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ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved three Round 7 proposals whose original rejection had been appealed by the applicants. The newly approved proposals are from Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Zambia.
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Bernard Rivers, founder of Aidspan and of GFO, returns briefly from several years away to consider four problems – two new and two old – that plague the Global Fund. What will it take for the Global Fund to recognize that these problems urgently need to be addressed?
ABSTRACT A new study from GNP+, the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, offers a window into whether people with AIDS are truly playing the participatory role in CCMs that the Fund envisioned.
ABSTRACT The board expressed concern over the current shortage of funds for Round 5.
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ABSTRACT A committee of the Global Fund's board has chosen a shortlist of five people for consideration as the Fund's new Executive Director, to succeed Richard Feachem. They are a former government minister from Norway, the French HIV/AIDS ambassador, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives, a senior US television executive, and a senior UNAIDS official from Mali.
ABSTRACT This article is the first of a series on the latest version of the Global Fund Operational Policy Manual. The manual comprises 18 Operational Policy Notes and 7 Operational Procedures relating to grant life cycle processes. It still makes for difficult reading and requires a lot more attention to detail. From the perspective of an outsider or even a new Global Fund staff member, it looks to be very user unfriendly and could do with professional reworking.
ABSTRACT The Board Retreat of 8 July 2022 did not specifically discuss preparations for the implementation of the forthcoming Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028. However, the Strategy Committee’s background paper to the Board provided an update on how plans for operationalizing the Strategy were progressing. As expected, there was plenty of stakeholder feedback on this topic.
ABSTRACT There is so much happening in 2022 that the Global Fund Board has asked for more meetings this year to address the topics requiring more attention. It also wants to discuss how best to “communicate transparent, routine performance and results data”. But in this regard the Global Fund’s openness has worsened, not improved, over the years. Transparency has gone backwards. Is the pot calling the kettle black?
