Working Groups

Occasionally, the HIV/AIDS Monitor collaborates on special projects that fall outside the Monitor’s main scope of work. To date, these projects have included two working groups that bring together a group of experts to offer recommendations to new leaders at two of the most important global institutions in the fight against HIV/AIDS: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNAIDS.

Global Fund Working Group

In advance of the first leadership change at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Center for Global Development convened a high-level independent Working Group to help the new Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine define the major tasks that he should primarily focus attention on, and provide specific recommendations for action. The Group identified seven key tasks, starting from operations in-country where ultimate results are achieved, through supporting arrangements aimed at making those operations more effective - technical assistance, performance based funding, procurement and supply chain strategies, and secretariat operations - and ending with the overarching issues of financing and Board relationships. The final report entitled "Future of the Global Fund: Challenges and Opportunities for the New Executive Director" was released in October 2006.

UNAIDS Transition Working Group

As the founding executive director of UNAIDS prepared to step down at the end of 2008, CGD and the Economic Governance Programme of Oxford University convened an expert Working Group to develop recommendations for the incoming leadership of UNAIDS, the Programme Coordinating Board and other stakeholders. A final report entitled "UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future", was issued in March 2009.