TFM

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved up to $100 million for use on special initiatives and $200 million for regional programs during the 2014-2016 period, a sum that excludes the $116 million already committed to early applicants under the new funding model (NFM).

ABSTRACT Funding of up to $53.3 million was approved for three interim applicants under the new funding model, bringing to 40 the number of applicants awarded interim funding of 48 invited to apply when the transition phase of the new funding model was launched.

ABSTRACT The revised eligibility policy adopted by the Global Fund Board retains most of the main elements of the old policy. However, under the revised policy, countries that become newly ineligible will benefit from a new transition provision. Further work will be done on the transition modalities.

ABSTRACT Earlier this year, the Global Fund approved 10 re-submitted proposals under the Transitional Funding Mechanism. The upper two-year ceiling for the 10 proposals combined was $82.2 million.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board has approved funding for three concept notes submitted by Myanmar, one from El Salvador and one from Zimbabwe. A total of up to $449.8 million in indicative and incentive funding was awarded.

ABSTRACT This article provides a summary of the comments of the Technical Review Panel and the Grant Approvals Committee on new and renewal funding recently approved for Myanmar.

ABSTRACT As reported in the first article in this issue, the Global Fund has awarded up to $278.9 million in new funding to Zimbabwe, an early applicant. The new funding will be combined with existing funding for HIV. During grant making $31 million in unfunded quality demand was identified.

ABSTRACT With only several months left before the full rollout of the new funding model, the methodology that will be used to determine how much money is allocated to each applicant is still not very well known. In fact, some of the details have yet to be worked out. In this article, David Garmaise explains the methodology based on the information currently available, and identifies which aspects are not yet decided.

ABSTRACT The country dialogues and the process of developing concept notes have been completed in Zimbabwe, Myanmar and El Salvador. This article provides describes the process in each country.

ABSTRACT The Communities and NGO delegations on the Global Fund Board have written to Executive Director Mark Dybul seeking additional information regarding funding allocations for the transition phase for both the indicative and incentive streams.