In most countries, Global Fund grants are highly commoditized as the largest proportion of the grant investments are used to pay for health and non-health commodities. This means that the supply chain, together with procurement, absorb a significant proportion of grant funds. The extent to which countries handle these two areas is critical to achieving the Global Fund’s mission. As…
At the Board meeting held on 11 and 12 November 2020, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Global Fund reported that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had severely affected its planned operational activities for 2020. As a result, the OIG redirected its resources towards supporting and reviewing the Global Fund’s response to the pandemic. The OIG…
As countries finalize their funding requests to the Global Fund or negotiate their grants for the 2020-2022 allocation cycle, it becomes important to reflect on systemic issues reported in the previous allocation cycle. Our review of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit reports for 2019-2020 reveals that inaccurate and incomplete data is the third leading issue plaguing Global…
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is selecting its next Ombudsman. The Secretariat advertised the position and requested applications (TGF-20-049) to be submitted by 7 August 2020. The Terms of Reference (TORs) list the tasks of the Ombudsman. These include “informal conflict resolution and identification of trends, issues, and concerns within the work environment at the Global…
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…
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 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…
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