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ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board is currently seeking health care, public health and development professionals to serve on its independent review body, the Technical Review Panel. It launched its 2022 recruitment for Technical Review Panel members on 1 June. The closing date for applications is 24 July 2022.
ABSTRACT Our editorial team’s summary of what you can expect from this issue of the Global Fund Observer. Our focus this week is on the health targets used to determine national health budgets and contributions to the Seventh Replenishment, as well as two Office of the Inspector General reports.
ABSTRACT An innovative one-off approach for Angola’s very specific situation is the first of its kind for the Global Fund. The Global Fund obtained guidance from the Technical Review Panel before the development of the funding request, based on an allocation for activities for four pre-selected provinces, chosen according to the burden of disease, partner funding landscape and implementation feasibility. This highly customized approach has enabled more targeted dialogue and prioritization at the provincial level and resulted in a funding request for the three diseases and health systems strengthening that responds to the real situation and needs of the priority provinces.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel has presented a summary of lessons learned to the Board. This is based on a review of 120 funding requests submitted for Windows 1 and 2 of the 2020–2020 allocation cycle. The funding requests represent nearly 80% of the allocated amount for the funding cycle.
ABSTRACT Countries whose applications for funding have been rejected by the Technical Review Panel are subjected to a number of significant and additional requirements. They are required to respond to questions that could be quite complex regarding their initial application, rewrite and resubmit the application, and produce additional documents to support the new submission in a short time. This short timeframe is due to the requirement that grants are to be signed before 31 December 2020.
ABSTRACT The Technical Review Panel’s Chair, Dr Patricia Moser, gave a short presentation on the panel’s activities to the Global Fund 43rd Board meeting held virtually in May 2020. She commended the responsiveness and the flexibility of both the Secretariat and the panel members for conducting the reviews remotely. She provided feedback on the quality and content of the funding requests. As the countries that submitted in March were not affected by COVID-19 at that time, it is expected that Windows 2 and 3 will reflect the time pressures and resourcing challenges countries experienced during the COVID-19 health emergency.
ABSTRACT In advance of the next Global Fund Board meeting, where allocations for the 2020-2022 funding cycle will be confirmed following the Sixth Replenishment’s confirmation of a $14.02 billion budget, the Technical Review Panel has published a detailed report about the 2017-2019 funding cycle on the Global Fund website, including observations, trends, and recommendations for countries as they develop their new funding requests.
ABSTRACT “Many funding requests do not acknowledge or address the common problem of shortage or maldistribution of human resources for health,” the Technical Review Panel said in a recent report on RSSH investments in the 2017–2019 allocation period. The TRP analyzed 50 funding requests from Windows 1–5. This is one of three GFO articles on the report.
ABSTRACT Integration, both across the three diseases as well as more broadly to other health services –– such as reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health –– is lacking in funding requests, the Technical Review Panel says in a recent report on RSSH investments in the 2017–2019 allocation period. The TRP analyzed 50 funding requests from Windows 1–5. This is one of three GFO articles on the report.
ABSTRACT The Technical Review Panel recently released a report on RSSH investments in the 2017–2019 allocation period. Although there has been progress, the TRP found, a greater focus on resilient and sustainable systems for health will be required in the 2020–2022 allocation period if the Global Fund is to achieve its RSSH-related strategic objectives. The TRP analyzed 50 funding requests from Windows 1–5. This overview is one of three GFO articles on the report; the other two, on integrated health systems and human resources for health, will be published in a future edition of the GFO.
