Independent Evaluation & Learning

Evaluation of the Global Fund Efforts to Maximize Gender Equality in HIV, TB and Malaria Programs

12 November 2024

Status: Not started

The Evaluation and Learning Office of the Global Fund, with oversight from the Independent Evaluation Panel, will commission an evaluation of Global Fund efforts to maximize gender equality in HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programs.

The objectives of the evaluation are:

  1. To assess the extent to which gender equality approaches are being integrated into HIV, TB and malaria disease programs supported by the Global Fund.
  2. To identify enabling and hindering (internal and external) factors - and their causes and effects - for integrating gender equality approaches into Global Fund-supported disease programs.
  3. To identify key lessons and successes that would allow the Global Fund partnership to reinforce, advance and sustain gender-responsive and transformative interventions in future disease programs.

This evaluation is a formative assessment to learn from the progress being made against the mutually reinforcing contributory strategy objective “Maximizing Health Equity, Gender Equality and Human Rights” to provide actionable recommendations to take forward in the second half of the Strategy cycle and future allocation periods.

The evaluation implementation period is expected to start in late January 2025 and run until end of September 2025.