The Global Fund: managing great expectations.
Abstract
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created to increase funds to combat these three devastating diseases. This paper reports on interim findings, based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents that track early implementation processes in four African countries. Country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs) are country-level partnerships, which were formed quickly to develop and submit grant proposals to the Global Fund. CCM members were often ineffective at representing their constituencies and encountered obstacles in participating in CCM processes. Delay in dissemination of guidelines from the Global Fund led to uncertainty among members about the function of these new partnerships. Respondents expressed most concern about the limited capacity of fund recipients–government and non-government–to meet Global Fund conditions for performance-based disbursement.
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The Global Fund: managing great expectations
Citation
The Lancet, 364 (9428), 95-100 pp. [doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16595-1]