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Donors to the Global Fund: Who Gives How Much?

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From: Peter Burgess
12:42 PM

This message reminds me of efforts I have made in the past to try to understand, not so much where the money came from, but where the GFATM money went to.

I tried to get the original GFATM operational design to be based more on corporate practice than the practices of the UN, World Bank and others. I wanted to see the money used in the most effective way, with very rigorous control over the money and the inventories. As it turned out the GFATM adopted practices that were heavy on the analysis of project proposals and weak in terms of the post approval use of funds and results being achieved.

I have tried to 'follow the money' in several of the GFATM funded projects over the past few years, and it was pretty clear that what was actually done on the ground was very different from what had been described in the project proposal. It was also pretty clear that the system of oversight put in place by the GFATM was incredible weak and ineffective.

I sense that in the recent past there has been some move to more operational accountability, but in my view there is still way too much fuzziness in the performance and oversight of the funds. Putting this in rather crude terms, the accomplishments resulting from the use of the GFATM funds could have done much more good than has actually been achieved ... maybe twice as much!

My hope is that GFATM replenishment will go well, because GFATM resources are doing good. That does not mean, however, that efforts to improve performance should not have a high priority as well.

Peter Burgess - TrueValueMetrics
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[afro-nets] Donors to the Global Fund: Who Gives How Much?
P Wamukulu
Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Reply-To: 'African Networks for Health Research and Development (AFRO-NETS)'
To: afro-nets

Aidspan has officially launched a new data analysis tool designed to provide comprehensive information about historical and current pledges and contributions to the Global Fund.

As the Global Fund’s Fourth Replenishment Conference nears, the data represent a critical tool for activists and governments alike to ensure accountability from and for the Fund to track its progress towards its goals of having every penny at its disposal for the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria.

The impetus for the tool came from Bernard Rivers, Aidspan’s founding director and author of the 2012 publication: Donors to the Global Fund: who gives how much
http://www.aidspan.org/sites/default/files/publications/Aidspan%20report%20on%20donors_0.pdf

The tool’s development was led by Senior Systems Officer Kelvin Kinyua.

Data driving the tool were obtained from the publicly available information on the Fund's own website.

The data rank and then rate all High Income and Upper Middle Income country-donors to the Global Fund by year from 2003. This arrangement demonstrates the changes in donor relationships with the Fund over time, and the evolution of those relationships.

Aidspan also applied a ‘donor score’ to each country for each year of its contribution. The score assesses a country’s contribution to the Global Fund against its Gross National Income. It does not, however, reflect a donor’s bilateral commitments to any particular country or a donor commitment through other multilateral mechanisms – only its commitment to the fight against the three diseases through the Global Fund’s granting process.

The Pledges and Contributions pages can be found on the Aidspan website http://aidspan.org/page/global-fund-pledges-and-contributions

The page also features a separate platform for feedback and comments.

[This article was first posted on GFO Live on 26 November 2013.]

http://www.aidspan.org/sites/default/files/publications/Aidspan%20report%20on%20donors_0.pdf

mailto:pwamukulu@gmail.com

AFRO-NETS, an e-forum on health research and development in Africa, is moderated by an expert, and hosted by the FHI360-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology (www.healthnet.org)

Open pdf ... Aidspan-report-on-donors_121212