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ABSTRACT This GFO brings you the latest on the allocation letters, which at the time of writing are due to be dispatched within the next week. We also discuss the presentation made to the Board on the Thematic Report on Gender, why we still have no idea what we’re doing when it comes to pandemics, and what major health issues remain unresolved at the end of 2022.
ABSTRACT The DRC has experienced a virulent third wave of COVID-19 and is organizing its response through its Technical Secretariat which coordinates the operations carried out by the different bodies of the Ministry of Health. Dr Stéphane Mukendi Kalambaie is working with Professor Muyembe, the head of the response, and Professor Kayembe, Chair of the National Care Commission. He answers our questions on how the response is organized and gives us his vision on how the fight against epidemics can and should strengthen the health system.
ABSTRACT The Democratic Republic of Congo has to prove that the country has fulfilled its co-financing commitment, the Global Fund says. Otherwise, the country risks losing up to $80 million in grant funding, representing 15% of the value of its grants. DRC is currently facing an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 2000 people in the last 12 months.
ABSTRACT In the latest batch of funding approvals from the Global Fund Board, three country grants and two multicountry grants were awarded $36 million. The Board also approved funding in the amount of $66 million for interventions on the Unfunded Quality Demand Register. Some of the funding for the UQD interventions came from private sector contributions.
ABSTRACT We describe, In brief, a new debt swap donation from Spain; the latest PEPFAR results; sales in 2017 by Apple’s (RED) products; the World Malaria Report 2017; delays in the $9.5 billion USAID global health supply chain project; and an expansion of the Global Gag Rule.
ABSTRACT The Grant Approvals Committee says there is a risk that the Democratic Republic of Congo will not be able to meet its 2017-2019 co-financing requirements. Nevertheless, the GAC recommended approval of three HIV and three malaria grants to the DRC. To mitigate the risk, the Secretariat will step up its monitoring of the DRC’s progress towards meeting its co-financing commitment. The GAC also expressed concern about a gap in the DRC’s funding for mass distribution of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets.
ABSTRACT With some discomfort, the Board has authorized the Secretariat to enter into an “Administration Agreement” with the World Bank for the performance-based funding project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because the agreement is based on the World Bank’s Single Donor Trust Fund template, the Fund’s Office of the Inspector General will not be able to provide assurance regarding the funds disbursed under the project.
ABSTRACT A thirty-page report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released by the Global Fund points to serious deficiencies in the programmatic and financial management of grants to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ABSTRACT The Global Fund is working towards removing salary top-ups paid as incentives to workers who help implement its programs, but in some countries this has been more challenging than expected. The organisation wants the payments stopped as one way of getting national governments to take full ownership of their health systems. Finding a way of removing these payments without affecting programs implementation has not been easy.
RÉSUMÉ En mars, le Conseil a approuvé un financement supplémentaire pour deux subventions raccourcies. Le Conseil a également approuvé un financement supplémentaire pour deux subventions TB/VIH pour le Libéria à partir des allocations pour 2014-2016.
