News & Updates

In April 2015, the Open Society Foundations convened a consultation of experts and advocates concerned about the future of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, particularly in the areas of preserving support to important programs in middle-income countries, realising the Global Fund’s human rights objectives, and the role of the Global Fund […]

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] “We want a Global Fund that continues to invest towards the advancement of human rights and gender equality for all…” Read more on key asks around women and gender! Ahead of the 15th Strategy Impact and Investment Committee (SIIC) meeting, communities and civil society organisations submitted this position statement. This position statement (endorsed […]

Provide comments – based on the top line questions asked around gender, women and girls on the introduction and the seven main chapters that make up the Global Plan to Stop TB. The consultation period will run through till 10 August 2015. The Stop TB Partnership has launched the online consultation on the first public […]

Proposals due by 07 July 2015, 12:00 (Noon), Geneva time. Request for Proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean and Francophone Africa (in English and French) can be accessed here.   BACKGROUND The Global Fund Secretariat aims to support and strengthen civil society and community engagement at all levels of Global Fund processes. The Regional Platforms are […]

Women4GF share an article posted by Owen Nyaka from Malawi on June 3, 2015 from Key Correspondents Reporting for Action on HIV _________ A coalition of African women are calling on governments to fully address cultural and traditional practices that continue to put women and girls at greater risk of HIV. Tendayi Kateketa-Westerhof, Pan-African Positive Women’s […]

A webinar was organised and hosted by W4GF on the 3rd June 2015 for W4GF advocates and partners to share experiences and thoughts from the participation at the Global Fund 1st Partnership Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; as well as to inform participants that would be attending the 2nd Partnership Forum. The webinar was attended […]

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS JUNE 21, 2015   Job Summary The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific is a partner of the Global Fund Advocates Network and aims to facilitate more consolidated advocacy efforts by communities and civil society in the Asia-Pacific region towards sufficient investments in health, and especially in HIV, TB and malaria, through the mobilisation […]

The Global Fund Strategy for 2017-2021 in under development. ICASO has developed an Advocacy Alert that can be used by Women4GF advocates who want to know about the process and priorities under consideration and provides a timeline of key milestones. Women4GF advocates have a key role to play in shaping the Global Fund’s next strategy […]

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria places strong emphasis on the meaningful engagement of communities and civil society organisations in its processes. The roll-out of the Global Funds current funding model over the past two years has created new spaces for engagement – through the country dialogue, concept note writing and grant-making […]

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The following is an interview that was conducted on May 7, 2015 at the Partnership Forum in Addis Ababa by W4GF Programme Coordinator, Ms Sophie Dilmitis with Ms Zelda Nhlabatsi from Swaziland. Ms Nhlabatsi is the Executive Director of Family Life Association of Swaziland, as well as a W4GF advocate, […]