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SUMMARY:How the Global Fund revolutionised the fight against AIDS\, TB and
  Malaria: What worked\, what didn’t\, and what next? - Humanitarian Cent
 re Annual Lecture - Bernard Rivers\, Founder of Aidspan
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CONTACT:Centre For Global Equality
DESCRIPTION:The Humanitarian Centre is pleased to announce that this year'
 s Annual Lecture will be given by Bernard Rivers\, founder of Aidspan\, th
 e Independent Observer of the Global Fund. He will be speaking on the topi
 c of: "How the Global Fund revolutionised the fight against AIDS\, TB and 
 Malaria: What worked\, what didn’t\, and what next?"\n\n_*PLEASE NOTE TH
 E REVISED TIMES COMPARED TO INITIAL PUBLICITY*_\n\n_Changes are in order t
 o allow those interested in attending both our Annual Lecture and the Inau
 gural Lecture of the Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Res
 earch\, earlier in the evening\, to do so. The WT-CCGHR event is a 5-10 mi
 nute walk from Emmanuel College._\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a net
 working reception with displays by the network's member organisations. Thi
 s is an excellent opportunity to find out more about the Humanitarian Cent
 re’s members and mingle with others with an interest in reducing global 
 poverty and inequality.\n\nPlease register to attend: http://annuallecture
 2013.eventbrite.com\n\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a networking rece
 ption. This is an excellent opportunity to find out more about the Humanit
 arian Centre’s member organisations and mingle with others with an inter
 est in reducing global poverty and inequality.\n\nTo register and for more
  information: http://annuallecture2013.eventbrite.com\n\n\n*UPDATED Timeta
 ble:*\n\n_(5:30-6:15pm Humanitarian Centre Members' Q&A with the speaker p
 ostponed to a later date\, to be finalised soon)_\n\n7-8:15 pm Annual lect
 ure\n\n8:15-9:00 pm Networking drinks reception\n\n*Talk abstract:*\n\nThe
  Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, Tuberculosis and Malaria\, which disburses $3
  billion a year\, may well be the world’s most innovative funding mechan
 ism. When Kofi Annan called for it to be established in 2002\, he proposed
 \, and others quickly agreed\, that the Fund’s voting board members shou
 ld include not just governments of developed and developing countries\, bu
 t also representatives of foundations\, the private sector\, civil society
  and people living with the three diseases. The Fund’s other distinctive
  features include that it is remarkably transparent\; that countries that 
 receive the Fund’s grants control the projects that the grants finance\;
  that poor performance by grant implementers can lead to reduced funding\;
  and that the Fund has a wholly independent Office of the Inspector Genera
 l that vigorously looks for and publishes evidence of misuse of funds. \n\
 n\n\n*About the speaker:*\n\nBernard Rivers is a UK-born economist who fou
 nded Aidspan (www.aidspan.org) in 2002\, ran it until 2012\, and now serve
 s as Aidspan’s first Senior Fellow. During 2013 he also serves as a visi
 ting fellow at Cambridge University\, with affiliations to Queens’ Colle
 ge\, the Institute of Public Health\, and the Centre of Development Studie
 s. His main project at Cambridge is a comparative analysis of the governan
 ce methods of the Global Fund and other multilateral grant-making institut
 ions. He is also a Consulting Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of In
 ternational Affairs (Chatham House).\n\nAidspan is an international non-go
 vernmental organisation (NGO) based in Kenya that serves as an independent
  watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS\, TB and Malaria. Aidspan is be
 st known for its newsletter Global Fund Observer\, which has 10\,000 subsc
 ribers. \n\nWe are grateful for the generous support of Emmanuel College i
 n hosting the lecture and reception\, and to Dr Richard Barnes\, the actin
 g master\, for chairing the event. 
LOCATION:Emmanuel College\, Queen’s Building
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