This report is based on a meeting held 5 December 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The gathering, a “Strategy Meeting on a Global Campaign for a Currency Transaction Levy for Health”, was organised and hosted by a locally based non-governmental organization (NGO), International Civil Society Support (ICSS), and build on an initial meeting held in Washington DC in the summer of 2009.
As the meeting’s title implies, it aimed to broaden and deepen civil society engagement in a campaign for the implementation of a currency transaction levy (CTL), a particularly promising innovative financing mechanism that could raise billions of dollars for global health needs.
This report is based on a meeting held 3-4 December 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The gathering, a “Strategy Meeting on Resource Mobilization for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”, was co-organised by a locally based non-governmental organization (NGO), International Civil Society Support (ICSS), and the Global Fund.
The meeting was timed to coincide with the beginning of the Global Fund’s 2010 resource mobilization and replenishment process.
This report is based on a meeting held on 13 and 14 July 2009 in Washington, DC. Organized and hosted jointly by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA), International Civil Society Support (ICSS) and RESULTS, the meeting aimed to develop strategies to increase support for, and the ultimate implementation of, a currency transaction levy (CTL) whose revenues would be used to expand and improve global health. The overall goal was to inaugurate a new civil society-led campaign for a CTL for health.
