The Partnership Forum meets every two years, gathering together a broad range of global stakeholders to discuss Global Fund performance and to make recommendations on its strategy and effectiveness. The Global Fund’s second Partnership Forum will take place in July 2006. The first was held in 2004 in Bangkok.

Participants represent grant recipients, civil society, donor and recipient governments, Board members, development agencies, technical and research agencies, foundations, and the private corporate sector. The aim is to engage both those who are closely linked to the Global Fund's architecture and those who are not.

To focus stakeholder discussion and input, the 2006 Partnership Forum will have four themes:

1. Global Fund architecture
2. Acceleration of grant performance
3. Harmonization of grants with national priorities and other development partners
4. Sustainability of the Global Fund model and its funding

Since not everyone can attend the Partnership Forum, the Global Fund uses a variety of other channels to encourage discussion and feedback, which will be shared with participants at the Forum event in 2006.

One of the most important channels is the E-Forum, which was launched on the Global Fund's website on December 1 (World AIDS Day). Other channels were the regional meetings held in the months leading up to the Global Partnership Forum.

The E-Forum is the Global Fund's on-line Partnership Forum. It has been one of the most important alternative channels for stakeholders to participate in dialogue and debate about the Global Fund's performance and influence the Partnership Forum event in July 2006.

The E-Forum facilitated structured discussions on the four themes set out for the Partnership Forum. The results of the E-Forum dialogue will forms the basis for the discussions and recommendations at the Partnership Forum event in July 2006.