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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'>Warm greetings. We are inviting partners to discuss parts of a recent paper by Andrew Harmer and colleagues in the journal Health Policy and Planning. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'>The paper examines the impact of Global Fund financing on civil society organisations (CSOs) in three countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It raises a number of interesting issues, many of which apply to CSOs in other regions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'>Aidspan, in its new Discussion Page, has reproduce five extracts from this paper and raises interesting points for comment...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=877 valign=top style='width:526.2pt;border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #4F81BD 2.25pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#365F91'>JOIN THE DISCUSSION...INVITE OTHERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.aidspan.org/extract/have-global-fund-programmes-fostered-%E2%80%98enabling-environment%E2%80%99-cso-advocacy">Have Global Fund programmes fostered an ‘enabling environment’ for CSO advocacy?</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.aidspan.org/extract/effects-dependency-global-fund-financing">Effects of dependency on Global Fund financing</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:right'><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Click on the links above to go directly to the items listed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:right'><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="http://www.aidspan.org/page/discussion-page">Click this link to view the main discussion page</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:right'><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Always with thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Angela<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#17365D'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>Angela Kageni,</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'> Senior Programme Officer (</span><span style='color:#0F243E'><a href="mailto:angela.kageni@aidspan.org" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt'>angela.kageni@aidspan.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>Aidspan</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'> – an independent watchdog of the Global Fund, and publisher of <i>Global Fund Observer</i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>P.O. Box 66869-00800, Nairobi, Kenya</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>Office line: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>+254-(0)774-135984; +254(0)702-925958</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>Personal Cell: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'>+254-(0)722-622727</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#17365D'>Web: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.aidspan.org/" target="_blank">www.aidspan.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>