GAC is a committee of senior management at the Global Fund and technical and bilateral partners, and its key task is to review grant-making documents, including the grant budget, Performance Framework, and Health Product Management Template and recommend the grant for approval to the Global Fund Board. Since GAC normally reviews the draft Grant Agreement for compliance with recommendations made by the Technical Review Panel (which, in turn, evaluates the country’s funding request (formerly called the ‘concept note’), negotiations must be substantially completed and grant documents reviewed by the UNDP Global Fund Partnership and Health Systems Team (GFPHST) for operational and programmatic issues and by the UNDP Office of Legal Services (OLS) for legal issues , before being submitted to GAC.

Based on GAC’s recommendations, the grant documents are submitted to the Global Fund Board for final approval. Once approved, the grant can be finalized for signature. At this stage, some changes to the grant documents are still possible, including removal of conditions that have been met and discreet revisions to the performance framework (PF) and budget.