Global Fund Grants Vs Numbers on Treatment
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Dear Colleagues
Thanks for the summary about Global Fund disbursement... sadly
information like this is not a "click away" as it should be, but
takes quite a lot of effort. And when you see the information
you are shocked. Transparency and accountability in the year
2005 should be very, very easy. The fact that it is not is wor-
risome. Either the leadership does not know enough to do it
right which is bad, or the leadership has good reason for not
wanting to do it right... which is even worse.
The Transparency and Accountability Network (Tr-Ac-Net) wants to
see management information in the public domain and a "click
away". The technology to do this is commonplace and we (Tr-Ac-
Net) will do it unless there is someone with better resources
and ability than we have... in which case we are pleased to co-
operate.
We want management information that shows the fund flows and
shows what activities have been funded and what results have
been achieved. We want an ability to put feedback on the record,
so that good things can be identified as well as those that just
are a waste of good money.
Inter alia, we are planning to use a "standard cost" methodology
that enables "free services" to be valued and given the credit
that they deserve. Why does an expert consultant from Washington
get credited with $10,000 a month of cost for AIDS in Africa,
and Grandmas in Africa looking after the community orphans get
credited with ZERO? Cost is not value. The expert consumes
$10,000 and delivers something that we already have (many times
over) that is practically useless, and Grandma consumes zero re-
sources and delivers care that is hugely valuable. The Tr-Ac Da-
tabase analysis system will take this sort of issue into ac-
count.
And we plan to do our analysis from the community upwards... be-
cause what works in the community is what matters... and that is
complex... but it is also very easy to measure - one community
at a time. Again, not too difficult in a modern database analy-
sis environment.
If anyone has ideas about this... please get in touch. We have a
lot of this coming together, but it is not too late to make it
better.
Sincerely
Peter Burgess
Transparency and Accountability - a global not for profit Net-
work
mailto:tracnet@gmail.com