Instructions from the Global Fund (GFATM) for Grant Consolidation
Grant consolidation is the combining of two or more existing Global Fund grants (or, a newly approved Global Fund proposal and one or more existing Global Fund grants) implemented by the same principal recipient (PR) for the same disease component, into a single consolidated grant agreement.
The administration of multiple grants by the same PR for the same disease can result in cumbersome and resource intensive reporting requirements. Grant consolidation may help to simplify and improve the efficiency of grant administration, for example, by reducing the number of reports required, and harmonizing monitoring and evaluation requirements. Grant consolidation may also simplify funding discussions by enabling countries to refer to Global Fund funding as a whole, rather than referring to different grants for the same disease.
During grant consolidation, the PR combines its budget, work plan, planned outcomes (i.e., the 'Performance Framework' for reporting on implementation over the proposal term), and other operational planning tools with the existing grant(s). Wherever possible, applicants are encouraged to select a start date for the consolidated grant that harmonizes both with national and existing grant (including other partner) reporting cycles. The date of grant signature for all consolidated grants should not take place more than one year after the consolidation.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- The Global Fund
- Contact:
- Your portfolio manager at GFATM or Ana Varela
Download:
Grant consolidation process overviews:
Presentation on Grant Consolidation
Update on Grant Consolidation
Operational Policy Note: Roll-Out of Grant Consolidation
Guidance for use in grant consolidation: Guidance Note for Principal Recipients for use in Grant Consolidation
Approved proposal consolidated with one or more existing grants:
Spreadsheet templates from the GFATM for Consolidation Assessment Report For use when an Approved Proposal is consolidated with one or more Existing Grants,
Grant consolidation - Global Fund Fact Sheet Series, 4 of 5 (March 1st, 2008),
Q&A focusing on GF round 8 and 9
Consolidation of existing grants:
Spreadsheet templates from the GFATM for Consolidation Assessment Report For use when consolidating Existing grants
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Combining of two or more existing Global Fund grants (or a newly approved Global Fund proposal and one or more existing Global Fund grants) implemented by the same Principal Recipient (PR) for the same disease component, into a single consolidated grant agreement
- Scope of interventions
- Grant consolidation is also possible where, for example, a country has a number of Global Fund grants for the same disease, and multiple PRs are implementing those grants
- Limitations
- More than one grant for the same disease with the same PR; clarity about the funding available under the earlier grant; at the time of the consolidation, at least twelve to eighteen months of remaining implementation for the existing grant(s); programmatic and/or geographic overlap between the grants
- Output
- A consolidated proposal managed as one grant instead of two or more. Grant consolidation may help to simplify and improve the efficiency of grant administration
- Time-frame
- The optional implementation of grant consolidation in 2008 requests applicants to identify a preferred start date for the new proposal. This new grant will cover the years where more than one grant was supposed to be implemented
- Potential users
- Principal recipients for more than one GFATM grant during the same application period
- Skills required
- Spreadsheet use
- Type of software
- Excel, Word and Adobe PDF
- User manual available
- Guidance in PDF
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- English
- Country applications
- The full list of GFATM granted countries is available from the GF website
- Last update and version
- November 2007