Key Performance Indicators

The corporate performance management framework of the Global Fund is critical to ensuring and demonstrating that the Global Fund is an effective financing instrument, contributing to the fight against the three diseases around the world.

Objectives

The aim of the corporate performance management framework of the Global Fund is to support the continuous improvement of the organization’s performance and thus to contribute to the Global Fund’s mission of fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria around the world.

• Measure corporate performance: from operational, grant, system effects to impact as an evidence base to identify strengths and weaknesses, and ensure continued funding is based on performance.
• Manage corporate performance: by providing management with continuous feedback in order to develop actions to identify issues and improve performance

Framework Overview

The Global Fund’s corporate performance management framework is a pyramid, building from an assessment of the core functions of the Global Fund Secretariat at the base, through evaluation of grant performance and the effectiveness of Global Fund financing, to measuring the impact achieved on the three epidemics.

For each of the four dimensions, Key Performance Indicators with baselines and targets have been identified:
 

Impact – Key performance indicators for impact are intended to measure the success of the Global Fund, its partners and countries in attaining “financing a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development Goals.” Beginning in 2009, the impact indicators demonstrate progress towards the health MDGs 4 and 6 specifically at the country, as well as at the global level. Definition and measurement of sub-indicators for each disease are agreed with technical partners.

Effectiveness – Key performance indicators for effectiveness are intended to measure whether Global Fund aid is effective in achieving development results, strengthening health systems and community systems as well as in promoting gender equity and value for money in supported country programs. Definition and measurement of sub-indicators for each program dimension is agreed with international and donor partners.

Grant Performance – Key performance indicators within this area are designed to measure:

• the performance of the Global Fund’s portfolio of grants against country-owned targets, in accordance with the principles of performance-based funding;
• the programmatic achievements of Global Fund-supported programs, particularly the delivery of key services including antiretroviral treatment for HIV, TB control strategy (DOTS), insecticide-treated bed nets distributed to protect families from malaria and the prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.

Operational Performance - Key performance indicators for operational performance measure the core functions of the Global Fund and its Secretariat. These are sub-divided into three categories:

• Portfolio management aimed to measure:
  • financing efficiency, in terms of speed of grant signing and speed of disbursement and volume of financing;
  • performance management of grants, in terms of performance-based funding, accountability and transparency.
   
• Administrative effectiveness aimed to measure:
  • the Secretariat’s operating expenditures;
  • staff diversity, in terms of gender, ethnicity and affected communities.
   
• Resource mobilization aimed to measure the success of the Global Fund in raising large amounts of money, including from the private sector.

Benefits

The benefits of the KPI Framework include the following:

1. it differentiates the corporate performance of the Global Fund and the performance of the Secretariat’s internal operations;

2. KPIs are grouped into distinct areas of performance (i.e. resource mobilization, portfolio management, grant performance, etc.);

3. the framework is stable and comprehensive, thereby facilitating measurement over time;

4. the reporting frequencies are aligned with the availability of data and existing reporting systems (both within the Global Fund and at the country level);

5. the framework facilitates the assignment of responsibilities to different teams within the Secretariat of the Global Fund.

The content of the Global Fund’s KPI Framework is revised on a regular basis by the Policy and Strategy Committee of the Global Fund Board to ensure it is aligned with corporate priorities.