Based on advise from the Technical Review Panel (TRP), the Board divided eligible Round 7 proposals into five Categories, as follows:

• Category 1: Approved proposals requiring no or minor clarifications, which need to be provided within 8 weeks and then given a final approval by the TRP Chair and/or Vice-Chair.
• Category 2: Proposals that are provisionally approved subject to the required clarifications being provided within a limited timeframe (6 weeks for the applicant to provide an initial detailed response to the TRP queries, and a further 3 months to obtain the final TRP approval should further clarifications be requested). The primary reviewer and secondary reviewer as well as TRP Chair and /or Vice-Chair need to give final approval.
• Category 2B: Proposals that are treated as those in Category 2, but are regarded as being relatively weak, on grounds of technical merit and/or issues of feasibility and likelihood of effective implementation.
• Category 3: Proposals not approved in their present form, though applicants are encouraged to resubmit in some future Round following major revision.
• Category 4: Proposals that are rejected, with applicants not encouraged to resubmit in any similar form.

The number of Round 7 grants per Category was as follows:
Table 5: Round 7 results by Category

Round 7 results by applicant were as in Tables 6 and 7, below. Grants approved in Euros have had their values converted to US dollars at US $1.44092 per Euro, which is the UN official exchange rate that applied on 1 November.
Table 6: Round 7 results for country-level applicants

Table 7: Round 7 results for regional applicants
For further details on the approved proposals, see www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/board/sixteenth; for the non-approved proposals, see www.theglobalfund.org/en/apply/current/round7_notapproved. The full text of each Round 7 proposal is accessible at these links. An applicant may appeal the board's decision if the applicant submitted an eligible proposal for a particular component in both Round 6 and Round 7 and was not approved in either case. The appeal must show that the recommendation made by the TRP regarding the Round 7 proposal was based on a "significant and obvious" error. The appeal must be filed with the Secretariat no later than 28 days from when the applicant receives written notice from the Secretariat regarding the board's Round 7 decision. For further details regarding the appeals procedure, see www.theglobalfund.org/en/apply/proposals/appeals.