idowu.akanmu@gmail.com
Reply To: malaria@my.ibpinitiative.org
To: malaria@my.ibpinitiative.org
I wish to rehash that the intent of the Fund ab initio is to save lives in the poorest of the poor communities because the coventional governments in those places have failed their people as a result of widespread corruption and profligacy.
The right step to take by the OIG of the Global Fund is to expend more in strenthening country financial management systems and having more palpable presence in-country to forestall a situation whereby the children of Paul-the-peasant are damned and punished for the sins of Peter-the-extravagant.
I am happy to read that this is in the official response from the office of the OIG to Gerson's critique and I am confident that with such a development, more lives will be saved deservedly.
Grant portfolio managers of recipient countries need to pay more attention to foggy issues and do more to prevent unduly long grant negotiation periods that end up taking away the shine from the essence of such grants.
Bottom line from me is that hopes of millions should not be sacrificed on the altar of belated measures at ensuring financial monitoring and graft mitigation.
The baby is dirty, wash her clean, wipe her dry and do away with just the bathwater.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
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From: "Bright Orji"
Date: 5 Feb 2011 09:24:35 +0100
To: Malaria Update
ReplyTo: "Malaria Update"
Subject: [malaria] GFATM response
The efforts of the office of the Inspector General of GFATM is commendable. It is important to continue to build support for GFATM and encourage donor donations not to withhold their contributions while fighting to ensure that wrong use of the funds is put to a final stop.. The contributions of GFATM in the last few years have been enormous in saving the lives of those at risk in poorer nations of the world. I guess it will be better to save lives by not allowing those poor kids and women at risk to die than to stop the contributions due to the activities of evil ones in the society.
Jhpiego - Innovating to Save Lives
Orji Bright Jhpiego - An Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2/6 Akpakpan Street, CPD Building
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Nigeria Country Office,
3rd Floor, Labour House,
Central Area, Garki.
Mobile: +234 80 370 96014
Email Address: oclement@jhpiego.net
Website Address: www.jhpiego.org
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From: William Brieger
To: Malaria Update
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 7:19:06 AM
Subject: [malaria] GFATM response
Seems the negative press that Gerson critiques so well still had some effect on the global fund even though as pointed out the Office of the Inspector General of the Global Fund seems to have had things well in hand -
NYT - World Briefing
AFRICA
Health Fund Adds Fraud ChecksBy CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: February 4, 2011
LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced steps on Friday to strengthen antifraud safeguards, including doubling the budget for internal investigations. The group acted after a Jan. 23 article by The Associated Press described corruption in grants to Mali, Mauritania, Zambia and Djibouti. The fund said it was seeking to recover $34 million from those and other countries, an amount it said was less than 1 percent of the $13 billion in aid it has disbursed in 145 countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/world/africa/05briefs-HEALTHFUNDAD_BRF.html
William Brieger
http://www.malariafreefuture.org/blog/
Senior Malaria Specialist, JHPIEGO -
http://www.jhpiego.org/whatwedo/malaria.htm
Professor, Health Systems Program, Department of International Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=90;
malaria updates at: http://twitter.com/bbbrieger
Reply To: malaria@my.ibpinitiative.org
To: malaria@my.ibpinitiative.org
I wish to rehash that the intent of the Fund ab initio is to save lives in the poorest of the poor communities because the coventional governments in those places have failed their people as a result of widespread corruption and profligacy.
The right step to take by the OIG of the Global Fund is to expend more in strenthening country financial management systems and having more palpable presence in-country to forestall a situation whereby the children of Paul-the-peasant are damned and punished for the sins of Peter-the-extravagant.
I am happy to read that this is in the official response from the office of the OIG to Gerson's critique and I am confident that with such a development, more lives will be saved deservedly.
Grant portfolio managers of recipient countries need to pay more attention to foggy issues and do more to prevent unduly long grant negotiation periods that end up taking away the shine from the essence of such grants.
Bottom line from me is that hopes of millions should not be sacrificed on the altar of belated measures at ensuring financial monitoring and graft mitigation.
The baby is dirty, wash her clean, wipe her dry and do away with just the bathwater.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Bright Orji"
Date: 5 Feb 2011 09:24:35 +0100
To: Malaria Update
ReplyTo: "Malaria Update"
Subject: [malaria] GFATM response
The efforts of the office of the Inspector General of GFATM is commendable. It is important to continue to build support for GFATM and encourage donor donations not to withhold their contributions while fighting to ensure that wrong use of the funds is put to a final stop.. The contributions of GFATM in the last few years have been enormous in saving the lives of those at risk in poorer nations of the world. I guess it will be better to save lives by not allowing those poor kids and women at risk to die than to stop the contributions due to the activities of evil ones in the society.
Jhpiego - Innovating to Save Lives
Orji Bright Jhpiego - An Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2/6 Akpakpan Street, CPD Building
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Nigeria Country Office,
3rd Floor, Labour House,
Central Area, Garki.
Mobile: +234 80 370 96014
Email Address: oclement@jhpiego.net
Website Address: www.jhpiego.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: William Brieger
To: Malaria Update
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 7:19:06 AM
Subject: [malaria] GFATM response
Seems the negative press that Gerson critiques so well still had some effect on the global fund even though as pointed out the Office of the Inspector General of the Global Fund seems to have had things well in hand -
NYT - World Briefing
AFRICA
Health Fund Adds Fraud ChecksBy CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: February 4, 2011
LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced steps on Friday to strengthen antifraud safeguards, including doubling the budget for internal investigations. The group acted after a Jan. 23 article by The Associated Press described corruption in grants to Mali, Mauritania, Zambia and Djibouti. The fund said it was seeking to recover $34 million from those and other countries, an amount it said was less than 1 percent of the $13 billion in aid it has disbursed in 145 countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/world/africa/05briefs-HEALTHFUNDAD_BRF.html
William Brieger
http://www.malariafreefuture.org/blog/
Senior Malaria Specialist, JHPIEGO -
http://www.jhpiego.org/whatwedo/malaria.htm
Professor, Health Systems Program, Department of International Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=90;
malaria updates at: http://twitter.com/bbbrieger
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