Global Fund M&E System Requirements and Budgeting

The Global Fund requires a functional routine reporting system with reasonable coverage to be in place to report programme performance accurately and in a timely manner. The relevant HIV, TB, malaria and RSSH indicators should be aligned with international definitions and should be coded in the HMIS. The M&E system also needs to have a data-assurance mechanism in place to regularly verify data.

Sufficient grant funds should be dedicated to strengthening M&E systems in the country. The Global Fund recommends that grants allocate 5–10 percent to M&E, which includes strengthening national data collection and reporting systems (including routine HMIS, analytical capacity and reviews, population-based and risk group surveys, and birth and death statistics).

The M&E activities must be included in the funding request under the module ‘RSSH - Monitoring and Evaluation Systems’. All M&E activities should be included under this module, whether disease-specific or cross-cutting. All M&E-related activities under this module will be considered as HSS, irrespective of the disease grant for which this module is included. Only those supervision-related activities that are specifically for data collection, reporting and/or data validation should be included under this module. Costs related to the supervision of other programme aspects should be included under the module ‘RSSH/PP: Human Resources for Health (HRH) and Quality of Care’. For more guidance on M&E budgeting, see the Global Fund Modular Framework Handbook - RSSH module.

The RSSH - Monitoring and Evaluation Systems module has 9 standard intervention packages that covers the whole universe of activities to strengthen Health Information Systems and M&E. The table below provides an overview of the M&E module of the Global Fund’s Modular Framework (May 2023). Specific examples and detailed guidance can be found in the Modular Framework.

Overview of intervention packages in the modules RSSH-Monitoring & Evaluation Systems

NEW in GC7 Funding Cycle

Budgets for M&E Technical Assistance provided by the Global Fund centrally are considerably reduced in GC7. The Global Fund’s guidance is to include technical assistance requirements in the grant budgets.

Additional guidance to support this area of work are also available through resources listed below:

• Global Fund Information Note on Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) – Annex 4 Essential M&E investments