dr. albert heijn roundtables

In 2006 the Executive Director of ICSS Peter van Rooijen developed together with Aidspan the idea of setting up a small series of Roundtables at a location where people could talk freely about global issues that affect the performance of Global Fund grants but not necessarily fall within the Global Fund mandate.
Dr. Albert Heijn and his wife Monique Heijn kindly offered to fund and host two of these Roundtables.

The Round Tables are run by a Steering Committee that is independent of the Global Fund:
Dr. Jim Kim, USA (Chair)
Dr. Alex Coutinho, Uganda
Mrs. Mabel van Oranje, Netherlands
Dr. Steve Radelet, USA
Mr. Peter van Rooijen, Netherlands
Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Thailand
Dr. Ngaire Woods, New Zealand.
The Roundtable project is served by Aidspan as Secretariat, and Chris Collins as Co-ordinator.

The first Roundtable took place in January 2007, and focused on how to ensure that implementers of Global Fund grants have access to adequate and appropriate technical support, and on what changes this might require in inter-agency collaboration between the Global Fund, UNAIDS, WHO, World Bank, DFID, PEPFAR, the Gates Foundation and others.