The following reminder is from Global Fund Observer. Is the CCM submitting a Round Seven proposal? Is any other institution?
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The time to start working on Round 7 Global Fund Proposals is
NOW!
In the past, the most common problem faced by applicants to the
Global Fund was that the time period between the Fund issuing
its "Call for Proposals" and applicants having to submit the
completed proposal was not sufficient for all the work that had to be
done. Applicants could not start that work early, because they did
not know when the Call for Proposals would be issued.
However, this issue no longer arises, because at the Fund's last
Board meeting it was "pre-announced" when Rounds 7 and 8 will take
place. For Round 7, the Call for Proposals (when the proposal form
and guidelines will be published) will be on or before 1 March 2007,
with proposals to be submitted by early July 2007 and Board approval
in mid-November 2007. The Round 8 dates will be one year later.
Therefore, potential Round 7 applicants can and should start their
work now; there is no need to wait for the Call for Proposals.
Furthermore, applicants that start their work now have a good chance
of submitting stronger proposals than are submitted by applicants
that wait until the Call for Proposals.
However, even applicants that start now will find the work
requirement somewhat daunting. The Fund does not just require CCMs to
fill in a highly complex proposal form; it also requires them to
start by developing and documenting fair, transparent processes to
ensure input from a broad range of stakeholders - both CCM members
and non-members - in the proposal development process. (Requirements
for the few non-CCM applicants are somewhat different.)
Global Fund requirements state, in effect, that the process to be
followed by CCMs should be as follows:
1.The CCM publicly invites a broad range of stakeholders within the
country to submit their suggestions as to what should be included in
the proposal to be sent to the Global Fund.
2.The stakeholders prepare their suggestions and send them to the CCM.
3. The CCM reviews the suggestions, and decides which ones will be
incorporated into the CCM proposal.
4. The CCM completes the Fund's proposal form, gets it signed by all
CCM members, and submits it to the Fund.
Doing this thoroughly will take some applicants longer than the four
months between the Call for Proposals and the application deadline.
But there's no reason not to start the process now.
Steps (1) through (3) can all be worked on before the Fund issues its
Call for Proposals and publishes the Round 7 proposal form.
Furthermore, applicants can review the Round 6 proposal form and
guidelines (at www.theglobalfund.
conceptual approach - goals, objectives, service delivery areas,
major activities, indicators, targets and budgets - that has been
used in recent rounds and will be used again in Round 7.
A CCM that wants to be ahead of the game will invite suggestions from
a broad range of stakeholders, review the suggestions and do serous
work designing the project(s) that it wants the Global Fund to
finance - BEFORE the Fund issues its Call for Proposals two-and-a-
half months from now.
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