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------Original message------ From: PlusNews <[email protected]> To: "Elisabeth Janaina" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:31:30 PM GMT-0000 Subject: Global Fund announces first new grants under new model Global Fund announces first new grants under new model JOHANNESBURG, 28 February 2013 (PLUSNEWS) - After reviewing and reforming its grant process [ http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96405/HEALTH-A-timeline-of-Global-Fund-reforms ], the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is back in business, announcing the first handful of countries slated to receive up to US$1.9 billion in available funding over the next two years. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Zimbabwe are among the six countries set to receive funding under the Global Fund's new model, the Fund announced on 28 February. With up to nearly two billion dollars available between now and 2014, El Salvador, Kazakhstan and the Philippines, as well as three regional programmes, will also receive new funding, including access to an incentive funding pool aimed at fostering ambitious, high-impact and co-funded interventions. According the Fund, countries were selected for financing this year based, in part, on whether they would face an interruption of services without new funding and whether they were currently being underfunded based on levels set by the new model. The new model, part of the many reforms, has introduced a system in which countries are grouped into bands based on a calculation of financial need and disease burden. [http://www.plusnews.org/Report/96385/HEALTH-The-Global-Fund-adopts-new-funding-model] Test driving the new model In awarding the new funding, the Global Fund board also chose geographically diverse countries as well as non-traditional applicants. It is looking to use these new grants as a learning opportunity, according to the new executive director, Mark Dybul. [http://www.plusnews.org/Report/96829/HEALTH-New-Global-Fund-executive-director-on-the-Fund-s-future] "The new funding model gives us a special chance to learn and adapt," he said in a statement. "During this year, we will monitor various aspects of the new funding model process so that we can adapt in real time. We are a learning institution, and we will gain insight and knowledge as we work together." Historically, the Fund has only accepted applications from country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs), or the bodies in charge of national Global Fund processes. The Fund has now chosen to fund civil society proposals as well, including those by the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, a group that deals with the underserved needs of injecting drug users. According to Global Fund board documents, the Fund will be paying particular attention to how the new model improves services for underserved, most-at-risk populations like injecting drug users. [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/127758639/Global-Fund-Board-Document-on-first-countries-to-receive-funding-under-new-model] An additional 50 countries, including Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia, will receive money via renewals and the extension of existing grants, or grant reprogramming, to free up already committed funding. [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/127758639/Global-Fund-Board-Document-on-first-countries-to-receive-funding-under-new-model] llg/kn/rz [END] This report online: http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=97567 Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/plusnews © IRIN. All rights reserved. HIV/AIDS news and analysis: http://www.plusnews.org/ [This item comes to you from PlusNews, part of IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations or its Member States. Reposting or reproduction, with attribution, for non-commercial purposes is permitted. Terms and conditions: http://www.irinnews.org/copyright Principal IRIN/PlusNews donors: UAE, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the IHC. More information: http://www.irinnews.org/donors This mail is from an automatic address. Contact PlusNews at: [email protected]. Revise/stop your subscription: http://bit.ly/9nCoUP ] Subscribed email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
