coordinating mechanism (CCM) has formed a task force to recover Global Fund money that has been misused. The communication officer of the CCM, Emmanuel Couson, told GFO that the task force includes the Minister of Health and the country’s Auditor General. The task force will review the final audit report on Global Fund grants in Nigeria issued by the Fund’s…

Says funds taken from other services to cover cost of centres PR and CCM dispute the findings The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) says that 1,291 new health centres were constructed as part of the Rounds 4 and 7 HIV grants in Ethiopia, even though this activity was not part of the approved workplan and budget. The OIG also…

“The Fund should consider abandoning the use of income status as an eligibility criterion”   Authors call for an approach based on disease burden and financial need Ten years after its formation, the Global Fund is now entering a phase that will require it to allocate its funds more carefully and strategically. It can only do so by addressing the…

Following a “perfect storm” of fiduciary, financial and managerial problems which plunged the Global Fund into a crisis, the organisation is now undergoing a process of transformation. Both the crisis and the decision to embark on transformation are significant and surprising given that until quite recently, the Fund was generally acclaimed as a grand success.   This article argues that a…

Official reason cited was that the time period for signing a grant had expired The Global Fund has rescinded its approval of a Round 10 TB grant from the Russian Federation. The official reason advanced by the Fund was that the period allotted for negotiations of the grant agreement had expired with no agreement having been signed. However, the real…

Aidspan has published its Annual Report for 2011. This is the first time that Aidspan has formally published an annual report, though it has always provided progress reports to its donors. The report presents a summary of Aidspan’s 2011 Annual Plan and outlines how Aidspan performed against the Plan. It also describes in more detail some of Aidspan’s accomplishments in…