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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

Softscape Helps the Global Fund Enhance Delivery of Health Programs Worldwide

Innovative HR Solution Allows the Global Fund to Encourage, Recognise, and Reward Staff Performance More Effectively

Softscape announced that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria selected Softscapeís people management platform to enhance its employee performance and development processes while preparing for future growth worldwide.

With active programs in 136 countries, the Global Fund is a unique global public/private partnership dedicated to dramatically increasing resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria and directing those resources to areas of greatest need. With approved grants of US$10.1 billion, the Global Fund already provides more than 20 percent of international funding to fight AIDS, as well as two-thirds of international funding to fight malaria and tuberculosis. Because the Global Fund's ability to support the expansion of proven interventions will depend entirely on its ability to raise additional funding in the future, it relies greatly on its skilled team of financiers.

ìOur staffís dedication and determination are key to the growth of the Global Fund, so recognition and encouragement need to be ongoing rather than once a year via a standard performance review,î said Anne Duke, human resources manager at the Global Fund. ìSoftscape was selected through an open, competitive process. Its people management solution gives us the flexibility we need to incent and reward our hard working staff around performance initiatives throughout the year.î

The Global Fund employs 350 individuals, all of them at its office in Geneva, Switzerland. As part of its long-term integrated human resources vision, the Global Fund will deploy Softscapeís web-based performance management solution as the first step to managing talent in a more timely, strategic manner. Not only will the new solution eliminate the long and tedious administration of the previous paper-based solution, but it will also give management a top-down view of the organisation. Softscape will make it easier for the executive team to align individual performance goals with the organisationís objectives.

ìThe Global Fund has implemented a performance-driven culture across its entire organisation and holds its own staff to the same high standards of performance it requires of the organisations it funds,î said Dave Watkins, chief executive officer, Softscape. ìChoosing Softscapeís integrated human capital management platform demonstrates how much forethought the Global Fund has put into its human resources vision. As the fund grows, so too will its need for strategic human capital processes and technology that align people management and development initiatives with positive financial outcomes.î