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ABSTRACT In funding requests submitted to the Global Fund, countries provide estimates of future needs and gaps in funding, though many countries lack reliable and accurate data to project the future resources they will need. This situation begs the question of how future resource needs and gaps are calculated, and calls into question the reliability of such estimates.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund’s Fifth Replenishment is a crucial moment for the future of the three diseases. But even with a fully funded Global Fund, will we be able to “End It for Good”? David Stevenson, former Chair of the Global Fund Strategy Committee, spells out three collective priorities to get the job done.
ABSTRACT The non-profit organization, Publish What You Fund (PWYF), has ranked The Global Fund among the top five donors of global aid for its transparency and accountability. The organization released its Aid Transparency Index on 13 April.
ABSTRACT Both watchdogs and the OIG are having trouble accessing useful and complete country-level data to track and verify grant budgeting, expenditure and results data. There are also significant obstacles keeping implementers from meeting requirements for reporting to national oversight structures. These two conclusions drove two days of strategic discussions at an Aidspan roundtable in early August drawing participants from 10 countries.
ABSTRACT In an exhaustive consideration of the 91 concept notes submitted during windows 3 and 4, the Technical Review Panel flagged a number of concerns about both quality and content of the submissions from countries under the NFM. Identifying what they saw as a growing dependence on the Fund for financial resources to maintain their programs for AIDS, TB and malaria, the TRP advised countries that sometimes realistic was better than ambitious -- a decided deviation from the rhetoric from the Fund itself.
ABSTRACT Two proposals from East and Southern Africa that emphasize community system strengthening are among 16 regional applications projected to be submitted on 30 January. The approved proposals will claim a share of the $200 million set aside for regional programs by the Global Fund Board.
ABSTRACT Using money from the Global Fund, a project in Zimbabwe is enhancing the collection of health data by providing Internet connection infrastructure in 82 sites. Similar projects are underway in other countries.
ABSTRACT Using money from the Global Fund, a project in Zimbabwe is enhancing the collection of health data by providing Internet connection infrastructure in 82 sites. Similar projects are underway in other countries.
ABSTRACT Most organisations and people don’t take advantage of Global Fund transparency to trigger open and well-informed discussions on aid effectiveness, says Robert Bourgoing. The Global Fund should spearhead an effort to build local capacity to use Fund data. And it should declare war on gobbledygook.
ABSTRACT his brief issue of GFO serves to inform readers that comprehensive data and source material regarding all Round 1, 2 and 3 grants is now available at www.aidspan.org/globalfund.
