
The current issue of
Global Fund Observer by
Aidspan offers an excellent
review and commentary on Global Fund grant performance to date. The Fund has signed 212 grant agreements. On review, 22 have been identified as '"well-performing" and 25 as "slow moving". One important finding:
Sixty percent of all grant agreements have a Principal Recipient (PR) from the governmental sector, and 40% have a PR from civil society, the private sector, or a multilateral agency. But GFO found that every one of the 25 "slow-moving" grants is one of those that has a governmental PR. This confirms the views of many that although at times there is no choice but to use a governmental PR, when there is an option, it is often better to use some other kind of PR.
Additional progress reports are available on the
Global Fund site.