Planning Considerations

The goal of the applying for funding stage is to ultimately design quality grants that are ready for implementation before the current grant ends.

Applicants, together with Principal Recipients and Global Fund Country Teams, plan applying for funding and grant-making timelines and materials in an integrated manner to ensure grants are signed on time and activities can start on the first day of a new grant.

Ideally, this means grants are signed one month before the end of the current grant. This helps maximize the impact of the new allocation to achieve the objectives of the grant.

Important elements of this plan include determining program split, deciding the composition of the funding requests, and facilitating an inclusive country dialogue for funding request development.

Program Split

The Allocation Letter from the Global Fund includes a recommendation of how the allocation amount should be split across eligible disease components, based on the allocation methodology. This is called the program split.

Applicants have the flexibility to revise the program split between eligible disease components and sustainable health systems activities to better suit the country context. Informed by country dialogue, the CCM uses a documented and inclusive process to determine how to best designate the funding.

CCMs are encouraged to decide up front how the process will work, set up meetings to determine the program split, and ensure discussions are data-based and include representatives for health systems.

In these discussions, CCMs are asked to consider and plan necessary investments in cross-cutting RSSH interventions. In most cases, these discussions are documented and communicated to the Global Fund in the form of a Program Split.

More information on Program Split.

Funding Request Composition

Funding requests can be composed of requests for one or more eligible components. Applicants should consider which components will be included in the funding requests they submit to the Global Fund.

More information on funding request composition will be published here when available.

Country Dialogue when Applying for Funding

The Global Fund requires governments, civil society, people affected by the diseases, technical partners, the private sector and other partners to come together to decide how to best use the funding to meet the needs of people and communities. These country dialogues are expected to take place throughout the grant life cycle, but are a specific requirement when countries apply for funding.

When planning country dialogue, CCMs should carefully consider how to structure conversations to maximize the impact of their funding requests, to ensure that dialogue meets Global Fund requirements, and to respond to the priorities of communities and civil society.

Country Dialogue for Applying for Funding in GC8

More information on Country Dialogue when applying for funding in GC8 will be available here when available.

Meeting CCM Eligibility Requirements

CCMs must ensure that country dialogue will satisfy the CCM Eligibility Requirements. Two of these requirements are screened when funding requests are submitted:

1. Ensure that the funding request is the result of a transparent and inclusive process; and
2. A transparent and documented Principal Recipient (PR) selection process.

The review of these requirements is differentiated, with the appropriate level of screening to be determined by the Compliance Review Panel. Countries determined to have a higher risk of non-compliance will receive greater scrutiny and an in-depth review. Others will undergo lighter screening.

The Guidance on CCM Eligibility Requirements 1 and 2 document contains further information.