My colleague Steve Radelet testified eloquently before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today, making a strong case for shaping up U.S. foreign assistance programs, and development policy more generally, in pretty fundamental ways.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has quickly become one of the world's largest funders of health programs. Just five years after its founding, it has approved proposals worth $6.8 billion for 448 programs in 136 countries, and disbursed over $3 billion.
With over 450 programs in more than 130 countries (and counting), the Global Fund certainly has its work cut out for it on monitoring and evaluation (M & E).
The Global Fund Board was unable to reach a decision on a new Executive Director after all, and has decided to extend the search until its April meeting. Steve Radelet discusses the situation and its implications over at Views from the Center.
Sobering news from a recent Save the Children report indicates that aid workers and UN peacekeeping troops continue to trade food for sex with young Liberian girls:
Sobering news from a recent Save the Children report indicates that aid workers and UN peacekeeping troops continue to trade food for sex with young Liberian girls:
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) was established very quickly in 2001 in response to a widespread perception that a rapid scale-up in financing was critical in the fight against the three diseases. Since it began operations in January 2002, GFATM has made important progress. It has raised substantial funding and become the world’s largest donor for TB and malaria. 70% of the programs reaching the two-year renewal stage are showing solid results. Rwanda, for example, has put over 4,000 people on ARV treatment, more than double its program target, and GFATM programs in aggregate have financed ARV treatment for 130,000 people to date.
