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ABSTRACT The Global Fund Secretariat published six requests for proposals to select technical assistance providers for its Community, Rights, and Gender program for the next three years.
ABSTRACT Technical assistance providers are invisible but vital in the Global Fund's processes. This article describes their work, their perceived challenges and successes.
ABSTRACT The Country Coordinating Mechanism evolution initiative is at mid-point. Information from four African countries suggests mixed results: two countries with early signs of success and two where it is too early to measure success, country representatives say. Aidspan’s policy team highlights the challenges and keys to success discussed with representatives from each of the four countries featured in this article.
ABSTRACT The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations and the Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations have created a partnership, funded through the Global Fund’s Human Rights Strategic Initiative, to provide technical assistance to implementers of Global Fund grants in 20 countries, to reduce barriers to accessing services.
ABSTRACT “Strategic technical assistance for grant excellence (STAGE)” is the title of the new technical assistance approach recently presented by GIZ Program BACKUP Health during a workshop in Senegal. Through this new support methodology, Global Fund grant implementers will now have the opportunity to address issues faced within their grants in a sustainable way as well as structural and systemic issues.
ABSTRACT An evaluation of France’s 5% Initiative says that it “is relevant in the context of specific difficulties linked to the implementation of Global Fund grants in the French-speaking region.” The evaluation also refers to the initiative as “a creative mechanism combining a bilateral approach within a multilateral framework.” At the same time, evaluators called for some improvements in the operations and oversight of the initiative.
ABSTRACT India, the second most populated country in the world, and soon to become the largest, contributes 27% of the world’s TB burden. It plans to end TB by 2025. This article summarizes the comments from the Technical Review Panel and the Grants Approvals Committee on India’s TB funding request. In January, the Board approved four TB grants and one TB/HIV grant to India.
ABSTRACT On 12-15 September, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, representatives from 21 country coordinating mechanisms, mostly from West and Central Africa, discussed the challenges they face in ensuring that their CCMs function effectively. This was one of five regional CCM consultations held in August and September. Most of the participants said they were not comfortable with the concept of differentiated models for CCMs proposed by the Global Fund Secretariat.
ABSTRACT [By Gemma Oberth] This year, I wrote three Global Fund funding requests for African HIV and TB programs. Being that immersed in country-level processes evokes all kinds of thoughts and reflections. In this commentary, I share my views on the different proposal development processes, the value-added of technical assistance, the role of the Global Fund country teams and changes to the application materials. I also suggest that there is a dire need for user-friendly tools to assist countries with optimizing their budget allocations.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund has issued two requests for proposals related to improving the engagement of civil society and communities in Fund programs and processes.
