The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced “a transformation of its grant administration with simpler procedures that make it easier to access funding and facilitates operations in the field.” Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager of the Global Fund, said, “Significant changes to strengthen grant management and improve efficiency are reshaping the Global Fund as part of a broad transformation to raise overall effectiveness. We are building a system that starts and ends with impeccable grant management. What we do best is invest the world’s money to save lives, and this transformation will enable us to do it even better. It will strengthen our partnership with the implementers who are on the front line of the fight against the diseases.” The announcement noted that the Global Fund has made a 33 per cent increase in staff positions in the Grant Management Division, and a 38 per cent reduction in other departments, “as part of a stronger emphasis on managing the grants that fund disease prevention and treatment.”

http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/mediacenter/pressreleases/2012-04-02_Global_Fund_Transformation_to_Simplify_Procedures_for_Grant_Administration/