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ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has published three reports detailing its investigations into various types of misuse of funds and non-compliant expenditures within Global Fund grants in Nigeria, Eswatini, and Papua New Guinea. This article summarizes the reports, highlighting their main findings.
ABSTRACT The Board has approved $316 million in new funding for Nigeria’s HIV and TB programs to implemented by four PRs. Nigeria’s size and disease burden, and the need to maintain and scale up essential services, outweighed serious concerns about operational and systems weaknesses and risks. However, the funding comes with a number of conditions attached. Further, the Secretariat is adopting a differentiated approach to grant management in Nigeria, one that involves (among other things) recruiting state-level fund portfolio managers.
ABSTRACT In its semi-annual progress report, the Office of the Inspector General said that although putting in place corrective actions on a case-by-case basis has been effective, when funds have been misappropriated, a more systematic approach is needed to prevent similar misconduct in other grants that may have similar vulnerabilities. The progress report includes plans for audits in 2016.
ABSTRACT In its semi-annual progress report, the Office of the Inspector General said that although putting in place corrective actions on a case-by-case basis has been effective, when funds have been misappropriated, a more systematic approach is needed to prevent similar misconduct in other grants that may have similar vulnerabilities. The progress report includes plans for audits in 2016.
ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General says that it has found evidence of attempted misappropriation, misuse of grant funds, misrepresentation and anti-competitive and collusive practices related to the implementation of HIV grants to Kazakhstan.
ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has released three more audit reports and a report on a diagnostic review. The OIG identified $3.3 million of unsupported expenditures in one country that it said should be repaid.
ABSTRACT In the first week of August, the Office of the Inspector General released seven new reports covering audits conducted in Burundi, Malawi and Ukraine; and diagnostic reviews undertaken in Eritrea, Gambia, Georgia and Peru. The OIG found no evidence of grant funds having been misappropriated. In the audit of grants to Malawi, the OIG identified expenditures of $4 million that it deemed ineligible or unsupported. Malawi has already agreed to pay back at least $3.3 million.
ABSTRACT The PRs have shown evidence of significant financial management and control weaknesses, episodes of misappropriation and fraud, and losses of grant funds, according to a report issued by the OIG. The OIG concluded that the two governmental PRs were not fit to continue as PRs. It is apparent from the report that some of the PRs disagreed with a number of the audit's findings.
ABSTRACT The board agreed it will appoint an Inspector General to investigate whether there has been fraud, abuse, misappropriation, corruption or mismanagement within the Fund or among grant recipients.
ABSTRACT Clear and forthright quotes on a number of important Fund-related issues.
