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Human Rights for HIV, TB, Malaria and HSS Grants: Information Note

Human Rights for HIV, TB, Malaria and HSS Grants: Information Note
The Global Fund Strategy, Investing for Impact 2012-2016, has five objectives. One of these commits to protecting and promoting human rights by:

Integrating human rights considerations throughout the grant cycle;
Increasing investment in programs that address human rights-related barriers to access; and
Ensuring the Global Fund does not support programs that infringe human rights.

The Global Fund’s mandate focuses on ensuring access to health services and in this way, promoting the right to health. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that the right to health can only be realized if other intersecting human rights are protected, promoted and fulfilled. However, a 2011 UNDP, UNAIDS and Global Fund study found that in settings where key populations are criminalized, Global Fund proposals and grants often did not include human rights programs that benefit the populations who need those services most. In the new funding model, applicants are strongly encouraged to incorporate human rights programming in their concept notes.

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Human Rights in the Global Fund New Funding Model

Human Rights in the Global Fund New Funding Model
A summary presentation of the Global Fund’s new funding model for applicants. The core principles for the strategy include:

Invest more strategically
Evolve the funding model
Actively support grant implementation success
Promote and protect human rights

Integrate human rights considerations throughout the grant cycle
Ensure the Global Fund does not support programs that infringe human rights
Increase investment in programs that address human rights barriers to accessing health services

Sustain the gains, mobilize resources

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Community Systems Strengthening and Key Populations

Community Systems Strengthening and Key Populations: a Policy Discussion Paper
Published in 2013 by the MSMGF, this policy paper proposes recommendations related to the future of CSS, outlining the roles of key population groups in taking these recommendations forward. Recommendations include:

Provide input into the CSS modules in the Global Fund’s New Funding Model frameworks.
Conduct a detailed revision of the CSS monitoring and evaluation framework.
Develop, test, and establish tools for assessing the role of community systems in a given country or context.
Broaden CSS from its current position as a primarily Global Fund–focused initiative.

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The Global Fund’s New Funding Model: Early Outcomes for Regional Civil Society Applicants

The Global Fund's New Funding Model: Early Outcomes for Regional Civil Society Applicants
This report provides an assessment of the challenges and opportunities encountered by Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) during the process of preparing, negotiating, and beginning to implement a regional civil society application under the new funding model (NFM) as an early applicant. In order to ensure the NFM catalyzes regional applications from civil society, particularly those applications focused on civil society-led advocacy and mobilization for policy change, this report also provides recommendations to the Global Fund and relevant partners based on these experiences. In particular, this report explores the role, involvement, and participation of civil society and key affected populations at each step in the process.

The report, prepared between December 2013 and January 2014, is the result of a review of EHRN’s efforts at each step in the NFM early application process (up to January 2014), including the regional dialogue process, concept note development, selection of grant Sub Recipients (SRs), grant negotiation with the Global Fund Secretariat, and grant-making. The author completed a desk review of relevant documents provided by EHRN, the Global Fund Secretariat, and other stakeholders and conducted interviews with a range of participants who had engaged in different steps in the process, including EHRN staff, UN partner organizations, donor organizations, national and international civil society organizations, networks of people who use drugs, networks of people living with the diseases, consultants involved in the concept note drafting
process, and Global Fund Secretariat staff.

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Harm Reduction for People Who Use Drugs

Harm Reduction for People Who Use Drugs
Preventing HIV and other harms among people who inject drugs – and providing them with effective, appropriate, and voluntary treatment where needed or wanted – are essential components of national HIV responses, yet often present major challenges. People who inject drugs in low- and middle-income countries have limited and inequitable access to HIV prevention and treatment services. In prisons and pre-trial detention settings, access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care is even more limited despite evidence that drug use and sexual activity are prevalent in these settings.
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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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