Donors got creative in their efforts to replenish the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria with $12.9 billion last weekend in Montreal, Canada.
A range of public and private donors pledged to the Global Fund, including many for the first time. In addition to seeing new contributors, pledges came via a variety of new funding mechanisms and arrangements, part of an effort to secure longer-term donor buy-in and shake up the traditional pledging model.
“The Global Fund has been a unique and successful experiment,” James McIntyre Brown, head of health at Adam Smith International told Devex in an email. “Its key achievement has been the effective pooling of resources to focus on tackling the key drivers of the most threatening communicable diseases,” he said.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
