Background documents

This page lists key documents on the themes of the Partnership Forum. A wealth of information on the structure and work of the Global Fund, on the process of applying for a grant and on many aspects of grant implementation is available on the Global Fund website.

General

• The Global Fund: Who We Are. What We Do
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• e-Forum Report
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• Follow-up on Partnership Forum 2006 Recommendations
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Five Year Evaluation

• The Five Year Evaluation of the Global Fund:
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• Study Area 1 – Global Fund Organizational Efficiency & Effectivenes
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• Study Area 2 – Global Fund Partnership Environment
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Partnership and gender (women and girls)

• Global Fund Gender Equality Strategy
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• Gender Fact-sheet
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Partnership and gender (sexual minorities)

• Sexual Minorities Fact-sheet
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• Shannon Kowalski and Susana Fried: Sex and the Global Fund: How Sex Workers, Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender People, and Men Who Have Sex with Men Are Benefiting from the Global Fund, or Not. Health and Human Rights Journal, August 2008
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Partnership and demand

• Bernard Rivers: Aidspan White Paper: Scaling Up to Meet the Need: Overcoming barriers to the development of bold Global Fund-financed programs, 21 April 2008
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Partnership and implementation

• Policy documents relating to grant implementation 
• An Evolving Partnership: The Global Fund and Civil Society in the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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• The Role of the Private Sector
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Partnership and coordination

• Report of The Global Fund Board Retreat on Partnerships
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