Sub-recipients

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 A guide on how to manage community-based sub-recipients has been released by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

ABSTRACT New minimum standards for implementers adopted by the Global Fund apply to principal recipients, large sub-recipients, public- or private-sector entities involved in the pharmaceutical and health products procurement and supply chain, and components of the national health system. The minimum standards will apply to early applicants under the new funding model.

ABSTRACT Three senior government officials have been arrested in Mauritania for fraud in connection with Global Fund grants. Investigations have also confirmed systematic fraud by sub-recipients.

ABSTRACT The Fund has temporarily suspended its two grants to Chad because of evidence of misuse of funds and because of inadequate capacity by the Principal Recipient and Sub-Recipients.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund has temporarily suspended all five of its grants to Uganda, after learning of "serious mismanagement of the grants" by the unit within the Ministry of Health that was set up to administer them.

ABSTRACT A draft of the official report from July's Global Fund Partnership Forum is now available at the Fund's web site. Comments or suggestions on the draft recommendations that are submitted to the Fund by August 31 will be forwarded to the Board.