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ABSTRACT The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network is implementing a $6 million regional programme which seeks to facilitate effective regional advocacy for harm reduction among injection drug users across five countries in EECA.
ABSTRACT An audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) shows that Kenya has made significant progress against HIV, TB and malaria. This is partly due to the country’s ability to successfully procure and distribute Global Fund-supported health products. The OIG, however, found issues in the quality of services, measurement of grant performance and grant implementation in the context of devolution of health services from the central government to 47 county governments following constitutional changes in 2010.
ABSTRACT Our review of the Office of the Inspector General of the Global Fund’s 20 audit reports for 2019-2020 reveals ten recurring issues. The two main issues are gaps in oversight and assurance arrangements, and challenges in the design and implementation of interventions.
ABSTRACT In Zambia, one of the countries hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, an umbrella organization of faith-based health facilities has been pivotal in the fight against the disease: the Churches Health Association of Zambia. An indigenous organization, CHAZ has been a successful Principal Recipient of Global Fund grants since 2003. Its leaders credit this longevity and their programs’ success to their belief in God and themselves.
ABSTRACT At the September 2019 annual retreat of the Global Fund Implementer Voting Group in Dakar, Senegal, the group’s ten constituencies, including governments and communities- and civil-society delegations, discussed areas that had been identified as priorities for 2017-2019. These included how to improve the Implementer Group’s effectiveness, absorptive capacity, sustainability and transition, and human rights and gender equality. The retreat also included participants from the Secretariat, including the Global Fund’s Executive Director for some sessions.
ABSTRACT Acknowledging that there are implementation challenges associated with a Mali malaria grant that it recently recommended for approval, the Grant Approvals Committee said that it welcomed the Secretariat’s plans “to identify bottlenecks, and holistically review and harmonize the controls in place with the aim of balancing risk mitigation and effective grant implementation.” The concern about balancing risk mitigation and grant implementation has been raised before in other grants.
ABSTRACT The Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division of the University of Kwazulu-Natal has just published a report synthesizing findings from three country case studies from Eastern and Southern Africa, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of its work to support initiatives improving the impact of HIV programmes in the region.
ABSTRACT Guinea has faced several significant challenges in implementing its Global Fund grants. Some challenges were inherent to the Global Fund grant policy implementation. Others were related to the country's political and epidemiological contexts. As a low-income country with a weak health system, Guinea needs to spend its co-financing funds optimally. Solutions to most challenges require stronger country ownership and an investment in health systems.
ABSTRACT At the dawn of the CCM evolution project’s in-country activities, the Global Fund's CCM hub organized a workshop in Morocco where consultants, who will support countries participating in the pilot, were oriented on the project’s objectives, approaches as well as roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders.
ABSTRACT “Exchange for Change” is the title of two workshops designed to explore common bottlenecks in implementing Global Fund–financed health programs and to design novel solutions to address them. The workshops, in Malawi and Burkina Faso, were organized by the global GIZ program BACKUP Health. Communications, transparency and accountability were recurring themes of the workshops.
