National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS

Headquartered in Mbabane, Swaziland, NERCHA – the National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS provides leadership in the coordination of the national response to HIV and AIDS. NERCHA channels funds received from the Government, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other multilateral partners. As a grant recipient (from the Swaziland Government, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, bilateral and multilateral and other funders), NERCHA has the responsibility to ensure that every dollar is used as intended namely: to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This responsibility comes with the need to provide detailed reports according to different criteria of the government, multi-lateral and bilateral partners. To learn more about NERCHA, visit the Website (right) or www.youngheroes.org.sz .

GFA B.I.S. Services

While the old accounting software at NERCHA could provide financial statements, there were challenges with producing real-time financial reports. Furthermore there were difficulties in adding analytical information to the transactions to enable automated comprehensive and analytical reporting. GFA B.I.S has been contracted by NERCHA for the implementation of Infor SunSystems covering the accounting, inventory and purchasing processes.

With Infor SunSystems and Infor Query & Analysis NERCHA is now able to record budgets, commitments and forecasts in one software and to add analysis values like programme/ budget code, disease, source of fund, expense category or contract code directly to each transactions. With this additional data entry even complex reporting requirements of all donors can be fulfilled. Existing donor formats in Excel can be filled with data from the database and provide insights into budget execution and forecasting figures. Furthermore even new requirements from donor’s can be fulfilled easily by creating new Excel based reports. In 2018 the system has been extended by an Workflow management module based on Processmaker. In 2019, In 2019, an update to the newest version 6.3 of SunSystems has been carried out. For more details please have a look at the case study .