We are pleased to highlight some of MyGlobalFund's activities for the week beginning 3 March 2008. NEW FORUM: Round 8 Call for Proposals Starting 3 March, MyGlobalFund.org and the Proposal Advisory Services team are pleased to announce the Round 8 Call for Proposals Forum : an interactive tool to...

I agree with you totally; planning has to be done in a comprehensive manner and should be done through national planning and not when it is time to draft another proposal or just to get the numbers, results and performance that will only deliver very basic services and products to under-fives and pregnant...

and yes i agree totally t that a 'diagonal' approach is most likely a better description and more evidently sounding of how GF programmes should be conceptualised. and beside the opinion that vertical approach may solve the urgent needs in the our community (Iraq) ,but we found that horizontal...

As Dr. Inyang pointed out politics and bureaucracy plays a very important role in public health programming, reason why the host countries should be held accountable. The host countries should be made to provide the enabling platform to ensure that programs that are vertically implemented succeed. The...

This is a very important and timely debate and one which, in my opinion, GF recipient countries need to engage with especially as subsequent rounds of funding are awarded and multiple grants are being implemented in-country. In my experience of GF programmes (as a CCM member, sub recipient, and consultant...

Dear ALL, My experience in Nigeria is that, there is no one correct option to approaching Global Health. It is generally agreed that Health in itself is a political subject; there is no one option as to political governance. It is largely related to the socio-cultural affiliations of the society in question...

The resurgence of the age-old debate over vertical or horizontal approaches are best suited to meet the challenges of the future global health needs will have important conseqences for allocating limited resources. Others have argued that the choice need not be either vertical or horizontal, rather that...