A global consultation on social contracting: working toward sustainable responses to HIV, TB, and malaria through government financing of programmes implemented by civil society

Social contracting is a financing option by which governments finance programmes, interventions and other activities implemented by civil society actors. This option could help prevent reductions and disruptions in targeted services for key and vulnerable populations (in particular) and ideally contribute to more rapidly expanding effective HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria responses. This report presents the background, findings, and next steps that were the result of a 5-6 October 2017 consultation convened in New York by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) to discuss social contracting.