PartnersGF - 2005-03-03 

[partnersgf] Global Fund project in Honduras may be eliminated (6)
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[Mods Note: Simon Muchiru writes in response to the last posting on this subject where Richard Stern took the opportunity of the recent decision to reverse a recommendation for a Global Fund project in Honduras to be eliminated to ask what constitutes ‘poor implementation’ in the eyes of the Fund. You can find the last posting and others by clicking here: http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=partnersgf]
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While I agree that Global Fund should offer a definition [for ‘poor implementation’ of a project], we should not necessarily wait for them to define it. We can determine our own definition based on the experiences we have in development work and suggest that to Global Fund. The important issue here is not the definition of the terminologies, the issue is our understanding, appreciation and of good implementation based on beneficiaries’ perception, and backed up by our professional experience and traditional knowledge.

Perhaps it is time Global Fund, moved from office experience to the real world, where the people understand and appreciate their challenges in real terms and not according to definitions on paper.

Simon Muchiru
smuchiru@botsnet.bw