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…
On 14-15 November 2019, the Global Fund Board held its 42nd meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. A ‘pre-day’ of information, discussion and interactive sessions was held on 13 November. Aidspan and the GFO/OFM were present, with observer status. The main decisions made at the meeting, in chronological order, are described below. (For precise wording of what the Board agreed, see the decision…
GFO: What made this Replenishment a unique ‘moment’ in the life of the Global Fund? DS: The result of this Replenishment, $14 billion, is exceptional. At the beginning of the Global Fund, we would have never imagined this was possible. This result was achieved thanks to the unprecedented mobilization of all partners: on the one hand, the traditional donors (G7, EU,…
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