The document outlines the Global Fund's timeline and process for implementing its human rights strategy between 2013-2014. It discusses establishing focal points for human rights, conducting staff training, reviewing programs, and developing guidance. It identifies two broad areas of potential human rights risk - environmental factors beyond direct control and programmatic risks that can be managed through relationships with partners. It also discusses assessing and managing these risks through interventions like legal literacy programs and establishing minimum human rights standards.

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Human rights risk
Timeline
February 2014

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Global Fund Strategy
The Global Fund Strategy, Investing for Impact 2012-2016,
commits to protecting and promoting human rights by:
– Integrating human rights considerations throughout the
grant cycle,
– Ensuring the Global Fund does not support programs that
infringe human rights, and
– Increasing investment in programs that address human
rights barriers to accessing health services.
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July 2013-December 2014
Transparency, accountability, participation
- Timeline and process posted online
- Staff and Human Rights Reference Group work together
- Biweekly Secretariat brown-bag discussions
Review and develop measures to manage risk of programs violating human
rights
Develop guidance and tools on
human rights for the New Funding
Model
Capacity-building
Communications
Phase 2 (2014)
Address risk of rights violations
Phase 1 (2013)
Investments to address barriers to
access
Human rights at the Global Fund: Timeline to implement the strategy

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Timeline in detail
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July
2013
Phase 1:
Investments
Focal points
training & manual
Brown-bag
series
Human rights in
staff induction
Country profiles
Human Rights
Info Note
TERG review
Portfolio review
Phase 2:
Human rights
risk
Research and
workshop
New standards &
procedures
Dec
2013
May
2014
Dec
2014
Completed Feb 2014
TBC
April 2014
May 2014
SIIC
TBD
Board
TBD
TBC
March 2014

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Human rights risk working groups
Internal risk group
• CRG
• OIG
• Legal
• GMD
• ORM
• Procurement
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External groups
• Privileges and Immunities
Convention
• Aid accountability at other donors
• Conflict areas/fragile states
• Prisons and closed settings
• Torture in health care settings
• Developing Country NGO
Delegation – community
consultations to begin soon
• Others… ?
CRG
Link between both groups

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Two broad areas of human rights risk:
Environmental
Beyond direct control of PRs and
SRs, addressed through
human rights interventions
• Criminalization of key populations
• Weak or no rule of law – courts do not function
independently, or do not work at all
• Gender-based violence
• Discrimination by employers, schools
• No harm reduction services
• NGOs not allowed to register, open bank
accounts
• LGBT, AIDS advocates jailed
• Policing practices
• Conflict, war
• Etc…
Programmatic
Managed through selection of PRs
and SRs, or through contractual
relationships with them
• Treatment that constitutes torture, is inhumane
or degrading
• Use of scientifically unsound practices
• Forced sterilization
• Coercive testing and treatment (without
informed consent)
• Chaining patients, locked rooms
• Violations of medical confidentiality
• Other issues in discussion with GF Human Rights
Reference Group
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Assess and manage environmental risk through grant design
2. Interventions from Human Rights Information Note
Use a rights-based approach to health service
design and delivery
• Consult with key populations, women
• Put the patient at the center, tailor services
to patient needs, integrate services with
local community
Package of interventions to remove legal
barriers to accessing health services
• Legal environment assessment and law
reform
• Legal literacy and legal aid
• Rights training for officials, health workers,
and police
• Community-based monitoring
• Policy advocacy and social accountability
Examples
• Zambia’s prisons have inmate TB peer
educators who assist with outreach,
screening and testing
• South Africa’s prisons have prisoner support
groups who monitor treatment access
• Myanmar networks of PLHIV and key
populations will monitor cases of medical
discrimination against PLHIV and TB patients,
and share them with a national law reform
working group of civil society and MPs
• Indonesian civil rights group LBH Masyarakat
trains people who inject drugs to be
community paralegals who advise their peers
• Legal aid services for MSM charged under
sodomy laws in Cameroon

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Develop policies and procedures to address programmatic rights risks
• Establish minimum standards for grant recipients
• Developing draft standards in consultation with Human Rights Reference Group, OIG,
Legal, etc.
• Office of the Inspector General is already accepting human rights complaints on its
whistle-blower hotline
• Questions raised in discussions about how to handle future allegations of abuses
• Who receives allegations? Who investigates?
• What falls within Global Fund mandate? What can the Secretariat and the OIG
investigate?
• What is the role of the CCM?
• What is role of technical partners, civil society?
• What is role of LFAs?
• What steps should be taken to investigate and manage allegations?
• What procedures will be followed if allegations are found to be true?
• What additional needs will there be for training and resourcing the Secretariat and the
OIG?