SAP will invest $4 million to the Global Fund over a period of four years. Global Fund is an international financing organization started in 2002 to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
SAP technology is helping the organization understand how its financial investments are being used for disease prevention and treatment.
“SAP is all about helping organisations simplify complexity so they can do anything – and it doesn’t get more complicated than fighting persistent and deadly diseases around the world,” says Pfungwa Serima, CEO, SAP Africa. “By providing our technology innovation and leadership, we can help the Global Fund extend their reach and effectiveness. This partnership shows how technology can revolutionise the healthcare industry and save lives.”
The Global Fund acts essentially as a global public-private partnership that funds local organisations across 140 countries engaged in the fight against these three preventable and treatable diseases.
In addition to providing a charitable grant, SAP will offer analytics technology and services, the Global Fund is now using grant management dashboards that provide greater visibility into programmatic, financial and management performance indicators, one of the organisation’s biggest challenges.
Country coordinators for the Global Fund determine which organisations will be granted aid and set goals for their geographic area. The dashboard allows managers to see at a glance how much money has been disbursed. They can then drill down to see which groups received money and examine more closely how much recipients have received versus how much has been spent.
The dashboards also allow managers to review the financial data against critical targets like maintaining an adequate stock of particular drugs and other supplies; or how effectively they are using antiretroviral therapy (ART) to reduce the viral load of HIV positive patients.
The pilot phase for testing the dashboards began in February 2014. They are now live in six countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Dominican Republic, Laos, Uganda, and South Africa, and currently being evaluated for roll out in additional countries.
“We would like to thank SAP for their tremendous support and collaboration to fight AIDS, TB and malaria,” says Mark Dybul, executive director, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. “We’re very excited about launching the innovation coalition and welcome the meeting this week in Berlin to engage with top German companies and government officials. SAP has demonstrated again its global leadership by creating new innovative solutions to improve the health of people around the world.”
