Recovers

ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General recommended that the Global Fund Secretariat recover funds from Papua New Guinea that were misused by the National Department of Health (NDoH).

ABSTRACT Twenty percent of the $118 million in losses identified by the Office of the Inspector General has been recovered so far, according to a report released by the Global Fund. The Secretariat is continuing to develop policies and guidelines on the recovery process.

ABSTRACT Although the Global Fund Secretariat says that it has taken measures to speed up the recovery of amounts identified as “losses” by the Office of the Inspector General, few details have been provided. As David Garmaise reports in this article, a losses and recoveries report is supposed to be provided to the Board at every in-person meeting, but has not been provided at the last four meetings.

ABSTRACT The power relationship between the Global Fund and a principal recipient is sometimes as unequal as that between an elephant and a mouse, says Bernard Rivers. This imbalance starts with the “negotiation” of the grant agreement. It is also reflected in the way the Fund has handled recommendations from the Office of the Inspector General, arising from audits and investigations, that certain PRs be required to reimburse sums of money.

ABSTRACT Concerns have been raised about the interpretation and application of the Global Fund’s Indirect Cost Recovery policy. This article describes the concerns and provides responses from the Global Fund Secretariat.

ABSTRACT Three years after terminating its grant agreements with the Tropical Disease Foundation, principal recipient for five grants in the Philippines, following a finding by the Office of the Inspector General of $1.77 million in “unauthorised expenditures,” the Global Fund has reversed its demand that the funds need to be repaid.

ABSTRACT On 31 October 2011, the Office of the Inspector General released the final report of an audit on 12 grants in Sri Lanka, involving three principal recipients. The OIG identified what it called "losses" of $2.6 million. Two of the PRs disputed some of the OIG's findings.

ABSTRACT South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign has recovered about $40,000 in Global Fund money that one of its employees stole. TAC has terminated the employee, who faces a possible jail sentence.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund's decision to temporarily suspend its grants to Uganda has been the dominant story in the Ugandan media during the past two weeks. The government has set up a formal commission of inquiry led by the country's chief judge, and has said that if necessary it will recover lost money by selling the property of those found guilty of misappropriating it.