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Two Giants Learning to Dance Together

Two Giants Learning to Dance Together

When you have a donor giving billions of dollars for AIDS, politics inevitably raises its head from time to time. And when you have two such donors, and they’re working out how to dance with each other, the politics gets heavier. This has certainly been the case with the Global Fund and the US’s PEPFAR program. Just under a year…

The First Fifty "Phase 2 Renewals"

The First Fifty "Phase 2 Renewals"

The Global Fund has made its fiftieth decision regarding whether to approve a grant for extension beyond the first two years, known as “Phase 2 Renewal.” For the first time, the Fund is now making public each Grant Scorecard, which contains the originally-confidential evaluation that the Secretariat submitted to the Board when making its recommendations regarding Phase 2. [For details,…

Excerpts from Grant Scorecards

Excerpts from Grant Scorecards

As reported above, the Global Fund Secretariat provides confidential Grant Scorecards to board members during consideration of “Phase 2 renewal” of grants that are approaching the end of their second year. The Grant Scorecards, which contain the Secretarit’s candid comments on the strengths and weaknesses of each grant, are published at www.theglobalfund.org/en/funds_raised/performance after the Phase 2 decisions have been made….

US Withdraws Requirement That Affected Global Fund Grant Recipients

US Withdraws Requirement That Affected Global Fund Grant Recipients

After receiving protests from some US NGOs and queries from the media, Ambassador Randall Tobias, head of the US’s bilateral AIDS program PEPFAR, withdrew a newly-published US requirement which stated that non-governmental recipients of Global Fund grants “must have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution.” The requirement was the latest in a steadily escalating set of conditions placed upon recipients of…

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