Bernard Rivers
STAKEHOLDERS IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION GRAPPLE WITH HOW TO DO MORE WITH LESS
Tinatin Zardiashvili and David Garmaise
EECA CIVIL SOCIETY JOINING FORCES TO CALL FOR DOMESTIC SPEND ON HARM REDUCTION
Tinatin Zardiashvili
GLOBAL FUND PROVIDES RESULTS OF ELIGIBILITY SCREENING FOR TFM PROPOSALS
As it has done for past rounds of funding, the Global Fund Secretariat assessed all proposals submitted under the Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM) to ensure they met the minimum requirements for coordinating mechanisms and non-CCM proposals. There were 61 proposals from 48 applicants. All 61 proposals were deemed to be eligible; none were screened out. In contrast to previous screening…
REPORT IDENTIFIES CHALLENGES IN GRANT IMPLEMENTATION
The Developing Countries NGO Delegation on the Global Fund Board has released a report on challenges in grant implementation. The report is based on input collected in March 2012 from implementers in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The report identified 14 challenges, including the following: Reporting requirements. The Secretariat makes frequent changes in…
REACTION TO SPAIN’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL FUND IS MIXED
Salud por Derecho (Salud), a Spanish right to health foundation, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have described the contribution to the Global Fund recently announced by Spain as “unreasonably low.” As reported in a GFO article on 25 July: Around the time of the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on 22-27 July, Spain announced that it would contribute €10 million (about $12.1…
Strong partnership and strong will needed to avert public health crisis in Crimea
Karen Madoyan