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Issue 230: 29 October 2013
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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE:
1. NEWS: Gender Equality Experts Criticise Implementation of Global Fund’s GE Strategy
The Global Fund and its stakeholders have failed to address the barriers that prevent women and
girls from obtaining the comprehensive, quality services that meet their rights and needs. This is
one of the observations of a workshop on gender equality held in Geneva in July 2013.
2. COMMENTARY: It’s About Time the Global Fund Implemented Its Gender Equality Strategy
The Global Fund is in the process of developing its second Gender Equality Strategy
implementation plan. But little progress has been made. For inspiration, David Garmaise says,
the Fund need look no further than its original 2008 Strategy.
3. NEWS: Indonesian Foundation Donates $65 Million to the Global Fund
A foundation run by a wealthy Indonesian businessman is donating $65 million to the Global
Fund. The contribution, the largest ever by a private foundation in the developing world, is being
matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
4. NEWS: Global Fund Country Team Meets Cameroonian LGBTI Groups After Murder of
Prominent Gay Rights Activist
Cameroonian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex groups met in September with top
Global Fund officials to highlight their operational challenges in an increasingly tense
environment.
5. NEWS: Kate Thomson Named to Lead New Critical Enablers and Civil Society Hub at the
Secretariat
The Global Fund appoints a veteran health policy activist to lead its new Civil Society hub, to
emphasise human rights and deepen partnerships with civil society.
6. NEWS: Evaluation by France Praises the Accomplishments of the Global Fund
According to an evaluation of France’s contribution to the Global Fund, the presence of the Fund
has resulted in a significant increase in funding for the response to the three diseases in subSaharan Africa, as well as an expansion of health coverage and greater access to care and
medicines in the region.
7. NEWS: TB Activist Group Forms Steering Committee
The Global Coalition of Tuberculosis Activists has announced a steering committee for the
coalition that aims to ensure that communities affected by TB are at the centre of the global fight
to eradicate the disease.
8. NEWS: EECA CSOs Submit Joint Statement on Aspects of the NFM
Civil society organisations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have called for an extended
transition period for countries that suddenly become ineligible as a result of the introduction of
the new funding model. They also say that the current NGO rule should be retained and
expanded.
9. ERRATUM: “Constituency” Is Defined in the CCM Minimum Standards Documentation
We correct an error in a recent article on the new minimum standards for country coordinating
mechanisms.
See section near the end of this newsletter listing additional articles available on GFO Live.
ARTICLES:
1. NEWS: Gender Equality Experts Criticise Implementation
of Global Fund’s GE Strategy
Participants in a multilateral workshop on gender equality have chastised the Global Fund and its
stakeholders for their failure to prioritise and implement programmes to support women, or to go far
enough in helping to lift the barriers keeping women and girls from accessing comprehensive, quality
health services.
These failures have had particularly dire consequences in sub-Saharan Africa, where about 60% of
new HIV infections are among women and girls, participants said.
About 35 people representing 20 countries gathered in Geneva in July for the workshop hosted by
AIDS Strategy, Advocacy and Policy (ASAP) and the ATHENA network. A report on the outcomes
of the workshop was released recently and is available here.
Workshop participants said that there has been a lack of effective action despite the fact that the
Global Fund's Gender Equality Strategy (GES) has been in place since 2008. Participants said that
the strategy was “commendably progressive on paper, especially in the world of international
development,” but that the GES has not been adequately costed or budgeted, that its implementation
has been limited, and that no adequate communications strategy has been launched to explain or
promote it.
In their report, the participants said it was not surprising that “many people remain unaware of the
existence of the GES and the importance assigned to addressing gender equality through the Global
Fund.”
At least three evaluations of the implementation of the GES to date have shown that it has
significantly failed to meet its goals, the workshop report found.
One of the purposes of the meeting was to inform discussions by the Fund’s Strategy, Investment and
Impact Committee (SIIC) which has been reviewing the GES. Workshop participants urged the SIIC
to require Global Fund reporting to include sex- and age-disaggregated data; to ensure that the
Global Fund Secretariat has sufficient resources to implement and monitor the GES; to require all
country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs) to have gender focal points; and to require that all concept
notes contain a gender analysis.
In addition, participants recommended that key performance indicators be developed for
implementation of the GES; that an ongoing independent evaluation of GES implementation be
conducted; and that the Secretariat implement a global and national communications strategy
regarding the GES specifically, and gender issues more generally.
As well, participants said that gender training for members of country coordinating mechanisms
should be required, not simply recommended (as at present).
Finally, workshop participants said that the Global Fund should review the inclusion of “women and
girls” in the definition of key populations. Participants were concerned that the inclusion diluted and
limited efforts to respond to key gender-related issues.
See the commentary on this topic (next article in this issue).
See also “Global Fund Programmes Are Far from Being Gender Transformative” a GFO
commentary written by Robin Gorna, director of ASAP, in December 2012.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 23 October 2013.]
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2. COMMENTARY: It’s About Time the Global Fund
Implemented Its Gender Equality Strategy
By David Garmaise
The Global Fund adopted a Gender Equality Strategy (GES) in 2008. At the time, the mere existence
of the strategy was seen as symbolically important. However, since then, evaluation after evaluation
has shown that little progress has been made on implementing the strategy.
Participants at a workshop in Geneva in July 2013 said that the strategy was “commendably
progressive on paper, especially in the world of international development,” but that the GES has not
been adequately costed or budgeted, that its implementation has been limited, and that no adequate
communications strategy has been rolled out to explain or promote it.
As we reported in the previous article in this issue, workshop participants said that “far too few grant
agreements specify or fund gender-sensitive or gender-transformative activities, and where they do,
progress is not tracked.”
According to a report on the workshop, the Global Fund is preparing a GES implementation plan.
This would be the second such plan. A four-year GES Plan of Action was developed in 2009, but few
people knew much about its contents. The entire plan was never released publicly; a summary of the
plan was included in a report prepared for the Third Replenishment.
For inspiration, the drafters of the new implementation plan need look no further than the 2008 GES
Strategy which said that “the Global Fund will champion and fund proposals that scale up services
and interventions that reduce gender-related risks and vulnerabilities to infection … and address
structural inequalities and discrimination.” The GES Strategy listed nine examples of interventions it
said it would champion:
1. Take into account the different needs and vulnerabilities of women and men, girls and boys,
and of men who have sex with men, transgender, bisexual and lesbian populations.
2. Provide for the specific health needs of women and girls, men and boys, and reduce barriers
that inhibit equitable access to prevention, treatment and care (including lack of specialised,
targeted and integrated health services, user fees, discriminatory practices and attitudes by
healthcare workers, etc.).
3. Address factors that impose disproportionate burdens of care and support on women and the
elderly and put in place programs to mitigate these burdens.
4. Reduce the risks and vulnerabilities that increase women’s and girls’ susceptibility to
infection by the three diseases, and mitigate the impact for those already infected (Including,
gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, early or forced marriage, lack of access to
education, wife inheritance, increased risk due to pregnancy, discrimination in employment,
etc.).
5. Focus on women who face challenges in being able to access health services, many of whom
are at-risk of HIV infection or are particularly marginalised such as sex workers, people who
inject drugs, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered women, partners of bi-sexual men.
6. Include programs that empower women and girls so they can protect themselves, by having
access to sexual and reproductive health care (SRH), access to female-controlled prevention
measures (female condom, negotiating condom-use, etc.), and access to education. In this
context the Global Fund will champion activities that strengthen SRH-HIV/AIDS service
integration.
7. Target the structural issues that increase the vulnerability of women, girls, men who have sex
with men, transgender, bisexual and lesbian populations, including sociocultural, legal,
political and economic inequalities and discrimination.
8. Ensure that men and boys are targeted with appropriate interventions in prevention, treatment
and care activities.
9. Use transformative approaches than involve and or engage men and young boys in the gender
inequalities fight.
It seems to me that we already have the recipe. If we could implement these kinds of interventions
through Global Fund grants, we’d be well on our way to making a difference.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 23 October 2013.]
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3. NEWS: Indonesian Foundation Donates $65 Million to the Global Fund
Contribution is matched by the Gates Foundation
Funds are to be spent in Indonesia
The Tahir Foundation in Indonesia will contribute $65 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Fund announced in a news release on 21 October. The contribution is
the largest ever made to the Global Fund from a private foundation in an emerging economy. The
contribution by Tahir is being matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Both contributions
will support programmes in Indonesia across the three diseases.
Dato Sri Dr Tahir, the chairman of the Tahir Foundation and chief executive officer of Mayapada
Group, said the Global Fund’s work aligned with the goals of his foundation.
“The Tahir Foundation is dedicated to serving the less privileged in Indonesia and Southeast Asia,”
Dr Tahir said in the news release. “We believe that corporations have a responsibility to support
health and well-being in the communities where they work, and our commitment to the Global Fund
is a smart investment in Indonesia’s future.”
Dr Nafsiah Mboi, speaking in her double capacity as Minister of Health of Indonesia and Chair of the
Board of the Global Fund, called the contribution “tremendous” and expressed “gratitude and
admiration… for the initiative of the Tahir Foundation and the partnership of the Gates Foundation to
help improve the health of Indonesia’s poorest citizens.”
The Tahir Foundation and the Gates Foundation began a partnership in early 2013 to improve the
lives of the world’s poorest. The partnership committed a total of $200 million over five years –
US$100 million from each partner – toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
according to a statement from the Gates Foundation.
The first beneficiary of the partnership was Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which received $25
million from each foundation. Now, the remaining $75 million from each partner has been
committed – $65 million for the Global Fund and, according to Radio Australia, another $10 million
for family planning.
It was not immediately clear whether the $130 million commitment will be considered part of the
Fund’s Fourth Replenishment drive for 2014–2016.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 23 October 2013.]
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4. NEWS: Global Fund Country Team Meets Cameroonian LGBTI Groups
After Murder of Prominent Gay Rights Activist
Senior members of the Global Fund’s Africa and Middle East team met on 18 September with a
delegation from Cameroon’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to
discuss the straitened environment in which they are operating following the death of a prominent
gay rights activist.
The meeting with Lelio Marmora, the Global Fund’s head for Africa and the Middle East, followed
the announcement of a new grant agreement from the Fund for $20 million for HIV treatment as well
as a new commitment from the Government of Cameroon to nearly double the amount of money
available for the purchase of antiretroviral drugs.
Cameroon has an HIV prevalence rate of 5.1%, according to Global Fund data, and is engaged in a
series of prevention, treatment and comprehensive care activities coordinated by the Cameroon
National Association for Family Welfare (CAMNAFAW), civil society PR for a Round 10 HIV
grant (CMR-011-G10-H).
Just over $1.8 million of the $3.25 million grant has been disbursed to sub-recipients (SRs),
including many community-based LGBTI groups, to respond to the needs of key populations.
Outreach campaigns specifically targeting men who have sex with men are foremost among these
activities, and are considered vital to the country’s fight against the disease. In the aftermath of the
July torture and murder of Eric Ohena Lembembe, however, the groups suspended their activities
because of concerns for their personal safety.
The groups announced (see GFO article) that they had decided to halt AIDS education and HIV
prevention programmes among men who have sex with men “until their international partners help
them to improve security so activists won’t be killed while trying to curb the spread of HIV among
LGBT people there.”
A provisional agreement to resume activities was made in early August after two meetings with
CAMNAFAW, Aidspan was told by Rostand Vondab, president of the SR organisation Affirmative
Action. Stakeholders, including members of the country’s country coordinating mechanism (CCM),
used the meetings with CAMNAFAW to develop a series of security assurances to the groups,
including new steps to secure outreach workers and the establishment of a regional risk management
committee.
Mr Lembembe’s group, the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (CAMFAIDS), has not been among
the SRs involved in the decision, but remains a participant in additional outreach activities
coordinated by the GIZ Backup Initiative as part of a project called “Shadows and Light.”
Mr Lembembe was Cameroon’s most prominent gay rights activist who, just weeks before his death,
made a public statement condemning inaction by the government following a series of attacks on
human rights defenders, including those protecting the rights of LGBTI people. Cameroon is one of a
handful of countries worldwide that vigorously apply their anti-homosexuality laws.
But for representatives of the groups, the security measures already announced do not go far enough
to inoculate them against the risk of persecution by an increasingly institutionalised homophobia in
Cameroon.
Additionally, the groups claimed in their meeting with Mr Marmora that they were not receiving
adequate compensation for their work and the risks they were taking in trying to implement care and
support programmes for key populations in Cameroon.
The Global Fund has modified its grant to allocate a stipend of about $8,000 to engage lawyers to
defend anyone accused under Cameroonian laws prohibiting same-sex relations. During its mission
to Cameroon, the Fund’s team also suggested that civil society organisations work with the CCM to
study whether it would be possible to allocate funds during Phase 2 of the grant to reinforce the
outreach work done by the LGBTI community, including the possible provision of administrative
stipends to the team members.
The author of this article, Bertrand Kampoer, is GFO’s regional correspondent for West and Central
Africa.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 23 October 2013.]
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5. NEWS: Kate Thomson Named to Lead New Critical Enablers
and Civil Society Hub at the Secretariat
The Global Fund announced on 11 October that it had appointed Kate Thomson as the head of its
new Critical Enablers and Civil Society hub.
In a statement emailed on 17 October in response to Aidspan questions, the Global Fund said that Ms
Thomson’s team will sit within the Strategy, Investment and Impact Division in the Secretariat, and
will include specialists on human rights, gender, community system strengthening and key
populations who are already on staff, working with colleagues in the Grant Management Division
(GMD).
Strategic priorities for the team will include “transformative actions that place communities affected
by the three diseases at the core of the response,” the statement said.
Ms Thomson’s team will “ensure Global Fund grants support and expand gender equality, human
rights, and scaling up of community-led services and policy dialogue, thus contributing to supportive
environments for populations that are often marginalized, criminalized and vulnerable,” it added.
Under Ms Thomson, the specialists will take more of a coordinated approach to ensuring human
rights, gender and community strengthening issues are integral parts of grant discussions from the
earliest stages.
Ms Thomson is being seconded from UNAIDS, where she has had more than 30 years of experience
working with civil society and multilateral institutions, with a focus on people living with HIV and
communities at higher risk.
This is Ms Thomson’s second stint with the Global Fund, following a two-year posting as manager
of Civil Society Relations in the early days of the Fund.
The establishment of the hub would appear to fill a gap created by the decision of the Secretariat in
2012 to disband its civil society team (see GFO article). The dismantlement of the nine-member team
was criticised by civil society, though many of their responsibilities were absorbed by the GMD.
However, Aidspan understands that the Secretariat views the establishment of the new civil society
hub not as a replacement of the old team, but rather as a new and separate development. The new
team is billed as being much more engaged in promoting the integration of human rights, gender and
community-building at the principal recipient and implementing-country level than the previous
team, whose job was primarily responding to questions and issues raised by civil society
organisations.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 23 October 2013.]
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6. NEWS: Evaluation by France Praises the Accomplishments of the Global Fund
Says the Fund may have over-reacted in attempting to implement a zero-risk policy
“CCMs need to function more like boards of directors”
Thanks to the work of the Global Fund and its partners, remarkable progress has been made in the
fight against HIV, TB and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, including in France’s priority countries for
development assistance. The presence of the Global Fund has resulted in a significant increase in
funding for the response to the three diseases, as well as an expansion of health coverage and greater
access to care and medicines in the region.
These are some of the findings of an evaluation of France’s contribution to the Global Fund, carried
out by a team of consultants with expertise in evaluation and public health. The evaluation, which
was commissioned by the French Foreign Ministry (see GFO article), was carried out in France, in
Geneva and in four African countries: Burkina Faso, Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo and
Uganda. The findings were summarised in a synopsis report.
Despite the undeniable progress, the report said, the Millennium Development Goals calling for a
50% reduction in AIDS-related deaths and in the incidence of disease, a 75% reduction in the
incidence of malaria and tuberculosis, and zero malaria-related deaths by 2015, will not be achieved.
However, the report said, all stakeholders agree that the withdrawal of Global Fund support for the
countries of sub-Saharan Africa would constitute a public health disaster.
The report concludes that that the Global Fund remains relevant in the fight against the three diseases
and is an effective conduit for financing that fight. The report adds that multilateral aid is the most
appropriate way to achieve France’s priorities for development assistance in health.
Language and other issues
The report noted that most of the Global Fund’s contractual documents, and even some information
notes and reports, are drafted in English, and that this is problematic for francophone countries. The
authors of the report stated that the size of France’s contribution to the Global Fund – as well as the
significant presence of francophone sub-Saharan African countries in the Fund’s grant portfolio –
argue for greater use of French in communications between the Fund and these countries.
The report said that the Global Fund may have over-reacted to the findings of fraud and
misappropriation by the Office of the Inspector General in 2010–2011 – i.e. that the Fund may have
gone too far in attempting to implement a policy of zero tolerance for risk. Fully 88% of the
francophone countries of sub-Saharan African countries are currently classified as being at extreme
or high risk, the report said. In these countries, in the last two or three years, the report said, changes
to the procedures have been very frequent, making life difficult for implementers.
According to the authors, the problem is that preventing the risk of financial mismanagement in
countries with elevated risk takes priority, while risks related to the capacity of implementers to
manage grants and absorb new funding are given insufficient attention.
The report made several observations regarding country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs).
According to the authors, CCMs need to function less like general assemblies and more like boards
of directors. Too much attention is paid to the composition of CCMs and not enough to the exercise
of the CCM’s responsibilities in terms of proposal development and grant oversight, the report stated.
But having said that, the report went on to say that the absence on CCMs of representation from
doctors and other caregivers deprives the CCMs of valuable input on the best approaches to adopt.
The authors said that capacity building of CCMs, especially their secretariats, must become more
of a priority if the CCMs are to play an expanded role under the new funding model (NFM). The
report points out that in 2012, only 1.5% of the money invested by the Global Fund went to support
the operations of the CCMs.
Concerning the NFM, the report stated that countries in sub-Saharan Africa have a good sense of the
general parameters of the NFM. However, it said, apart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, one
of the early applicants, the countries have little information on the expected content of the concept
notes and the steps involved in the applications process, including the country dialogue.
The report made the following additional observations:
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Procedures for grant management are generally perceived as complicated, time-consuming
and, in some cases, not adapted to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Although there is a good balance of governmental and non-governmental implementers, local
NGOs do not play a major role. In three of the four countries visited, most of the nongovernmental implementers were international NGOs, often American.
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Although remarkable progress has been made in the prevention of transmission of HIV from
mother to child, particularly since 2009, progress in addressing the epidemics among
marginalised populations has been much slower.
The report called for the French Foreign Ministry to become more active in the work of the Global
Fund in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. The report recommended the establishment
of three new positions in the ministry dedicated to the Fund. It also recommended that the ministry
promote the participation of other ministries, such as Health, Research and Industry, on France’s
delegation to the Global Fund Board; and strengthen the involvement of the embassies of France in
implementing countries.
Finally, the report recommended that France strengthen its participation on the committees of the
Global Fund Board. (Currently, France has a seat on only one of the three standing committees.)
A copy of the report is on file with the author.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 9 October 2013.]
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7. NEWS: TB Activist Group Forms Steering Committee
In an effort to improve coordination and collaboration among activists globally to marshal resources
in the fight against TB, the Global Coalition of Tuberculosis Activists (GCTA) announced on 30
September the installation of a new global steering committee.
The chair, vice-chair and six regional representatives are joined on the steering committee by
community representatives from the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board.
The main responsibility of the steering committee is to lead the GCTA, which was formed in March
2013 to ensure that communities affected by TB are at the centre of the global fight to eradicate the
disease.
Blessina Kumar of India was nominated to serve as steering committee chair due to her “experience
and knowledge of the Stop TB Partnership,” according to a release from Stop TB received on 30
September by Aidspan.
Regional networking and a vast working knowledge of development and public health programming
drove the decision to name Mayowa Joel of Nigeria as the vice-chair.
Regional representatives on the committee include Albert Makone of Zimbabwe for Africa; USbased Alberto Colorado for the Americas; Pervaiz Tufail of Pakistan for the Eastern Mediterranean
region; Marija Subataite of Lithuania for the European region; Louie Zepeda of the Philippines for
the Western Pacific; and India’s Majoj Pardeshi for the Southeast Asia region.
The steering committee will host its first meeting on 26 October in Paris, aiming to set the
organisation’s course and priorities for the next year.
More information about the GCTA and the new steering committee is available on the Stop TB
website.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 9 October 2013.]
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8. NEWS: EECA CSOs Submit Joint Statement on Aspects of the NFM
A group of 22 civil society organisations (CSOs) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) have
issued a joint statement concerning aspects of the new funding model (NFM). The statement was
timed to coincide with the 9th meeting of the Strategy, Investment and Impact Committee (SIIC) on
8–10 October. That meeting is focussed primarily on issues related to the design of the NFM.
In the statement, the CSOs called for an extended transition period for countries that suddenly
become ineligible to receive funding as a result of the introduction of the NFM. They also said that
the current NGO rule should be maintained and expanded. Under the NGO rule, upper-middle-
income countries (UMICs) not listed on the OECD’s DAC list of ODA recipients are not eligible to
apply for funding for HIV unless the application is submitted by an NGO.
(OECD = Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; DAC = Development
Assistance Committee; ODA = official development assistance.)
The Global Fund’s 2013 eligibility list includes five UMICs that are eligible to apply for funding
under the NGO rule: Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Russian Federation. However, in July
2013, the World Bank reclassified Latvia, Lithuania and Russia as high income countries, which
means that under the Fund’s current eligibility policy, these countries would become ineligible to
apply for funding as of 2014.
The CSOs said that the NGO rule is critical for Russia because of the political barriers to harm
reduction initiatives that exist there. Russia is one of a very small number of countries in the EECA
that oppose needle and syringes programmes and legally prohibit opioid substitution treatment. The
environment for NGOs in Russia is difficult, the CSOs said, because of legislation adopted in 2012
requiring international NGOs operating in Russia to register as foreign agents; and because of the
departure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which was a major donor for
human rights and accountability work. The harm reduction projects funded by the Global Fund are
the only investments saving lives, the CSOs said, thanks to the NGO rule.
Lithuania has never received money from the Global Fund, though it did prepare a proposal for
Round 11. (Round 11 was eventually cancelled.) The CSOs said that in Lithuania the prevalence rate
of HIV among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) has been growing in recent years and is now about
8%. In Vilnius, where more than half of the PWIDs live, there have been no sterile syringes available
since June 2013, the CSOs said. Funding for the main harm reduction services has been interrupted
since the beginning of 2013, they said, and programme staff have not been paid since April.
The CSOs told the Global Fund that high income countries should be able to apply under the NGO
rule if they have a sufficiently high disease burden.
The CSOs also said that existing eligibility rules concerning regional and multi-country proposals
should be retained.
For further information, contact Ivan Varentsov, CSAT Regional Coordinator, Eurasian Harm
Reduction Network.
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 9 October 2013.]
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9. ERRATUM: “Constituency” Is Defined
in the CCM Minimum Standards Documentation
A GFO article on new minimum standards for country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs), published
on 5 October, incorrectly stated that the term “constituency” was not defined in the standards. The
term is, in fact, explained in two footnotes to the standards document. One footnote said that civil
society constituencies of the CCM include “national NGOs, CBOs, people living with the diseases,
key affected populations, FBOs, private sector, and academic non-governmental institutions, but not
multi-lateral and bilateral organizations.”
The second footnote stated that “the Global Fund recognizes three sectors: (1) Government, (2)
Multilateral, Bilateral partners and (3) Civil Society. Constituencies of those three sectors are
recognized as per CCM By Laws. In the cases where the Government sector is not broken down by
constituencies, the Global Fund will consider each Ministry as a different constituency (i.e. MoH,
MoF, ….).”
[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 13 September 2013.]
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NEWS: Mass LLIN Campaign Planned for 2014 in Liberia
The $31 million in incremental renewal funding for two malaria grants to Liberia will be used
for a mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets in 2014, and to improve
malaria diagnosis and treatment.
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