African Council of AIDS Service Organizations

Le Réseau des Hommes Africains pour la Santé Sexuelle et les Droits (AMSHeR) recherche, à partir du 1^er Mai 2012, un Coordinateur de Programme pour la région de l’Afrique francophone du Centre et de l’Ouest. Le poste est basé au secrétariat de l’African Council for AIDS Service Organisations (AfricASO) à Dakar, au Sénégal.

HelpAge International Wins $1.5 Million Hilton Humanitarian Prize

International jury selects only global NGO with singular focus on improving the lives of the world’s fastest growing population -- older people

International Women’s Day: HelpAge calls for greater recognition for millions of older women who are the invisible backbone of communities, families, food production

LOS ANGELES – March 8, 2012 – HelpAge International, the only global organization with a singular focus on providing assistance to and advocating for disadvantaged older people, has been selected to receive the 2012 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize of $1.5 million. The Prize will be presented at the Global Philanthropy Forum on April 16 in Washington, D.C.

The term of the first RAC members selected in 2008 has expired and been renewed for one more year. The recommendations of the last RAC meeting held in Accra, October, 5- 7, 2010 according to the texts ask for a renewal of that body at the 2/3 of its members.

In this light, the call for application is been launched for the recruitment of 10 new members for WATAG’s   Regional Advisory Committee. The concerned countries by this call for application are: Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo.

Please find the terms and conditions to apply in english and in french.

Sony Corporation and the Global Fund have entered into a partnership for the implementation of behaviour change projects, in which Sony provides state of the art equipment and movies, and the Global Fund ensures that they are provided to agencies best able to reach communities most in need.

Report touches on several issues related to the OIG

Sub-committee says that imposing more and more requirements on implementers may cause some of them to "walk away"

Is it worth trying to recover "losses" from "ineligible" and "undocumented" expenditures - as identified by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) - from grants in the early rounds of funding, considering that these losses occurred some time ago, and the fact that, at the time, the Global Fund and the implementers were in "emergency mode"?

Ten country audits, eight diagnostic reviews planned for 2012

The Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has conducted an investigation into actions of a fund portfolio manager (FPM) in the Global Fund Secretariat, and has concluded that some allegations against the FPM have merit. This information is contained in the OIG's progress report for the period April-October 2011.

The Board made an important decision at its 25th Board Meeting on 22 November 2011 relating to Round 11 proposals, Second Wave of National Strategy Applications (NSA) and funding requests through the Health Systems Funding Platform (HSFP) (GF/B25/DP16 (PDF - 216 KB)).