GLOBAL FUND: NGO BLASTS DONOR PRESSURE, POSTS PROPOSALS
The Health GAP Coalition yesterday said dozens of potential recipient
countries caved in to donor pressure and the likelihood of low funds by
pre-emptively weakening project proposals they submitted last week to the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The case for increased funding can only be made by bolder and more
comprehensive proposals, the coalition said. Calling on the Global Fund to
post country proposals on its Web site as a matter of transparency and good
governance, the coalition announced yesterday that, in the meantime, the
proposals will be posted on the Website Access Project for the Global Fund,
based at Harvard University's Center for International Development.
According to the coalition, the posting will provide countries with
information on how proposals should be made and enable a better
understanding of the need for an increase in funding.

The coalition also called on the Global Fund to ensure proposals are judged
on their merits, not according to artificial, undisclosed dollar limits.
The technical review committee should be allowed to operate without
political interference, and its recommendations should be posted on the
Global Fund Web site, the coalition said

SOURCE: Health GAP Coalition Press Release via Un Wire, 13 March 2002
Access Project for the Global Fund: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/gf/