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Global Fund – NGOs dig deeper
In 2007 the German government hosted a replenishment conference for the Global Fund in Berlin, where governments met to decide how much to contribute to the fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
To underline its role as host, Germany promised to annually give €200m to the fund between 2008 and 2010.
Right now, the German parliament (the Bundestag) is discussing the 2010 budget. We were therefore quite surprised to see that section 23 – the part of the budget that holds most of the funds going to development – foresees only €142m for the Global Fund. The development ministry was quick to clarify that the remaining €58m would come from funds that were not used throughout the year, and that those funds just wouldn’t show up in the budget proposal. But ONE and other NGOs are wondering: Why the hide-and-seek?
So ONE and 10 other NGOs, including Oxfam and Medicines Sans Frontiers, have published an open letter addressed to the parliamentarians who report to the budget committee, in which we call on the Bundestag to include the full funds that were promised in the 2010 budget.
We’ll keep you posted on further developments!
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