The board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has recently approved total country grant allocations for 120 countries for the next three years, with an amount of $13.2 billion — slightly higher than the $12.7 billion that the board approved for the current funding cycle.
The next step now is for the Global Fund to identify how much funding each country will receive. Global Fund hopes to send the allocation letters before the year ends, which kicks off the whole funding request process.
Devex spoke with Lindsay Smith, the manager of communication and information management at the access to funding department of the Global Fund, to learn how the whole process works and to provide guidance to NGOs — particularly first-timers — on how to access Global Fund grants.