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CSOS SUBMIT POSITION PAPER ON NEW FUNDING MODEL

CSOS SUBMIT POSITION PAPER ON NEW FUNDING MODEL

Twelve civil society organisations (CSOs), most of them from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, have submitted a joint position paper on the development of a new funding model for the Global Fund. The paper was submitted to the Global Fund Board’s Strategy, Investment and Impact Committee (SIIC) which is meeting in Geneva from 29–31 August to discuss the new funding…

GLOBAL FUND PROVIDES RESULTS OF ELIGIBILITY SCREENING FOR TFM PROPOSALS

GLOBAL FUND PROVIDES RESULTS OF ELIGIBILITY SCREENING FOR TFM PROPOSALS

As it has done for past rounds of funding, the Global Fund Secretariat assessed all proposals submitted under the Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM) to ensure they met the minimum requirements for coordinating mechanisms and non-CCM proposals. There were 61 proposals from 48 applicants. All 61 proposals were deemed to be eligible; none were screened out. In contrast to previous screening…

DISEASE-SPECIFIC OBSERVATIONS FROM THE TRP’S REVIEW OF TFM PROPOSALS

DISEASE-SPECIFIC OBSERVATIONS FROM THE TRP’S REVIEW OF TFM PROPOSALS

Sharp reduction in MARPs activities In the report to the Board on Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM) proposals, the Technical Review Panel (TRP) made observations specific to each of the disease components. This article provides a summary of these observations. (In a separate article, we describe the lessons learned identified by the TRP with respect to all proposals.) HIV/AIDS MARPs. The…

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE REVIEW OF TFM PROPOSALS

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE REVIEW OF TFM PROPOSALS

In the report to the Board on TFM proposals, the Technical Review Panel (TRP) devoted a large section to lessons learned from its review of the proposals. This article provides a summary of the lessons learned that apply to all proposals. (In a separate article, we describe the observations of the TRP that relate to the proposals for each of…

REPORT IDENTIFIES CHALLENGES IN GRANT IMPLEMENTATION

REPORT IDENTIFIES CHALLENGES IN GRANT IMPLEMENTATION

The Developing Countries NGO Delegation on the Global Fund Board has released a report on challenges in grant implementation. The report is based on input collected in March 2012 from implementers in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The report identified 14 challenges, including the following: Reporting requirements. The Secretariat makes frequent changes in…

CSOS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT NEW FUNDING MODEL DISCUSSIONS

CSOS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT NEW FUNDING MODEL DISCUSSIONS

Concerns have been raised by civil society organisations (CSOs) about the process being followed to develop a new funding model for the Global Fund, and about the fact that most of the discussions have focused on formulas for allocating funding. For the most part, discussions about the new funding model are taking place within the Global Fund Board’s Strategy, Investment…

AIDSPAN HAS A NEW WEBSITE AND A NEW LOGO

AIDSPAN HAS A NEW WEBSITE AND A NEW LOGO

For ten years, Aidspan has had a website that has served us well, enabling us to carry out our mandate as a watchdog of the Global Fund. Through the website, we have been able to provide access to our many Aidspan guides and reports and our hundreds of GFO articles. The website has gained a wide audience over the years…

RWANDA’S HEALTH MINISTER CALLS FOR MORE DONATIONS TO GLOBAL FUND

RWANDA’S HEALTH MINISTER CALLS FOR MORE DONATIONS TO GLOBAL FUND

Many of the world’s largest economies are not fulfilling their financial pledges to the Global Fund, according to Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s health minister. In a commentary distributed to media around the world by Project Syndicate, the minister, who was chair of the Rwandan country coordinating mechanism from 2008 to 2011 and who is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, said that…

TFM RESULTS, BY COUNTRY

TFM RESULTS, BY COUNTRY

The following tables provide the results of the Global Fund Board’s decisions on the proposals submitted under the Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM). Table 1 covers the country-based proposals, and Table 2 the regional proposals. Table 1: TFM results, by country Notes: 1. In the following table, C/Approved = Conditionally approved. 2. For approved and conditionally approved proposals, the costs shown in the last…

TFM FUNDING DECISIONS ANNOUNCED

TFM FUNDING DECISIONS ANNOUNCED

The Global Fund Board has approved 45 proposals submitted under the Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM) with a two-year upper ceiling worth $419.8 million. The Board has conditionally approved a further 11 proposals for a two-year upper ceiling worth $91.2 million. The total two-year upper ceiling of approved and conditionally approved proposals is $511 million. (The term “upper ceiling” means that…

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