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FIRST GRANTS UNDER THE FULL NFM ROLLOUT ARE ABOUT TO BE SIGNED
GFO Issue 252

FIRST GRANTS UNDER THE FULL NFM ROLLOUT ARE ABOUT TO BE SIGNED

Author:

David Garmaise

Article Type:
News

Article Number: 3

Application submitted to the Emergency Fund to deal with Syrian refugee crisis

ABSTRACT History will be made shortly as the first two grants under the full NFM roll-out are signed. Both grants are from a Moldova HIV concept note. In a separate development, the Fundā€™s newly established Emergency Fund has received an application to provide HIV and TB services to Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

The first two grants under the full rollout of the new funding model (NFM) should soon be approved for signing by the Global Fund Board. Both grants emanate from an HIV concept note submitted by Moldova during the first window on 15 May 2014.

The concept note took just four months to work its way through the system, reaching the second and final review by the Grant Approvals Committee on 18 September. The Moldova disbursement-ready grant agreement documents were scheduled to be sent to the Board before the end of September.

Meanwhile, the first application to the Global Fundā€™s Emergency Fund, established as a special initiative under the NFM to fight the three diseases in emergency situations, was received in mid-September. It is designed to respond to the TB challenge posed to Syria’s neighbors by the massive influx of refugees fleeing the nearly four-year old crisis in the country.

The above information was contained in the Global Fundā€™s NFM Progress Update for September.

Concept notes

The Global Fund is still anticipating that about half of the 280 concept notes expected to be submitted during this allocation period will be reviewed by the Technical Review Panel in 2014, and that these notes will represents 68% of the total allocation, prior to any incentive finding awards. This prediction comes despite a general trend among CCMs who have delayed submission of their concept notes.

CCMs were asked to ā€œregisterā€ for a particular review window so that the Secretariat, the TRP and the GAC could plan their workload. However, CCMs are not committed to the windows for which they registered. The Secretariat says that for Windows 1-3, these shifts have resulted in a ā€œslippage rateā€ of about 47%.

See the table for a summary of the number of concept notes submitted in the first three windows for 2014, and the number of notes expected in the last window of 2014 and in the four windows for 2015.

Table: Concept note submission schedule, showing approximate value of submissions

Window

SubmissionĀ deadline

ConceptĀ NotesĀ reviewed,Ā screenedĀ orĀ expected

ApproximateĀ value

1

15Ā MayĀ 2014

10Ā notesĀ reviewed

$0.92Ā billion

2

15Ā JuneĀ 2014

23Ā notesĀ reviewed

$1.80Ā billion

3

15Ā Sep.Ā 2014

41Ā notesĀ beingĀ screened

$3.22Ā billion

4

15Ā Oct.Ā 2014

67Ā notesĀ expected

$3.97Ā billion

TotalsĀ forĀ 2015

141Ā notesĀ reviewed,Ā beingĀ screenedĀ orĀ expected

$9.88Ā billion

5

15Ā Jan,Ā 2015

46Ā notesĀ expected

$1.72Ā billion

6

15Ā AprilĀ 2015

33Ā notesĀ expected

$860Ā million

7

15Ā Aug.Ā 2015

4Ā notesĀ expected

$580Ā million

8

15Ā Oct.Ā 2015

3Ā notesĀ expected

$78Ā million

TotalsĀ 2014-2015Ā combined

227Ā notesĀ reviewed,Ā beingĀ screenedĀ orĀ expected

$13.12Ā billion

Notes:

1.Ā A number of concept notes have not registered for any window yet and so are not included in this table.

2.The numbers expected for Windows 4-8 are tentative and are subject to change.

There is only one other window in this allocation period: 15 April 2016.

Application concerning Syrian refugees

An application for a grant drawing on funds in the Emergency Fund has been submitted, following the failure of an earlier attempt to address the Syrian refugee crisis through the submission of an expression of interest for a regional grant (seeĀ GFO article). The expression of interest, which was submitted by a cluster of UN and international agencies, was seeking $10 million. At the time, both the applicants and the Global Fund indicated that the Emergency Fund might be a better channel for the request. The size of the Emergency Fund is $30 million.

Concerns raised by NGOs

In a covering note for a discussion paper released on 29 September, the Developed Country NGO delegation expressed concern about what they termed ā€œsignificant confusion and contradictory information being received about core elements of the NFM”. The delegation was referring to the need for concept notes to be comprehensive and inclusive, building on fully costed and prioritized national strategies.

The discussion paper recommended that the Global Fund and technical assistance providers offer clearer, more consistent and more encouraging messaging.

Other items

The September progress report provided an update on the planning for two of the special initiatives approved by the Board as part of the NFM. One was the Emergency Fund; the other was the Principal Recipient Grant-Making Capacity Building Fund.

The progress report also provided an update on the Key Populations Engagement Pilot, an initiative launched in 2013 to support the greater involvement of key populations and representatives of people living with the diseases within CCMs. Some of the 10 countries involved in the pilot have made good progress, while others are struggling to find a suitable mechanism to implement the pilot.

In addition, the progress report revealed that the Secretariat has agreed the program split for 47 applicants, up from 40 at the time of the August NFM update.

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