summarize and national health policy. Kapilashrami and McPake (2013) explore the dynamics between global and national level in their study on the Global Fund and the governance issues associated with its HIV programme in India. Using the concept of public and hidden transcripts, advanced by Health Policy and Planning, 2018, Vol. 33, No. 4 617 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/4/611/4868632 by guest on 27 February 2024 Scott (1992), the authors contrast the Global Fund's public and official descriptions of its organizing principles and operations, with concealed resistances and discourses of domestic actors that are not reflected in the dominant narrative of 'successful inclusiveness' on the global stage. The study utilized critical ethnography, with fieldwork taking place in five Indian states over a two-year period, and involving interviews, consultancy by the first author with a grant recipient, observation and site visits. The authors find that within the Global Fund's 'mixed form of governance' involving a range of Indian and transnational networks and organizations, the public and hidden transcripts differ on a number of fronts. Differences include the publically unacknowledged role of social, economic, political and network power in enabling certain organizations to more successfully secure grants; the reality of insufficient oversight