GFO is interested in hearing from readers about their experiences with applying to the Fund in Round 5. Did you find the Fund’s application form and guidelines useful? If not, what were the problems? Did you use the PDF version or the Word version of the application form? Did you have any problems with either? Write to David Garmaise (garmaise@aidspan.org),…
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a 60-page report based on a study of the Global Fund that lasted several months. The views of the report are captured in its title, “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Is Responding to Challenges but Needs Better Information and Documentation for Performance-Based Funding.” The GAO is the non-partisan…
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 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,…
The Global Fund says that on Wednesday it will post at www.theglobalfund.org/en/faq a publicly-accessible regularly-updated “Frequently Asked Questions” document about the Round 5 application process, and that it will write to all known potential applicants and CCMs informing them of this.
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….
Eric A. Friedman
Aidspan’s web site (www.aidspan.org), which is normally visited by about 500 people per day, was visited by 2,000 people the day after GFO announced a week ago that the site now provides an “early-warning” system showing for every Global Fund grant how well that grant is performing against its own goals and in relation to other Global Fund grants. In…
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