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Dimension: Global Funds & Partnerships

Global funds and partnerships

Pay against results.

A global fund pools money from many donors for one mission — vaccines, HIV, climate, education — and grants it to countries and implementers. It usually has a small secretariat and few or no country offices, so it relies on others to deliver and on evidence to decide the next payment.

A mission-specific endowment that pays on proof.

In one picture

The replenish, allocate, report loop

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  • MDBs
  • Multilateral
  • Global Funds
  • Governments
  • NGOs
  • Private
  • Active
  • Engaged
  • Open gap
  • Landscape

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How it works

Donors pledge.

Every few years, governments and foundations pledge · pledgeA donor's commitment of money at a replenishment conference. money at a Replenishment · ReplenishmentA periodic round in which donors refill a fund or a bank's concessional arm conference.

Who is who

  • HealthStatus: Landscape

    Pooled finance for diseases, vaccines and health systems

    Stratum 1

    • Global Fund (AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria)Status: Open gap

      Named in the strategy

    • Gavi (vaccines)Status: Open gap

      Named in the strategy

    • CEPI (epidemic vaccine development)Status: Landscape

      Health fund

    • Unitaid (health-product markets)Status: Landscape

      Health fund

    • GFF (women, children and adolescents)Status: Landscape

      Health fund

  • Climate and environmentStatus: Landscape

    Finance for cutting emissions, adapting and protecting nature

    Stratum 1

    • GCFStatus: Open gap

      Named in the strategy

    • GEFStatus: Open gap

      Named in the strategy

    • Adaptation FundStatus: Landscape

      Climate fund

    • CIFStatus: Landscape

      Climate fund

    • Fund for Responding to Loss and DamageStatus: Landscape

      Climate fund

  • Education and socialStatus: Landscape

    Finance for schooling, including in emergencies

    Stratum 1

    • GPEStatus: Open gap

      Named in the strategy

    • Education Cannot WaitStatus: Landscape

      Education fund

  • Food and agricultureStatus: Landscape

    Research and finance for food security

    Stratum 1

    • CGIARStatus: Landscape

      Food and agriculture

    • GAFSPStatus: Landscape

      Food and agriculture

  • Pooled and trust fundsStatus: Landscape

    Accounts that hold many donors' money under one administrator

    Stratum 1

    • UN MPTF OfficeStatus: Landscape

      Pooled fund administrator

  • Multi-stakeholder alliancesStatus: Landscape

    Alliances that coordinate and advocate more than they finance

    Stratum 1

    • Sanitation and Water for AllStatus: Landscape

      Multi-stakeholder alliance

    • Scaling Up NutritionStatus: Landscape

      Multi-stakeholder alliance

    • Global Partnership for Sustainable Development DataStatus: Landscape

      Multi-stakeholder alliance

Inside them

Decisions of consequence

DecisionWho keeps itRecords behind itMatching atlas cases
Approve a grant or funding proposalThe board, on technical panel adviceProposals, country strategies, budgetsMatching atlas cases
Accredit an implementing entityAccreditation panel and boardFiduciary, safeguard and capacity assessmentsMatching atlas cases
Release the next disbursementPortfolio managerProgress reports, verified indicators, audit reportsMatching atlas cases
Act on suspected misuse of fundsInspector generalFinancial records, investigation filesMatching atlas cases
Make the case for the next replenishmentSecretariat leadership and boardAggregated results evidence across all grantsMatching atlas cases

Sphere here

Role in the strategy

The results-based financing counterpart. These funds finance against evidence, and their grantees compile that evidence by hand once a year.

What Sphere offers

Sphere's cleanest single-product fit lives here: the verified impact ledger — programme results traced to source documents, signed and delivered to funders with every claim cited — alongside grant-report automation and climate and health programme evidence.

Why it matters beyond its size

It is the mechanism by which sustainability for the partner becomes measurable, and the reason a fund would co-finance replication once a first proof is verifiable.

Status today

First global fund reference deployment: Open gap.

  • First global fund reference deploymentStatus: Open gap

Verified impact ledger

Illustrative data

Evidence

12

global fund cases in the atlas. Small in the atlas, strategically important.

Sphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026Sphere · as of 2026-09as of 2026-09

Open the atlas, filtered to global funds

Lenses and words

Words you will hear

  • Replenishment · ReplenishmentA periodic round in which donors refill a fund or a bank's concessional arm
  • pledge · pledgeA donor's commitment of money at a replenishment conference.
  • allocation · allocationThe share of a fund's resources a board assigns to a country or theme.
  • Technical review panel · Technical review panelIndependent experts who assess proposals for a fund
  • Accredited entity · Accredited entityAn organisation approved to receive and manage a fund's money
  • Principal recipient · Principal recipientThe organisation that signs a grant and is accountable for it
  • Results-based financing · Results-based financingPayment released when agreed results are verified
  • Financial intermediary fund · Financial intermediary fundA pooled fund held in trust by an MDB for a global purpose
  • Trust fund · Trust fundDonor money held and administered by an organisation for a stated purpose
  • co-financing · co-financingA second funder paying alongside the first, often once a result is verifiable.
  • inspector general · inspector generalThe office that investigates suspected misuse of funds.

The four statuses

Status: ActiveSphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026Sphere · as of 2026-09
Live or contracted work named in the strategy
National programmes in Ecuador, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and Colombia; PADF; Renalogic; AMD and Oracle co-sell
Status: EngagedSphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026Sphere · as of 2026-09
Named in the strategy as engaged, no live deployment stated
Royal Thai Government; Central Group; Oracle Thailand; World Bank as a channel; NVIDIA and Intel
Status: Open gapSphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026Sphere · as of 2026-09
A reference Sphere is actively seeking
First MDB, UN agency and global fund reference deployments
Status: LandscapeSphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026Sphere · as of 2026-09
Shown to teach the ecosystem; no relationship implied
Every other named institution in the landscape

Sources on this page

  • S-01Sphere Corporate Strategy, September 2026, Sphereas of 2026-09

Naming an institution here describes the landscape. It does not imply a relationship with Sphere.

What Active, Engaged, Open gap and Landscape mean.