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ABSTRACT Fiscal agents are part of the Global Fund’s financial risk management in countries with fiduciary risks. Fiscal agents have been successful at reducing financial risks originating from weak financial management of Global Fund grant implementers. However, fiscal agents are not effective in building implementers’ capacity, contrary to their mandate.
ABSTRACT Staff from the National Tuberculosis Control Program in Bangladesh falsified documents to support training-related expenditures, according to an investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General. The NTP is principal recipient for a TB grant. This is not the first time that it has come under scrutiny.
ABSTRACT An audit of Global Fund grants to Bangladesh rated them as “partially effective,” the second highest rating in the OIG’s four-tier rating scheme. The Office of the Inspector General said that Bangladesh has made significant progress in the fight against the three diseases, but that problems remain. The audit identified significant program and financial management weaknesses in the national TB program.
ABSTRACT In October, the Global Fund Board approved two grants emanating from Bangladesh’s TB funding request. The request was well received by the Technical Review Panel and the Grant Approvals Committee. The two grants will expand case finding interventions, upgrade diagnostics and scale-up a public-private mix approach to TB.
ABSTRACT The Office of the Inspector General has identified expenditures that were not compliant with the grant agreements in three separate investigations. The amounts involved ranged from $56,966 for a malaria grant in Guyana to $311,637 for a TB grant in Bangladesh. The third country was India, where the OIG found non-compliant expenditures of $97,149 in a TB grant.
RÉSUMÉ Au 30 juin 2015, le montant à recouvrer issu des fraudes ou de la mauvaise utilisation des fonds identifié par le Bureau de l'Inspecteur général était de 55 millions de dollars. A la fin décembre 2014, il était de 55.1 million.
ABSTRACT At 30 June 2015, the amount still to be recovered stemming from fraud or improper use of grant monies identified by the Office of the Inspector General was $55.1 million, down from $64.1 million at the end of December 2014.
ABSTRACT At 30 June 2015, the amount still to be recovered stemming from fraud or improper use of grant monies identified by the Office of the Inspector General was $55.1 million, down from $64.1 million at the end of December 2014.
ABSTRACT Hoping to seize on momentum begun in Bangladesh in November 2013 with the decision to recognize a third gender on official documents, the Global Fund-supported Multi-Country South Asia HIV Program is working with national human rights institutions alongside civil society to improve the promotion and protection of human rights for sexual minorities.
ABSTRACT New reports from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) cover audits in Bangladesh, Djibouti and Ghana, and investigations in Djibouti and South Africa. While some fraud was revealed in the implementation of grants in Djibouti, the investigation into one grant in South Africa found no evidence of fraud, misappropriation or mismanagement.
