Important-please read and respond regarding Global fund set up in India

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Dear AIDS-India forum and SAATHII members, please take few minutes

to complete the following questionnaire and e-mail it to

gfatm@h... and also send a copy to saathii

and/or AIDS-India

We will compile the answers and post it on both the list serves for

our readership and will send the same to Global Fund Transitional

working group.

Your responses are crucial as those will represent country level

response on how you would like the global fund to be set up and

distributed in India. Moderator)

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Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis & Malaria

Feedback Questionnaire

The Global Fund is in the final stages of preparation, a task

entrusted to a 'Transitional Working Group' (TWG) (see previous BTS

postings for further information). In the time that remains between

now and when the Fund will become operational towards the end of this

year, the TWG is holding a series of consultations with various

stakeholders in order to design the Fund so that it maximises the

benefit of this new financing mechanism. This message contains a

short set of questions as part of this preparation process.

During the course of the next few days, BTS shall distribute a number

of documents describing the principles, purposes and scope of the

Fund, and a short note about how the Fund might be organised at the

country level.

We would like to get your opinion on some important issues related to

the set-up of the Fund. Your opinions will be channelled to the TWG,

who will ultimately use them as inputs in their final decision-making

about how the Fund will be most useful.

Please press the REPLY option on your e-mail, and answer as many of

the following questions as openly as you can. Then send your

responses by email as soon as possible to:

E-mail: gfatm@h...

If you do not have any suggestions in response to a specific question,

just leave it blank.

Your participation and ideas are much appreciated.

Mick Mathews - UK NGO Consortium (E-mail: ukaidscon@g...)

Partlow - Global Health Council (E-mail:

mpartlow@g...)

Tim France - Health & Development Networks (E-mail: tfran@h...)

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GFATM - Questionnaire

1. Which of the following do you MOSTLY work on:

[ ] HIV/AIDS

[ ] Tuberculosis

[ ] Malaria

[ ] Various health-related issues

2. Obstacles and lessons learned at country level

a. What is the major obstacle you are presently facing when carrying

out HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB) work?

(Please put an X beside the ONE MOST IMPORTANT category and explain

why this is the biggest obstacle):

[ ] Insufficient money

[ ] Inadequate staffing/technical capacity

[ ] Inadequate organizational/management capacity

[ ] Lack of demonstrated success/evaluation

[ ] Ineffective health care system

[ ] Not enough political will

[ ] Too many other problems besides health issues

[ ] Don't know

[ ] Another reason (please add):

Why is this the biggest obstacle to your work?

b. How would a new funding scheme most likely help you to overcome

these obstacles?

3. Obtaining and using resources from the Global Fund at the country

level

a) Who should oversee the management of the Fund?

Please choose the ONE MOST IMPORTANT organization type:

[ ] Organisations of people infected with/affected by diseases of

poverty

[ ] Health-related service organisations

[ ] Medical doctors and health workers

[ ] Traditional Medicine advocacy groups

[ ] Education specialists and teachers

[ ] Politicians & government officers

[ ] Human rights organisations

[ ] Women's organisations

[ ] Children's rights organisations

[ ] International development agencies

[ ] Community based organisations

[ ] Cultural and religious leaders, faith-based organisations

[ ] Business community

[ ] Private sector or workplace representatives (trade unions, mass

organisations etc.)

[ ] Journalists and media organisations

[ ] Communication initiatives

[ ] Biomedical researchers

[ ] Behavioural & social scientists

[ ] Health Information Resource Centres

[ ] Donor organizations and Foundations

[ ] Other academics (anthropologists, etc.).

[ ] Don't know

[ ] Others: (please state who)

4. What organizations or structures should Fund resources be

channelled

through in your country?

[ ] Government offices/departments:

[ ] Ministry of Public Health

[ ] Other offices/departments

[ ] National-level non-governmental organizations

[ ] Women's organisations

[ ] Children's rights organisations

[ ] International development agencies (UN system)

[ ] Directly to community-based organizations and service providers

[ ] Religious and/or faith-based organisations

[ ] Private sector companies/business community/banks

[ ] Universities

[ ] Donor organizations and Foundations

[ ] A consortium of government, NGO and other organisations

[ ] A new organization dedicated to the Fund

[ ] Don't know

5. How could transparency and accountability in the use of the Global

Fund resources be encouraged in your country?

6. How will people know if the Global Fund resources are making any

difference in your country?

C. Global Fund operations

7. How should the Global Fund select the countries to receive

support?

8. Who do you think should receive resources from the Global Fund?

Please

choose the FIVE categories that you think are most eligible:

[ ] Organisations of people infected with/affected by diseases of

poverty

[ ] Health-related service organisations

[ ] Medical doctors and health workers

[ ] Traditional Medicine advocacy groups

[ ] Education specialists and teachers

[ ] Politicians & government officers

[ ] Human rights organisations

[ ] Women's organisations

[ ] Children's rights organisations

[ ] International development agencies

[ ] Community based organisations

[ ] Local communities in their own right (e.g., district-level etc)

[ ] Cultural and religious leaders, faith-based organisations

[ ] Business community

[ ] Private sector or workplace representatives (trade unions, mass

organisations etc.)

[ ] Journalists and media organisations

[ ] Communication initiatives

[ ] Biomedical researchers

[ ] Behavioural & social scientists

[ ] Health Information Resource Centres

[ ] Donor organizations and Foundations

[ ] Other academics (anthropologists, etc.)

[ ] Don't know

[ ] Others: (please specify)

D. Overall concept

9. From what you have heard about the Global Fund so far, how much

difference do you think it will make to diseases like HIV/AIDS,

tuberculosis and malaria in your country:

[ ] Decrease their impact a lot

[ ] Decrease their impact a little

[ ] It will make no difference

[ ] Increase their impact a little

[ ] Increase their impact a lot

[ ] Don't know

10. Are there particular issues you feel it is important to pay

attention

to

during the setting up of the fund, which have not been covered above?

11. What general observations can you make on the overall concept of

the

Global Health Fund as you understand it now?

12. Please add any other comments you would like to add about the

Global

Fund:

13. What ONE type of organisation do you work with most?

[ ] Biomedical research/lab

[ ] Business

[ ] Community Mobilisation

[ ] Development

[ ] Education

[ ] Fundraising

[ ] Government policy/programmes

[ ] Health/Medical/Clinic

[ ] Information dissemination

[ ] Law/Ethics

[ ] Policy Research

[ ] Policy advocate/activism

[ ] Press/Media

[ ] Religion/Culture

[ ] Social/Behavioural research

14. What professional category MOST suits your organisation?

[ ] Academic sector

[ ] Public sector

[ ] Private sector

[ ] Private sector non-profit

[ ] Non-governmental organization

[ ] Other

15. What continent do you work/live in?

[ ] Asia and Pacific

[ ] Eastern Europe

[ ] Latin America and the Caribbean

[ ] North Africa and the Middle East

[ ] North America

[ ] Sub-Saharan Africa

[ ] Western Europe

Now PLEASE SEND your completed questionnaire to:

E-mail: gfatm@h...

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