Board Decisions

GF/B13/DP34

Approved by the Board on: 28 April 2006


Whistle-blowing Policy

The Board approves the Whistle-blowing policies set forth in Annex 1A and 1B in the Report of the Ethics Committee (GF/B13/6), as amended below, and encourages the Office of Inspector General to implement these policies as soon as practical.

Footnote 3 in the Whistle-blowing policy for the Secretariat and Governance Bodies of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Annex 1A) is amended to read as follows:

This section shall not apply to Secretariat staff until such time as the World Health Organization determines that the Policy may be implemented under WHO rules and takes all administrative steps to facilitate its implementation.


Budgetary Implications

The budgetary implications of this decision point have been included and presented with the budget of the Office of the Inspector General.