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ABSTRACT The Global Fund has delivered on its undertaking to make attachments to the concept notes public. However, as with the notes, the attachments are released only after the grants related to the notes are approved, a process that usually takes several months. Aidspan called it a step in the right direction, but said that further steps are required.
ABSTRACT Three years after terminating its grant agreements with the Tropical Disease Foundation, principal recipient for five grants in the Philippines, following a finding by the Office of the Inspector General of $1.77 million in “unauthorised expenditures,” the Global Fund has reversed its demand that the funds need to be repaid.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund is making a special effort to fix 51 grants that it calls “stuck.” These are grants to which no money has flowed within the first three months after signature of the grant agreement or, for more mature grants, to which no money has flowed within the last six months. This information is contained in the Report of the General Manager, prepared for the Board meeting in Geneva.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund has extended the deadline for submission of Round 11 applications from 15 December 2011 to at least 1 March 2012. Most or all Round 11 grant agreements will probably not be signed before the last quarter of 2013. Also, the Fund has reduced its estimate of the available funding for Round 11 from $1.5 billion to $0.8 billion.
ABSTRACT In every country audited by the Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General since 2006, there were numerous instances of PRs not complying with clauses in their grant agreements. A recent report by the OIG points out that the Fund does not have mechanisms in place to monitor and enforce compliance with these clauses.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund has resumed funding for four of the five suspended grants to the Philippines, with different PRs at the helm, and is expected to sign an agreement shortly with a new PR for the fifth grant.
ABSTRACT The insistence by the Board that it retain the right to over-rule the Secretarit's decisions about which grants to approve for Phase 2 renewal has completely backfired.
ABSTRACT In an analysis by GFO of all 212 Global Fund grants for which a grant agreement has been signed, every one of the 25 "slow-moving" grants identified by GFO has a governmental Principal Recipient (PR), as against a civil society or multilateral PR.
ABSTRACT Comprehensive data and source material regarding all Round 1, 2, 3 and 4 grants is about to be posted at the Aidspan web site.
ABSTRACT The Fund should set a deadline: if a Round 1 grant agreement is not signed by some specified date in the not-too-distant future, the grant approval should be revoked. And new procedures must be developed arising from the likely funding shortfall for Round 3.
