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This page contains resources, technical guidance, and testimonials created by and for people who use drugs for the purpose of navigating the Global Fund. Check back here for the latest updates.

Global Fund Grant Revision Process

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The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) has produced a Global Fund Grant Revision Process brief. On the heels of INPUD’s June 2024 well-attended webinar of the same name, Amplifying the voices of the community in the Global Fund grant revision process advises drug user-led networks on the practice of renegotiating (or reprogramming) country-based, signed-off grants mid-cycle. 

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Global Fund Grant-Making for People Who Use Drugs

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This report unpacking the Global Fund (GF) grant-making process is essential reading for all drug user-led communities. Learn about the various stages and how our networks can participate to ensure that our community’s critical needs and priorities are addressed and included in each final grant agreement. 

Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical Guide

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The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) has produced Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 guide to support the engagement of people who use drugs within the Global Fund processes for Grant Cycle 7 2023 -2025 (formerly known as NFM4).

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Lessons from Peer Leaders who have been through the grant making process with the Global Fund.

Opening Remarks – Gayane Arustamyan | INPUD
Overview of the GF Grant Making Process – Hyeyoung Lim | Technical Advisor, CRG Department
Kenya: Experience & Lessons Learnt from GC6 – RoseMary Kasiba | SWOP Ambassadors
Nigeria: Experience & Lessons Learnt in Grant-making GC7 – Aniedi Akpan | DHRAN
Ukraine: Experience & Lessons Learnt in Grant-making GC7 – Oleg Dymaretsky | VOLNA
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Members of INPUD got together to share the process, progress and lessons learnt from the current GC7 funding cycle.

Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Technical Brief

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Webinar: Amplifying the Voices of Communities in Global Fund Reprogramming

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This webinar, hosted in 27 June 2024, discusses how drug user networks can access the Global Fund revision process at the country level.

Opening Remarks – Judy Chang | INPUD
Overview of the Global Fund Reprogramming | Pedro Trinidad Garcia, Community Engagement Strategic Initiative, CRG Department, Global Fund
Experience & Lessons Learnt from Ukraine GF Grant Revision | Oleg Dymaretsky, Ukrainian Network of People who Use Drugs (VOLNA)
Experience & Lessons Learnt from Benin GF Grant Revision | Carin Ahouada, Plan International Benin
Moderator – Gayané Arustamyan | INPUD

The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places more emphasis on community engagement and puts people and communities at the centre. This report assesses how this works in practice, sheds light on drug user engagement in CCMs, and identifies approaches to support our community in Global Fund-related processes.

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Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism Evolution (CCM)

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Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) play a crucial role within the Global Fund model. However, too often programmes overseen by CCMs do not perform as well as expected and do not meet the needs of key populations. The CCM Evolution project presents an opportunity for people who use drugs to effectively influence Global Fund programming by identifying gaps, blockages, and bottlenecks to meaningful community participation.

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Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) – Strategic Initiative: Short-Term Technical Assistance

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The Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Strategic Initiative (CRG SI) offers short-term peer-to-peer technical assistance to communities and civil society, including key population-led organisations and networks, to ensure that barriers related to community engagement, human rights, and gender equity are addressed. This guide focuses specifically on how to access short-term technical assistance.

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Communities at the Centre:
A report back on the experiences of key populations in the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7

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This joint community-led report ‘Communities at the Centre’ by INPUD, NSWP, MPact and GATE, reports back on the experiences of key populations in the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) focusing on Windows 1 and 2. It assesses what has worked well and identifies areas for continued improvement under the Global Fund’s GC7 and beyond.

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Members of INPUD got together to share the process, progress and lessons learnt from the current GC7 funding cycle.

NFM4: How People who Use Drugs can Meaningfully Engage

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The Global Fund is the largest donor of harm reduction in low-and middle-income countries and its funding is critical for protecting the human rights of people who use drugs, ensuring access to health care and strengthening community systems. To end AIDS and deliver on the ambitious 2025 targets, including the 10-10-10 societal enablers targets and the 80-60-30 community-led responses targets, people who use drugs need to be meaningfully engaged in all Global Fund programmes and processes at all levels. In preparation for the Global Fund 2023-2025 grant cycle (New Funding Model 4/NFM4), INPUD organised this webinar to introduce people who use drugs to NFM and particularly NFM4 with the aim to mobilise the community to engage in the processes on national level and influence their outcomes.

Global Fund Complaints Mechanism

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The Global Fund Complaints Mechanism is a tool that people who use drugs can utilise when reporting issues of corruption, fraud, human rights violations, mismanagement, and misuse of Global Fund funding to ensure that they are investigated and resolved.

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As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD organized a Peer Technical Support Hub in April 2022 on the topic of the Global Fund Complaints Mechanism and how it works for communities. The webinar familiarises networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of the GF Complaints Mechanism and Office of Inspector General (OIG), what value it brings to the community and how peers can get more engaged in these GF-related processes when reporting fraud, abuse and human rights violations.

Facilitating the Meaningful Involvement of People who Use Drugs in Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs)

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The Global Fund considers that the Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs)are “central to the Global Fund’s commitment to local ownership and are a ground-breaking, innovative mechanism towards stakeholder collaboration and participatory decision-making.” Despite this, people who use and inject drugs are rarely involved in official roles in Global Fund mechanisms, including CCMs, and are rarely meaningfully involved in discussions that impact their lives and livelihoods. This guide was designed by INPUD and ANPUD to strengthen the capacity of people who use and inject drugs in order to effectively and safely engage in the development, implementation and oversight of Global Fund grants and related processes at the national and regional levels, especially through CCMs
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