Other country-specific details Annex A of the allocation letter explicitly indicates the focus of application requirements for each country. Upper-middle-income countries, such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Romania, are required to commit 100% of the funding for maintaining or scaling up evidence-based interventions for key and vulnerable populations or new – technologies and innovations that represent global best practice. The letters to these countries said, requests can include interventions for ensuring transition readiness, which “Funding should include critical RSSH needs for sustainability as well as improve equitable coverage and uptake of services.” For the other countries all upper and lower lower-middle-income the letters define – – program design priorities for only 50% of the funding. This is consistent with Global Fund policy. Only two countries out of the 12 in our sample are eligible for catalytic funding. Kyrgyzstan may receive up to $1 million for an HIV component on to remove human “Programs barriers to health Ukraine is eligible for up to $15.2 million for four services.” different populations components, specifically “HIV: Key impact” ($3.9 million); “HIV: Programs to remove human rights-related barriers to health million); services” ($2.3 “TB: Finding missing TB million); and data cases” ($7.0 “RSSH: Data systems, data generation, million). use” ($2.0 Finally, Uzbekistan may receive an incentive award of $400,000 (drawn from its malaria 2014-2016 allocation) if it is able to present a malaria elimination certificate prior to 31 December 2018. _________________________________ 6. NEWS: Significant improvement required in grant management in high-risk countries: OIG Both the design and implementation of additional measures to manage these grants are imperfect, the OIG says David Garmaise 31 January 2017 Measures taken by the Global Fund to manage grants in high-risk environments are inadequate. This is the central conclusion of an audit performed by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in 2016. A on the audit was released on 23 January 2017. In this article, we provide a summary of the audit findings. We plan to do a separate article on the actions the Secretariat has agreed to take in response to the findings.
Other country-specific details Annex A of the allocation letter explicitly indicates the focus of application requirements for each country. Upper-middle-income countries, such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Romania, are required to commit 100% of the funding for maintaining or scaling up evidence-based interventions for key and vulnerable populations – or new technologies and innovations that represent global best practice. The letters to these countries said, “Funding requests can include interventions for ensuring transition readiness, which should include critical RSSH needs for sustainability as well as improve equitable coverage and uptake of services.” For the other countries – all upper and lower lower-middle-income – the letters define program design priorities for only 50% of the funding. This is consistent with Global Fund policy. Only two countries out of the 12 in our sample are eligible for catalytic funding. Kyrgyzstan may receive up to $1 million for an HIV component on “Programs to remove human barriers to health services.” Ukraine is eligible for up to $15.2 million for four different components, specifically “HIV: Key populations impact” ($3.9 million); “HIV: Programs to remove human rights-related barriers to health services” ($2.3 million); “TB: Finding missing TB cases” ($7.0 million); and “RSSH: Data systems, data generation, data use” ($2.0 million). Finally, Uzbekistan may receive an incentive award of $400,000 (drawn from its malaria 2014-2016 allocation) if it is able to present a malaria elimination certificate prior to 31 December 2018. _________________________________ 6. NEWS: Significant improvement required in grant management in high-risk countries: OIG Both the design and implementation of additional measures to manage these grants are imperfect, the OIG says David Garmaise 31 January 2017 Measures taken by the Global Fund to manage grants in high-risk environments are inadequate. This is the central conclusion of an audit performed by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in 2016. A on the audit was released on 23 January 2017. In this article, we provide a summary of the audit findings. We plan to do a separate article on the actions the Secretariat has agreed to take in response to the findings.
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