GF Partnership Forum Draft Report [2]
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Draft report of the the Global Fund 'Partnership Forum'
[Bangkok, Thailand] 7th & 8th July 2004


2. Key recommendations

Except where specifically noted, the recommendations listed in this section of the report reflect the expressed opinions of a very large majority or a consensus of participants at the Partnership Forum. The exact wording of most recommendations has been edited to allow for a merger of overlapping reports from the parallel working groups.


2.1 Recognizing the Fund's achievements

The Partnership Forum highlighted the substantial progress and success of the Global Fund in a very short time period. Most importantly, participants welcomed the success of the Fund in attracting and investing significant additional resources to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Many participants highlighted additional Fund benefits or successes, including: genuine responsiveness to country priorities and strategies; successfully linking life-saving malaria and tuberculosis work to the momentum of the global response to HIV/AIDS; introducing an unusual degree of transparency and consultation into a significant financing mechanism; pragmatically and creatively responding to criticism and crises; and maintaining an emphasis on the involvement of affected communities, as reflected in the recent Board decision to give the Communities Delegate to the Board full voting rights.

The overwhelming celebration of the Fund's initial successes was tempered by acknowledgement that real impact was yet to be demonstrated and by a series of specific criticisms of Fund performance, reflected further below.

Action required: none.