The Global Fund is Looking for Experts

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The Global Fund is looking for experts to serve on its Technical Review Panel

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international

financing institution that invests the world's money to save lives. To date, it

has committed US$ 19.3 billion in 144 countries to support large-scale

prevention, treatment and care programs against the three diseases.

Funding proposals submitted to the Global Fund are reviewed by a 43-member

Technical Review Panel (TRP). The review takes place about once a year for two

weeks, which current members have described as `a unique and memorable

experience'.

Because proposals focus on the fight against the three diseases and related

health systems strengthening, members of the TRP need to have a wide range of

expertise. In addition to having sound technical knowledge and extensive program

experience in HIV/AIDS, TB or malaria, it is also important that TRP members

understand broader health systems and development `cross-cutting' issues. These

include capacity-building, governance and macroeconomics, as well as topics such

as budgeting and financial management (value for money), gender, sexual

orientation and gender identities, human resources, procurement and service

delivery – to name but a few. For this reason, we do not recruit people with

very narrow expertise.

For this important task, experts must be able to review large volumes of

documentation under considerable time pressure and work effectively in small

groups and large plenary sessions to reach consensus on funding recommendations.

They must also be able to present their findings in a clear and concise way, in

English, to the full panel, as well as in written form to be communicated to the

Board and applicants.

TRP members can serve for up to four rounds of review. In addition to the two

weeks of on-site proposal review, experts will also need to be available, by

email, for the following six months to clarify any technical or programmatic

issues. This adds up to about 5 more days of work each year. TRP members receive

an honorarium of US$ 9,000 per round for the proposal review and subsequent

clarification process.

The Global Fund supports programs in a diversity of situations and country

contexts. We therefore want to attract a good balance of men and women with

experience from all regions of the globe; experts with knowledge of public and

private sectors and civil society; and people who are living with or affected by

HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria.

If you would like more details on this challenging opportunity, please visit the

website of HLSP, the agency handling this recruitment

http://www.hlsp.org/opportunities/globalfundTRP

Completed application forms should be emailed to globalfund.trp@... to

arrive no later than 31 May 2010.

For more information on the Global Fund: http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/trp/