Dear Forum Member,
Apologies for the delay in responding your question. As you may have seen, the Forums are being launched this week and we were working on the structure of the platform. Here is the information you request, and we hope that this can respond to your question.The typical avenues for submitting a proposal to the Global Fund come from three types of applicants:
(i) Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs); and
(ii) Sub-CCMs –which are coordinating mechanisms organized at a level lower than the national level (for example, state level depending on the circumstances of the country); and
(iii) Regional Organizations or Regional Coordinating Mechanisms, which operate across a number of proximate countries to achieve outcomes beyond that which could be achieved through a country by country approach.
In general, the Global Fund requires proposals to be developed through country-led or regional coordinating mechanisms. They don’t have to be called a “CCM” or “RCM” per se, but each mechanism must meet the minimum requirements for eligibility as established for coordinating mechanisms (please refer to the following link:
http://www.theglobalfund.org/pdf/5_pp_guidelines_ccm_4_en.pdf).
Under very limited circumstances the Global Fund will review non-CCM proposals, provided they meet one of the following criteria:
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A country without a legitimate government; or
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A country in conflict/at war, facing a wide-scale natural disaster, or in a complex emergency situation (as identified by the Global Fund through the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs); or
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Countries that suppress or have not established partnerships with civil society and non-governmental organizations. These circumstances include a national CCM's failure or refusal to consider an NGO/civil society proposal for inclusion into the national composite CCM proposal.
Any group, organization, or institution submitting a proposal as a non-CCM applicant must provide very clear documented evidence relevant to the three conditions noted above. If they meet one of these three conditions, the non-CCM proposal will be forwarded to the Technical Review Panel for technical evaluation. The Global Fund can not predict at this point whether Myanmar itself will or will not form a CCM before Round 8 (application materials are released on 1 March 2008), and whether it will submit a national proposal having developed partnerships with civil society and non-governmental organizations. Neither can the Global Fund encourage or suggest that a consortium of organizations within Myanmar submit a non-CCM proposal in Round 8 based upon the above mentioned criteria.
Finally, dual track financing (DTF) is a proposed policy, applicable from Round 8, whereby CCMs will be asked to nominate two principal recipients (one from government and one from civil society and/or private sector) for each disease component in order to further the greater participation of civil society in grant implementation. This nomination will be required unless there are reasons provided by the applicant to explain the benefits of nominating only one Principal Recipient. The DTF policy is still in development and has not been envisaged to address the needs of non-CCM applicants. We do not know, at this point in time, whether non-CCM proposals will be required to nominate dual principal recipients.