Anna Maalsen, Manager of Thematic Cluster Key Populations, Community Engagement and Responses at The Global Fund, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“The Global Fund has launched its Grant Cycle 8 application materials and technical guidance.
GC8 comes at a moment of tighter resources and harder choices, with growing pressure on the systems that people rely on most, especially at community level. Against that backdrop, the guidance sends some important signals about what this cycle is trying to protect and strengthen.
There is a clearer, more integrated approach to addressing gender- and human rights–related barriers across HIV, TB and malaria, alongside stronger expectations on equity in both design and measurement. At the same time, GC8 places renewed emphasis on the role of community systems — not just as delivery channels, but as part of national systems that enable reach, accountability and trust.
How financing flows matters here. The guidance reinforces the importance of sustainable approaches that allow community-based providers to deliver priority services, generate demand, and hold systems to account, including through closer alignment with domestic financing and contracting mechanisms where possible.
For those working with countries and communities, this is less about technical compliance and more about direction of travel: equity, community engagement and financing choices are central to whether impact can be sustained in this cycle and beyond.
More detail is available here.
All core guidance — including the new Reducing human rights and gender-related barriers to HIV, TB and malaria services Technical Brief — can be found here.”
Julie S. Torode, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Patient and Community Engagement, Institute of Cancer Policy at King’s College London, shared a post by Anna Maalsen, adding:
“Attention friends if you are working on hashtag#cervicalcancer elimination, financing is feasible through the recognition of HIV-HPV co-infection.”