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GLOBAL FUND-SUPPORTED NEW IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS AND COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE ARE ‘PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE’, OIG SAYS
In this second audit of Global Fund grants to Côte d’Ivoire, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the newly created program management unit lacks a clearly defined vision and that health commodities at health facility level are not safe from shrinkage. Also, Côte d’Ivoire has made little progress against malaria targets, and HIV and tuberculosis (TB) interventions require…
THE OUTGOING INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE GLOBAL FUND SPEAKS CANDIDLY ABOUT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Mouhamadou Diagne (MD), the Inspector General of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, is leaving his position to become the Vice-President of Integrity at the World Bank, according to a statement released by the World Bank on 1 May 2020. MD, as he is often referred to, has led the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) since March 2015….
THE GLOBAL FUND REACHES THE ‘EMBEDDED’ LEVEL OF MATURITY ON THE OIG MATURITY SCALE, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORTS TO BOARD
The Global Fund’s Inspector General Mouhamadou Diagne, in his 2019 annual report to the Global Fund Board, commended the Global Fund’s significant impact in accelerating the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) work in 2019 established that the Global Fund investments have helped decrease mortality and infection rates across the three diseases….
COVID-19 DERAILS IMPLEMENTATION OF AGREED MANAGEMENT ACTIONS, THE GLOBAL FUND BOARD HEARS
The Global Fund reported slow progress in the implementation of agreed management actions (AMAs).It reported a rise in the number of open and overdue AMAs as of March 2020, according to a joint progress report by the Global Fund Secretariat and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This rise follows an all-time low number of open and overdue AMAs in…
OIG INVESTIGATIONS INTO GLOBAL FUND GRANTS IN NIGERIA AND INDONESIA CONFIRM NON-COMPLIANT EXPENDITURES TOTALLING MORE THAN $200,000
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has published a joint report on the findings from two salary-related investigations, conducted in Nigeria in March 2019 and in Indonesia in May 2019, in which the OIG found non-compliant expenditures of $202,240. In Nigeria, the OIG investigated a salary kickback scheme that resulted in the misappropriation of $166,930, and in Indonesia, the…
GLOBAL FUND’S PROCESS OF RECOVERING NON-COMPLIANT EXPENDITURES IS ‘PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE’, OIG SAYS
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the Global Fund’s Recovery Management processes, aiming to provide reasonable assurance on the effectiveness of processes and controls to identify, resolve, monitor, and report on amounts from Global Fund grants as a result of non-compliant expenditures. The OIG identified gaps in the identification and notification of potentially recoverable amounts…
GLOBAL FUND-SUPPORTED HIV PROGRAM AND SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE REQUIRE IMPROVEMENTS, OIG SAYS
In this fourth audit of Global Fund grants to Zimbabwe, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found anomalies in HIV data, low coverage of viral load testing, low performance in testing for HIV among children, and low warehouse capacity. As a result, the OIG rates the country’s HIV program as ‘partially effective’ in each of these four identified areas. The…
GLOBAL FUND GRANTS IN ANGOLA ARE “PERFORMING POORLY,” OIG SAYS
In this second audit of Global Fund grants in Angola, the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General found that the country’s grants are performing poorly. New infection rates and mortality rates increased for HIV, TB, and malaria compared to the regional average, and even to the country’s own rates in 2012. The OIG audit opinion was that domestic financing, community…
LESOTHO’S HIV AND TB PROGRAMS FACE MULTIPLE CHALLENGES AROUND GOVERNANCE AND OVERSIGHT, OIG SAYS
The Office of the Inspector General’s first audit of Global Fund grants to Lesotho concluded that quality of services overall was ‘partially effective’ but that program oversight and governance ‘need significant improvement’. The audit report, published on 28 February, paints a picture of fragmented HIV and TB programs, implemented by two Principal Recipients (the Ministry of Health and Pact) whose…
