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ABSTRACT Fiscal agents are part of the Global Fund’s financial risk management in countries with fiduciary risks. Fiscal agents have been successful at reducing financial risks originating from weak financial management of Global Fund grant implementers. However, fiscal agents are not effective in building implementers’ capacity, contrary to their mandate.
ABSTRACT Since the Kenya Red Cross Society became a principal recipient for an HIV grant in 2011, the grant has been consistently rated A1 or A2. This article describes the reasons for the society’s success.
ABSTRACT In a report on its audit of grants to Haiti, the Office of the Inspector General said that the Secretariat and the principal recipient have designed financial assurance and implementation arrangements to ensure efficient and effective use of grant funds. However, the OIG stated, there are inadequacies in the way programs are assessed and in related capacity building. Together with other factors such as delayed signing of sub-recipient contracts, the OIG said, this “may have contributed to low programmatic performance in the first year of grant implementation.”
ABSTRACT Two constituencies representing countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa met over two days, from 31 October to 1 November 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda to prepare for the 36th Global Fund Board meeting. They discussed emerging issues concerning absorption capacity and current functioning of the CCMs.
ABSTRACT Civil society principal recipients in Africa have committed to learn, share and engage with each other through a continent-wide community of practice, aimed at improving community responses by strengthening civil society implementers.
ABSTRACT During an Aidspan regional roundtable held in early August, watchdogs representing more than 30 organizations spoke candidly about their struggles in securing funding – making their engagement in the Global Fund system a lifeline for their futures. How to manage conflicts of interest now that there is that engagement, however, remains relatively unclear.
ABSTRACT A new management dashboard will provide principal recipients with an overview of grants’ progress towards meeting performance targets. While others are nervous about the greater transparency created by publicly shared dashboard data, others find that this transparency encourages healthy competition by encouraging poorly performing SRs to emulate better performers.
ABSTRACT Aidspan is pleased to launch the following research paper highlighting some of the main areas of conflict of interest within country coordination mechanisms that can compromise the process of principal recipient selection or grant implementation.
ABSTRACT Somalia has a high burden of multi-drug-resistant TB, with an overall rate of 10% and a rate of 40% amongst the re-treatment cases. World Vision International Somalia, principal recipient for the Global Fund’s TB grants, says that the first medicines to treat MDR-TB are on their way.
ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has uncovered what it calls “credible and substantial evidence” that two suppliers for programmes supported by Global Fund grants in Georgia worked together to steer contracts to each other, and that they were assisted in this effort by several staff members of the principal recipient. The PR denies the allegations and says that it is arranging for an “independent” audit.
