The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is developing its post-2022 strategic plan. The Global Fund has requested input from partners, implementers, and other stakeholders to help identify emerging challenges and opportunities that will be critical for its next strategy. The Africa Constituency Bureau (ACB), which supports the representation of 46 African countries in their engagement with the…
Christelle Boulanger, Atiqa Chajai
When the Global Fund was born… When the Global Fund was born as a response to an emergency, it was clear that this new institution would be governed by rules different from those of existing organizations. We wondered about the modus vivendi, the model business for a “cash kitty” created in an emergency, responding to the needs identified by the…
Behind the Global Fund’s particularly utilitarian definition of CCMs (“Country Coordinating Mechanism”) lies a very complex reality. Indeed, the CCM concept is a radical shift from the traditional “donor/beneficiary” relationship. The anthropological concept of a “gift” provides insight into the origins of the unresolved tensions that generally exist between donor and recipient (Henkel and Stirrat, 1997). The Global Fund is…
GFO: Please tell our readers a bit about Emily Hughes? EH: I arrived in Geneva in late June to take on the role of the new CCM Hub Manager at the Global Fund. This chapter follows a great three years in Malawi where I served as the PEPFAR Coordinator along with my US government colleagues, working in partnership with the…
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Global Fund country coordinating mechanisms are good; they could be better
Ida Hakizinka and Djesika Amendah