Carolyn Long, co-author of the Global Fund study, is consultant researcher in the Gender, Violence and Rights Team at the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC, USA.

Together with Nata Duvvury and Helen Cornman, she authored an earlier study entitled ‘The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Strengthening Civil Society Participation and Gender Expertise.

Ms Long is the author of Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives: Taking Their Rightful Place (Earthscan, 2001), which analyses efforts of large public donors and recipient governments to incorporate participation of the poor in projects and policies over a ten-year period. She also wrote ‘The Advocate’s Guide to Promoting Gender Equality at the World Bank’ for Women’s Edge, a US NGO, and several other studies related to NGO advocacy. She has worked for over twenty years with NGOs, especially in strengthening the capacity to carry out policy advocacy.