This brief presents findings from the Global Fund Prospective Country Evaluation (PCE) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) assessing the role and function of partnerships in the 2017 Global Fund application process. The PCE is an independent evaluation of the Global Fund commissioned by the Global Fund's Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG). The PCE is designed to evaluate how Global Fund policies and processes play out in country and provide high quality, actionable, timely information to national program implementers and Global Fund policymakers.