country dialogue

ABSTRACT The Global Fund has recently published two reports that highlight two areas of significant interest for its stakeholders. The first report describes the results of a Thematic Review of Global Fund Community Health Investments based on in-depth reviews of five countries. The second report presents the findings of a Global Fund survey that assessed applicants’ experience of the 2020–2022 country dialogue and the funding request development processes.

ABSTRACT The Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations has published a report based on a survey across seven countries in the region, examining the degree and nature of civil society and community engagement in the Global Fund’s country dialogue processes. The report notes overall improvement compared to 2015, but highlights the persistence of some of the same issues, and makes recommendations to address them.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund is asking people who were involved in country dialogues and developing funding requests in the first window of applications for the 2017-2019 funding cycle to provide feedback by completing a survey.

ABSTRACT A report released by the Global Fund, entitled How We Engage: Stories of Effective Community Engagement on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, contains eight case studies. This article provides information on five of the case studies – i.e. the studies that were country-specific.

ABSTRACT Although The Global Fund has succeeded in raising awareness of community, rights and gender issues, and in getting these issue included in country dialogues and concept notes, there are still challenges in translating these achievements into impact in programs on the ground. This information was included in a report provided to the Board at its meeting in Abidjan on 26-27 April.

ABSTRACT Participation by key populations in the applications process is weak, according to a survey conducted by African Men for Sexual Health and Rights, and it is diminishing as countries advance through the different stages.

ABSTRACT Malawi is looking to put a financial scandal at the National AIDS Commission behind it and move into the next phase of its HIV response. But the country faces other challenges, amid complaints from civil society that they are under-represented in activities foreseen in a new grant proposal to the Global Fund for $574 million.

ABSTRACT In its first update on the new funding model for 2015, and ultimately the last stand-alone update it will provide, the Global Fund offered a look back at the roll-out of the mechanism aiming to direct the greatest resources to those countries with the highest disease burden and least ability to pay.

ABSTRACT A new series of briefing documents prepared by the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health has been shared with 17 countries that are eligible for Global Fund support for HIV programming. The documents aim to provide key populations with the information they need to get involved at all stages of the new funding model process.

ABSTRACT Hard choices accompanied the submission of Russia's first HIV concept note under the NGO rule: should the priority be service delivery (including harm reduction and prevention services) or advocacy to change restrictive policies on harm reduction? Country dialogue exposed the fault lines between the two camps as the clock winds down on Russia's time as a Global Fund recipient.