From our experience in Southern Sudan, the bigger the size of the CCM, the harder it becomes doing CCM business, specially in relation to communication. If the infrastructure of the country is week, as it is in our case, it becomes difficult to diseminate the minutes of meetings, or to get timely feedback...

PartnersGF - 2005-03-14 Global Fund Grants, Amounts of Available Funds as Opposed to Disbursal, Numbers on treatment, Number of deaths since project began ************************** [Mods’ Note: We would like to thank Dr. Richard Stern of Agua Buena Human Rights Association (based in Costa Rica) for...

PartnersGF - 2004-11-22 Further comments on civil society CCM participation *************************************************** Moderators’ note: While we wait for specific details of the decisions made by the GF board re. requirements for CCM participation by affected communities and civil society ...

tarigwafa - Feb 15, 2006 Dear Moderator; Top-down planning is one of the major problems in developing countries. Now GF is working in the same way in these countries ( at least one of them is SUDAN ) . It's better , and perfect enough to depend on bottom-up planning, in supporting implementation...

tarigwafa - Apr 08, 2006 Hello; pleased to meet you again. My contribution for this week will bring me back to several weeks ago. The only way to guarantee the success of such Global Fund programmes is to bridge the way directly to the grassroots. I'm saying this because from the experience of my...

tarigwafa - Feb 28, 2006 The Global Fund is not the only funding organization present in the scene . Many other funds work in the same areas where the Global Fund plays . For the balanced distribution of funds , I think we have to ensure the following takes place: 1) Strong collaboration with all funding...

tarigwafa - Feb 21, 2006 Dears ; Administrator and Memebers I was involved for the two past days in a workshop titled " THE ROAD TOWARDS UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO AIDS PREVENTION ,TREATMENT AND SUPPORT " By UNAIDS in Sudan.The GF has given a greater part of the discussion during these couple of days...

tarigwafa - Feb 13, 2006 Yes William: Unfortunately the case has been demonstrated that money by itself does not resolve the problem as scaling up manufacturing capacity, streamlining of beaurocratic bottlenecks and increasing the technical capacity to provide support to these interventions at all levels...

tarigwafa - Feb 11, 2006 Hello all; In my country, SUDAN , those who work in AIDS, MALARIA, and TUBERCULOSIS, senior health professionals and international NGOs are the only persons who are aware about the Global Fund . GF is missed in all other departments of health ,NGOs, CBOs and no one has heard...