Senior Fellow Amanda Glassman is quoted in an article on reform of the Global Fund.
After weathering the departure of its executive director amidst a misallocation scandal earlier this year, the world’s largest funder of programmes to address HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is poised to announce a new leader Thursday.
“They need to do reform 2.0 which focuses on better measurement and accountability on actual disease results,”
Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy at the Centre for Global Development, told IPS. “We focus too much on paperwork being consistent instead of on what we want the paperwork to achieve,” she said.
“In order for the Global Fund to remain distinguishable from other organisations that can handle the money such as the World Bank, it needs to build out their performance base model and their accountability for results,” Glassman told IPS.
“If the Global Fund does this it will thrive in the next 10 years of its existence.”