Karanja Kinyanjui
OIG RELEASES REPORT ON DIAGNOSTIC REVIEW FOR GAMBIA GRANTS
Karanja Kinyanjui
DIAGNOSTIC REVIEW OF GRANTS TO PERU PRAISES GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF GLOBAL FUND PROGRAMMES
The government of Peru has taken up funding for many activities that were initiated with Global Fund support over the past eight years and has achieved considerable success in the fight against the three diseases. This was one of the conclusions of a diagnostic review of Global Fund grants to Peru conducted by the Office of Inspector General. The review…
AIDSPAN LAUNCHES CONSULTATION ON DESIGN OF NEW FUNDING MODEL
On 12 October 2012, the Global Fund Secretariat submitted a paper containing options and recommendations for the design of the new funding model to the Strategy, Investment and Impact Committee (SIIC) of the Global Fund Board. The SIIC will discuss the paper at its meeting in Geneva of 24–26 October 2012. At its meeting in September, the Board approved in…
OIG RELEASES REPORTS ON AUDITS IN NAMIBIA AND KYRGYZSTAN, AND ON A DIAGNOSTIC REVIEW IN THE CARIBBEAN
On 2 October 2012, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released three reports, two on audits conducted in Namibia and Kyrgyzstan, and one on a diagnostic review undertaken at the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM). Namibia The OIG said that while it noted a number of good practices and achievements as a result of the grants in Namibia, it also…
IS THERE SCOPE FOR RISK?
Anyone who has scrutinized reports from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will have noticed that in the last couple of years the tone has become less strident and more nuanced. The new tone is welcome, but I have a quibble about some of the new language. Somewhere along the way, the OIG decided, or was told, that it…
FUTURE OF AMFM TO BE DECIDED AT GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING IN NOVEMBER
The future of the Affordable Medicines Facility–malaria (AMFm) will be decided at the Global Fund Board meeting on 14–15 November 2012. The outcome appears anything but certain. The AMFm was launched as a two-year pilot phase in April 2009 and began operations in July 2010. The AMFm is hosted by the Global Fund but its programme funding comes from other…
