Nicht ausgeschöpfte Fördermittel und entgangene Zuschüsse durch mangelhafte Outcome-Daten

Definition

Australian family planning providers rely heavily on government and philanthropic grants to fund community education and outreach in sexual and reproductive health, as reflected by national alliances such as Family Planning Alliance Australia and their members’ outreach and education programs.[4][6][8] Government-funded outreach programs administered by entities like CheckUP explicitly aim to improve access and outcomes, with contracted providers expected to demonstrate tangible health improvements for priority populations to maintain funding.[3] Donor and government trends in global and local sexual and reproductive health (e.g. detailed metric frameworks like those used by the Adara Youth Community Centre, with 50+ pre‑identified metrics) show a shift towards output- and outcome-based accountability, including targets for people reached, STI/HIV screenings, contraceptive uptake, and engagement of specific groups.[1] When centres lack systematic tools to capture outreach outcomes (e.g. follow-up status, behaviour change, referrals completed), they often under-report achievements or cannot robustly attribute impact. In competitive grant rounds or renewal processes, this weakens value-for-money arguments and can lead to partial funding, no extension or failure to win new grants. For a typical outreach grant in sexual and reproductive health in Australia (often in the range of AUD 100,000–500,000 per year for local/regional projects), conservative assumptions suggest that poor evidence may reduce awarded amounts or success probability by at least 10–30%. This translates into foregone revenue of approximately AUD 50,000–250,000 per grant cycle for medium-sized family planning providers who fail to present strong outcome data compared with peers using sophisticated monitoring and evaluation systems.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Family-planning organisations in Australia 🇦🇺 forgo AUD 50,000–250,000 per grant cycle in potential funding because weak outreach-outcome tracking undermines their competitiveness and KPI achievement. Automating robust evidence collection for grant reporting and evaluation safeguards this revenue and supports program growth.

Affected Stakeholders

CEO/Executive Officer, Grants & Fundraising Manager, Program Director, Monitoring & Evaluation/Research Lead, Finance Manager

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