Editor’s Note: This explanation of the broad elements of the new funding model is based on the decision point adopted by the Board. Not everything in the decision point is clear, so this explanation includes some interpretation by Aidspan. Readers are advised to check with the Global Fund Secretariat if they have questions. As reported on GFO Live, at its meeting in…
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…
WHY ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT THE NEW FUNDING MODEL? – A LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
At the recent Global Fund Board meeting, considerable discussion and energy was devoted to the design of the new funding model (NFM), particularly concerning the issue of how funding would be allocated. The discussions took place during the pre-meeting (12 September) and on both days of the Board meeting itself (13 and 14). Almost 12 hours had been set aside,…
MAIN DECISIONS MADE AT BOARD MEETING
Editor’s Note: Included in this summary is the Board decision on the broad elements of the new funding model. On 13–14 September 2012, the Global Fund Board held its 27th meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. GFO was present, with observer status. The main decisions made at the meeting, in chronological order, were as follows. (For precise wording of what the Board agreed, see…
CSOS SUBMIT POSITION PAPER ON NEW FUNDING MODEL
Twelve civil society organisations (CSOs), most of them from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, have submitted a joint position paper on the development of a new funding model for the Global Fund. The paper was submitted to the Global Fund Board’s Strategy, Investment and Impact Committee (SIIC) which is meeting in Geneva from 29–31 August to discuss the new funding…
CSOS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT NEW FUNDING MODEL DISCUSSIONS
Concerns have been raised by civil society organisations (CSOs) about the process being followed to develop a new funding model for the Global Fund, and about the fact that most of the discussions have focused on formulas for allocating funding. For the most part, discussions about the new funding model are taking place within the Global Fund Board’s Strategy, Investment…
DON’T COMPROMISE YOUR PRINCIPLES IN THE NEW FUNDING MODEL, GLOBAL FUND TOLD
Activists disrupt session at AIDS 2012 on the future of the Global Fund Jaramillo signs pledge to oppose the use of funding caps The Global Fund’s new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from individual countries. This was the message delivered by a group of activists on 26 July at a session on…
GLOBAL FUND TO IMPLEMENT NEW FUNDING ARCHITECTURE
Bernard Rivers
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: WILL THE GLOBAL FUND’S NEW FUNDING MODEL FOSTER COUNTRY AMBITIONS?
Kerstin Akerfeldt and Mit Philips