The Global Fund recently published on its website the 2020 Eligibility List of countries eligible to receive an allocation in the next funding cycle. It has also published an updated Projected Transitions List, identifying countries it expects to transition from Global Fund allocations, with projections by disease component. The 2020 Eligibility List and the updated Projected Transitions List are accessible on the Global Fund’s website. The…
The Global Fund Board has approved changes to the composition of its three standing committees – the Strategy Committee (SC); the Audit and Finance Committee (AFC); and the Ethics and Governance Committee (EGC). The Board also approved changes to the selection processes for both the leadership and the membership of the committees. Some of the changes were adopted by electronic…
In French-speaking Africa, the mandate for accountability for public and donor resources devoted to the health sector rests, usually, with three institutions: the Court of Accounts, the General Inspectorate of the State, and the Inspectorate of Health. Currently, none of these institutions is involved in the control, oversight or audit of Global Fund grants in any francophone African country. Government…
In an investigation of Global Fund grants to Senegal, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that Global Fund monies destined for the purchase of tuberculosis diagnostic equipment, for Senegal’s Tuberculosis/Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health grant, were unwittingly transferred to fraudsters posing as the Principal Recipient’s (PR) supplier. The fraudsters hacked the email account of a PR procurement…
An advisory review by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has identified steps the Global Fund can take to strengthen its efforts to remove human rights-related barriers to accessing services for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, even as it acknowledges that the Fund is “one of the leading organizations to include the removal of human rights-related barriers to services among…
In this second audit of Global Fund grants in Togo, the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General found that the country has made significant strides in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria. The Togolese results are remarkable compared to the West and Central Africa regional average, according to the audit report. The OIG audit opinion was that the Togolese…
The 42nd Global Fund Board meeting discussed the Sustainability, Transition, and Co-financing (STC) policy as part of the ‘pre-day’ agenda, in the form of an “interactive discussion”. This discussion reaffirmed the importance of this policy and its implementation. The STC policy aims to invest Global Fund monies better so that countries can maintain and scale up service coverage for the three diseases…
Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) that took part in the CCM Evolution pilot have demonstrated an enhanced capacity to oversee grants and engage with other national structures and coordination platforms, according to a Secretariat report to the Board, at the Global Fund Board meeting held on 14-15 November. However, the report noted that these CCMs are still falling short in ensuring…
In his second annual report to the Global Fund Board since taking office in early 2019, Peter Sands began his address to the meeting by hailing the recent success of the Sixth Replenishment Conference in Lyon, where the Fund raised $14 billion. Sands said it is now up to all to turn the Replenishment campaign hashtag #StepUpTheFight into reality. Invoking…
Initiatives to bolster Supply Operations were at the center of the Global Fund’s 42nd Board Meeting in Geneva, which concluded Friday, November 15. The Board was updated on progress toward, and remaining challenges in, implementing the Market Shaping Strategy (MSS), which aims to improve short- and long-term affordability and supply continuity of health products. The Board also approved the evolution of a pilot…
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