The first five years of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Meeting with All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS and Sir Richard Feachem

Sir Richard Feachem was invited by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS to reflect on the first five years of the Global Fund.

Summary of key points about the Global Fund and innovative ways to deliver new development models:

Key innovations of the Global Fund:

• The Global Fund and GAVI are the first organisations to rely on those financed, i.e. the countries receiving funding. The Global Fund does not have input into to who applies or for what. Countries make a choice to apply and the proposals are 100% locally originated.

•  Performance based funding. Again the Global Fund and GAVI were the first to do this. Money follows the good results, and brings a new validity for development finance.

•  Public/ Private Partnerships are a successful way to ensure that initiatives are carried out whether they are Government led or not.

• The Global Fund is leading on transparency. Our programmes are completely transparent. Trust is imperative to carry out this work. The question is why the Global Fund is leading on this. Governments should strive for the same achievement on transparency.

• The Global Fund has taken politics out of development finance. There is no political agenda involved in this and donors are asked to leave their politics behind. This ensures a more efficient way to grant, terminate and evaluate programmes.

Sir Richard Feachem also emphasised the need to apply the same attitude to governments in Africa as on the ones in the EU. Often demands are made on Southern governments which would not be asked of those in the EU.

He also mentioned that future aid needs to be anchored in equity rather than debt, a model which had previously been the model aid.

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