document types: Guidelines

Country Dialogue Training

Country Dialogue Training
This 2014 training from the Global Fund offers a recap of the core principles of the new funding model (NFM) and emphasizes an inclusive country dialogue process to achieve its goals. The NFM guidance focuses on:

Bigger impact: focus on countries with the highest disease burden and lowest ability to pay, while keeping the portfolio global
Predictable funding: process and financing levels become more predictable, with higher success rate of applications
Ambitious vision: ability to elicit full expressions of demand and reward ambition
Flexible timing: in line with country schedules, context, and priorities
More streamlined: for both implementers and the Global Fund 

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Download country-dialogue-training-external-en.pdf (1.7 MB)

Key Changes under the New Funding Model

Key Changes under the New Funding Model
This 2014 powerpoint presentation published by the Global Fund focuses on inclusiveness of country dialogue as it relates to the timing of concept note submission and access to funding. Country dialogue is essential to deal with strongholds of infection among young women and girls; men who have sex with men; sex workers; people who inject drugs and prisoners. If stakeholders hope to address this epidemic, it is necessary to deal with the strongholds and to have tools available for the most vulnerable. These goals require an inclusive human family.
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Community, Rights, Gender and the New Funding Model: Global Fund Briefing for Technical Assistance Providers

Community, Rights, Gender and the New Funding Model Global Fund Briefing For Technical Assistance Providers
This March 2014 briefing from the Global Fund inludes 60-plus slides that are intended to aid technical assistance providers. The Global Fund recognizes that communities often lack access to the knowledge and information necessary to play an active role in Global Fund processes. Moreover, the impact of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs is often limited because they pay insufficient attention to barriers related to human rights, gender, and other inequalities and exclusions. In order to ensure that all those who are affected by the three diseases play a meaningful role in Global Fund processes, and that these barriers are effectively addressed in grants, the Global Fund Board has approved a special initiative to provide technical assistance to communities and civil society. For more information on the Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Technical Assistance program, click here. 
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Download CRG-and-the-NFM-technical-assitance.pdf (3.73 MB)

Communities, Civil Society and Health; CSS in the New Funding Model

Communities, Civil Society and Health; CSS in the New Funding Model
Support for community systems strengthening (CSS) in the Global Fund Strategy includes the following: 

Emphasizes the need to support national systems, defined as “all country systems, including both government and non- government systems”
Strategic Action 1.1 (Ensure appropriate targeting of most at risk populations) includes “make explicit provision in the funding model for greater emphasis on community systems strengthening.”
Strategic Objective 4 (Promote and Protect Human Rights): “The “Gender Equality Strategy” and “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Strategy”, along with support for community systems strengthening are further contributions made by the Global Fund to advancing human rights in the context of the three diseases.

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Download CSS-info-note.pdf (731.95 KB)
Download day2-sat-malawi-css-and-nfm.pdf (218.52 KB)

Introduction to the New Funding Model

Introduction to the New Funding Model
This February 2014 guidance from the Global Fund provides an introduction to the new funding model for grant applications. The new model is intended to improve the way the Global Fund
assesses, approves, disburses, and monitors grants.
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Download intro-to-NFM.pdf (2.81 MB)

Engage!: Practical Tips to Ensure the New Funding Model Delivers the Impact Communities Need

Engage! brochure
This April 2014 brochure, Engage!: Practical Tips to Ensure the New Funding Model Delivers the Impact Communities Need, provides practical tips to ensure the new funding model delivers the impact communities need. Engage! has four main components:

understanding the new funding model;
determining how civil society should engage with country dialogue;
offering assistance about how civil society should develop concept notes and grants; and
a sample civil society process meeting agenda

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Download Engage-brochure.pdf (529.83 KB)