RE: Malaria Global Fund Funding Request GC8 documents
Shafiqul Islam
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Dear Manaj and colleagues,
Thank you for sharing the draft GC8 grant applications for all three diseases. My apologies for not being able to attend today’s FR Development Committee meeting due to my eye problem, and to avoid any risk of infection to others.
Please find below my initial reflections on the draft applications.
Overall, the draft applications are broadly aligned with Global Fund GC8 strategic shifts and shows stronger emphasis on RSSH, efficiency, and transition. To strengthen TRP confidence and Country Team buy‑in—particularly given shrinking allocations and GC9 being the final cycle for HIV and malaria—the application would benefit from sharper prioritisation, more credible transition pathways, and clearer operational integration.
Three strategic areas merit particular attention:
Prioritisation discipline: The application remains activity‑dense in places. TRP will expect explicit evidence of what has been deprioritised or scaled back, with resources clearly focused on highest‑burden geographies and populations. A short section on what was stopped or reduced—and why across all three diseases would strengthen this narrative.
Transition realism: While domestic financing is referenced, time‑bound transition pathways—especially for HR, community systems, and lab/sample transport—are uneven. Clear GC8 → GC9 → post‑Global Fund milestones, aligned with MoF planning cycles, would reduce the risk of TRP concerns around aspirational co‑financing.
Operational integration: Integration is well signalled but insufficiently operationalised. A simple framework outlining what becomes integrated (e.g. HIV/TB services, labs, supply chains, surveillance), where, and by when—along with justification for any remaining parallel systems—would materially strengthen the RSSH argument.
Across diseases, it will also be important to explicitly protect minimum investments in community and civil society platforms, particularly for key populations (HIV), adherence and PPM (TB), and surveillance/outreach in low‑endemic malaria settings, to avoid repeating GC7 equity and continuity risks.
Disease‑specific elements are generally sound; however, HIV sustainability beyond GC9 remains the most fragile and would benefit from clearer articulation of what the state will and will not fund, and how service continuity for key populations will be safeguarded.
Finally, a short implementation risk and mitigation table (grant management capacity, SR coordination, CCM oversight and mid‑course correction) would further strengthen credibility with both TRP and the Country Team.
With tighter prioritisation, more fiscally grounded transition pathways, and clearer operational integration, the GC8 application is well positioned to be seen as credible and reform‑aligned.
Best regards,
Dr. Md. Shafiqul Islam I Health Adviser I British High Commission Dhaka I
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Subject: Fwd: Malaria Global Fund Funding Request GC8 documents
Dear All,
Please find the attached file for the Draft GC8 FR for Malaria. You are requested to review before the 4th FR Development Committee meeting on 10th May at 11.00 am in DGHS Conference Room. According to the decision of the FR Development Committee meeting we will share it widely before finalization.
With the kind support of consultants, Malaria PRs are requested to kindly prepare the Malaria FR presentations for the 4th FR Development Committee Meeting on 10th May 2026.
With Best regards
Manaj
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Subject: Fwd: Malaria Global Fund funding request GC6 documents
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Dear Manaj,
Kindly find the link to the file that contains the Malaria GC8 documents. Thanks to team Malaria! Great work!!
A TB file is to follow shortly this evening.
Both programs will continue to make adjustments to these documents as required.
Kind regards,
Christine
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Christine M. Whalen MD, FRCP
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Christine M. Whalen MD, FRCP
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