Country ownership

ABSTRACT In addition to publishing the principles and application of the Additional Safeguard Policy, the Global Fund needs to publish its performance indicators including the required capacity building, exit strategy, and the time period within which those goals should be achieved. The Secretariat and the country need to agree on the requirements that would make the withdrawal of the Additional Safeguard Policy possible, as well the measures that would prevent a recurrence of infringements.

ABSTRACT The Additional Safeguard Policy has been in place in Nigeria since 2016. The country has met the criteria for the ASP to be revoked. It is important that the country exits this policy.

ABSTRACT In a routine country audit of Global Fund grants in Angola, the Office of the Inspector General found that the country’s grants were performing poorly. Overall, domestic financing, community engagement, program implementation, as well as data management arrangements, are ineffective, the report said. However, the OIG assessed financial management and assurance arrangements to be partially effective.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Implementer Voting Group is holding its third retreat from 11 to 13 September, in Dakar, Senegal. The retreat aims to develop agreed actions based on work areas first prioritized in its 2016 ‘roadmap’, as well as focus on advancing country ownership and political will, in the context of co-financing and universal health coverage.

ABSTRACT In its Strategic Review 2017, the Technical Evaluation Reference Group found that all of the recommendations from a previous strategic review have been fully or at least partially implemented; and that the Global Fund is well-positioned to implement its Strategy 2017–2022. This article provides a summary of gaps that the review identified in three specific program areas: differentiated approaches, country ownership and strengthening RSSH. Although the review was essentially completed by the end of 2017, the final report was not issued until February 2019.

ABSTRACT This week’s full roll-out of the new funding model provides an opportunity to review independent assessments at the country level that recommend a significant transformation in the way the Global Fund structures its operations.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund has announced the amount each eligible country will be able to access over the 2014-2016 period to respond to the disease burdens in their countries. The integration of existing funding with ‘new’ funds raised during the Fourth Replenishment has resulted in disappointment and frustration at the country level.

ABSTRACT Country ownership is a core principle of the Global Fund model. But as is often the case, the ideal has been complicated by political realities, namely, who owns country ownership? Too often it is the loudest voice, not the best harmony of a variety of voices, which drives the process away from the ideals of the Fund into potentially uncomfortable territory.

ABSTRACT “Country ownership” is a core principle of the Global Fund, but there is some confusion about exactly what it means. In this article, David Garmaise examines how “country ownership” has evolved since the early days of the Fund.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved a new funding model which will be rolled out over the next year, and fully operational by 2014. Retaining the principle of being demand-driven, the model is designed to be more flexible and simpler than the rounds system it replaces.