News & Updates

Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative Five Requests for Proposals The Global Fund has launched five Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in relation to the Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, for the implementation period January 2021 to December 2023. They include the following: Long term capacity strengthening of HIV key population networks and organizations download in English […]

Women4GlobalFund (W4GF) are excited to announce that we are scaling up our Accountability work. In September we will kick off a pilot project in three countries – everyone is still welcome to use the W4GF Accountability Framework/Toolkit here.  W4GF is seeking a Project Director to lead W4GF’s work on the Accountability Toolkit. We are looking for someone with a track record of successfully leading and managing national or regional programmes and projects, and with a […]

Videos on the Global Fund funding cycle, sustainability and country dialogue The Regional Platforms for Communication and Coordination Programme are an important activities of the Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Strategic Initiative. The MENA regional platform for communication and coordination has developed French and English versions of animated videos that explain the key concepts around […]

Compact Fund for Youth In Humanitarian Action Women4GlobalFund welcomes the launch of the Compact Youth Fund in responding to the needs of young people. The Youth Fund: COVID-19 Action (TYF) is a new fund to support youth action around the world, where the decisions on which projects are funded, are made by the youth. The fund is […]

Is universal health coverage working for women and girls? In September 2019, world leaders endorsed an ambitious and comprehensive political declaration on health at the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Some of the commitments that the UHC movement has focused on include gender equality – in particular to ensure […]

Calling W4GF Advocates to join the GFAN Speakers Bureau The Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) first launched its ‘Ambassadors’ program – composed of people living with or affected by HIV, TB and/or malaria – for its Here I Am Campaign in 2010, with a new group in 2012-2013. This evolved in 2015 into a ‘Speakers Bureau’ […]

Documenting experiences & lessons learnt in Global Fund country dialogues Many Women4GlobalFund W4GF Advocates have engaged at the national level to influence funding requests submitted in the Global Fund’s 2020–2022 allocation cycle. Whilst we have made many strides, in some countries meaningful engagement remains a challenge and advocates have worked hard to advocate for programmes and services […]

Don’t miss the The Technical Review Panel (TRPs) report on window 1 and don’t miss the W4GF webinar on Monday 28 July as we dive into how we are doing in window 2!  For more details about this webinar click here. The TRP releases reports and observations on the funding requests submitted to the Global […]

Community reflections from Global Fund window 2: How much progress are we making on gender equity? When Monday 27 July at 14:00 -15:30hrs (CAT) Why? Learn from countries that submitted funding requests in the Global Fund Window 2 [(2a) 30 April, 2b) 31 May, 2c) 30 June 2020]. The TRPs’ most recent report shows that despite some progress not […]

Women4GlobalFund has set up a working group to keep gender equity as a central priority in the next Global Fund Strategy (2023-2028). The W4GF team hope to find common positions so our voices are heard strongly – and to keep you up-to-date on the processes and timelines. Some of them will be quite demanding. See the timeline in the […]