Bernard Rivers
“Providing” Treatment Versus “Supporting” Treatment
A key feature of the Global Fund is that it says it is “results-based” – that it can measure the impact that its grants have, and it can prove to its donors that their money is well-spent. Recently, PEPFAR (the $15 billion US bilateral AIDS program) has had a difficult time coping with some confusions that its published numbers have…
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
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….
SUCCESSES AND FAILURES AMONG GRANTS REVIEWED FOR PHASE 2
During the past month, the Global Fund Secretariat has presented 26 grants to the board for consideration for Phase 2 renewal. For each of these grants, the Fund has provided the board with the results of an extensive and candid review of the grant’s performance thus far. The Secretarit’s review of each grant is contained in two overlapping documents. First…
The Fund’s "Executive Dashboard"
In June 2004, Richard Feachem, the Fund’s Executive Director, informed the board, “We have developed the so-called ‘Executive Dashboard’, an IT-based tracking and reporting tool, which will allow us to monitor progress against agreed targets on an ongoing basis and intervene early when there are signs of slippage.” A year later, the Executive Dashboard was made available from the Fund’s…
Aidspan Website Adds Graphical Representation of Grant Delays
The website of Aidspan, the NGO that publishes GFO, now provides a graphical record of changes over time in the extent to which various groups of Global Fund grants are ahead of or behind schedule. The graphs can be reached by clicking on “Graphs” near the top of www.aidspan.org/grants/totals. One of the graphs is reproduced below. (If it is not…
PHASE 2 GRANT RENEWAL: A SYSTEM THAT BACKFIRED
Bernard Rivers