Board Decisions

GF/B07/DP10

Approved by the Board on: 19 March 2004

Prioritization in Resource Constrained Environments (Report of the Portfolio Management and Procurement Committee, Annex 5)

The Board adopts the following system for prioritizing among TRP-recommended proposals in the event that insufficient resources are immediately available to approve all TRP-recommended proposals. 

1. A composite index would be used to assign scores to TRP-recommended proposals, as described below.

2. For Round 4, the criteria used in this composite index would be poverty and disease burden. The Board requests the PMPC to review the possibility of including an additional criteria for the Fifth and subsequent Rounds around repeated failures and countries that have not previously received funding.

3. The indicators, values, and scores for the first two criteria are:
   
   

   Criteria	Indicator	Value	Score
   Disease burden	Eligibility criteria for proposals from Upper-Middle Income countries (applied to all proposals)	"Very high"	4
   		Not "very high"	1
   Poverty	World Bank classification	Low Income	4
   		Lower-Middle Income	2
   		Upper-Middle Income	0

4. In the event that insufficient resources are immediately available to finance all TRP-recommended proposals, TRP-recommended proposals would be financed in the following order:
   1. Proposals in TRP category 1
   2. Proposals in TRP category 2.
5. If category 2 is sub-classified by the TRP into subcategories, these would be financed sequentially, with the proposals in the higher-rated subcategories being financed before those in lower-rated subcategories.

6. Proposals in the highest-rated category (or subcategory, if category 2 is broken down by the TRP into subcategories) for which insufficient resources are available would be assigned a score in accordance with the above table. They would then be financed in descending order (with the highest scoring proposals receiving priority).

7. There would be no further subdivision of the groups formed by the combination of the TRP category/subcategory and score would be made.

8. If insufficient resources are available to immediately finance all TRP-recommended proposals, the Secretariat would be responsible for assigning scores to proposals and would present the Board with these scores at the time of the Board's consideration of the TRP's recommendations.