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This chapter offers an ethnographic account of the bureaucratic field in Pakistan’s HIV/AIDS response stipulated by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with its elaborate reporting mechanisms and participatory governance model. Exploring the capacity assessment that determined the inclusion or exclusion of project partners, it draws attention to how political actions were articulated through the idiom of impartial technical procedures. Although the stated objective for the Global Fund’s governance model is broad-based participation, one NGO emerged as a key player. In accounting for these processes, this chapter argues that the boundaries of state and society are not only blurred but also employed to political ends.
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Qureshi, A. (2018). Participating in the Global Fund. In: AIDS in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9_6
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