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The Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an independent Geneva-based financing organization that, since its founding in 2002, has committed $5.5 billion in grant funds for countries. In December 2004, New Perimeter was asked to assist the Global Fund in creating systems and processes to prevent and detect fraud, abuse, corruption, and mismanagement in the use of its grant funds. In 2005, the eight-person New Perimeter team researched and crafted a model for a new Office of Inspector General that was approved by the Global Fund Board in April. The team then developed a detailed implementation strategy and action plan that enabled the Global Fund, with the New Perimeter team's assistance, to rapidly recruit and hire its first Inspector General by the end of September 2005. New Perimeter also designed a grant crisis intervention plan that was utilized twice in 2005 and made recommendations for a whistleblower hotline program that the Global Fund and the new Office of Inspector General are now in the process of implementing.
Ellen Ginsberg, a Baltimore associate, was seconded to the Global Fund's Geneva office for three months to help fill the needs of an overworked Legal Department. New Perimeter is also currently assisting the new Global Fund Inspector General with audits and investigations as well as continuing to advise the Global Fund with a variety of issues relating to risk management.
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Click here to read associate Ellen Ginsberg's account of her four-month secondment to the Global Fund in Geneva.
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