{"id":11269,"date":"2003-06-01T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:48:34","slug":"global-fund-requires-significant-new-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/11269","title":{"rendered":"Global Fund requires \u2018significant\u2019 new money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US General Accounting Office (GAO) released a long-awaited 75-page report on the Global Fund. The views of the report are captured in its title: \u201cGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Has Advanced in Key Areas, but Difficult Challenges Remain.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The GAO is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the US Congress. The report did not contain serious criticisms of the Fund as had been anticipated by some anti-Fund members of Congress. The report summarises its findings as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Fund has made noteworthy progress in establishing essential governance and other supporting structures and is responding to challenges that have impeded its ability to quickly disburse grants. A key challenge involves locally based governance structures, many of which are not currently performing in a manner envisioned by the Fund.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Fund has developed comprehensive oversight systems for monitoring and evaluating grant performance and ensuring financial accountability and has issued guidance for procurement; however, the oversight systems face challenges at the country level and some procurement issues have not been finalised.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Fund\u2019s ability to approve and finance additional grants is threatened by a lack of sufficient resources. Pledges made through the end of 2003 are insufficient to cover more than a small number of additional grants and without significant new pledges, the Fund will be unable to support all of the already approved grants beyond their initial two-year agreements.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cImprovements in the Fund\u2019s grant-making processes have enhanced its ability to achieve its key objectives, but challenges remain. These challenges include ensuring that grants add to and complement existing spending on HIV\/AIDS, TB, and malaria and that recipients have the capacity to effectively use grants.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Reproduced from the Global Fund Observer Newsletter, a service of Aidspan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidspan.org\/gfo\"> http:\/\/www.aidspan.org\/gfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full report is available to download at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d03601.pdf\"> http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d03601.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US General Accounting Office (GAO) released a long-awaited 75-page report on the Global Fund. The views of the report are captured in its title: \u201cGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Has Advanced in Key Areas, but Difficult &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}