[afro-nets] Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria approves $1.1 billion of new grants (2)

["Peter Burgess" <peterbnyc@gmail.com>]

Dear Colleagues

The information in this message is interesting ... but there is a missing dimension that makes the information useful for journalism but no much else.

The big issue is not only how much money has been consumed, or will be consumed, but how much result has been achieved or will be achieved.

The international relief and development sector uses money, and donors are provided reports that say how well the recipients have used the money ... but the tangible measures of results are to all extents and purposes totally missing.

I know there are some good activities that deliver good results ... but the facts about these are not available, and independent trusted validation is never possible. I also know that are a lot of activities where money is consumed and there are minimal results. Again, not surprisingly, there are no independent trusted reviews. Bottom line, the accounting is very very poor, the transparency, accountability and performance metrics are near zero.

And on top of this there is a continuing clamour for more and more money ... nothing wrong with more money as long as it delivers an adequate amount of tangible variable progress,

Sincerely

Peter Burgess

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Peter Burgess
The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
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IMMC - The Integrated Malaria Management Consortium Inc.
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