Visualising the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Global Fund has invested over US$65 billion since 2002 in the fight against three of the world’s deadliest diseases. The Data Explorer is the Fund’s primary public transparency platform — a web application that visualises pledge and contribution data from donors, grant financial data across all active and historical grants, and programmatic results at global, regional and country levels.

It serves a diverse audience: from Board members and donor governments tracking replenishment commitments, to researchers analysing disease-specific funding flows, to country teams monitoring grant performance and results against targets. We built it to tell the story of where investments come from, where they land, and what impact they deliver — across every country in the Global Fund portfolio.

Prior to the Data Explorer, The Global Fund’s vast trove of financial and programmatic data was siloed across different internal systems, static PDF reports, and legacy web portals. For external stakeholders—whether they were journalists in Geneva or health ministers in Sub-Saharan Africa—piecing together a complete picture of an investment required downloading multiple datasets and attempting to reconcile them manually.

The challenge wasn’t a lack of data; it was a lack of a coherent narrative thread. The Fund needed a unified digital product that could seamlessly connect the upstream promises of donor countries (pledges) with the downstream realities of program execution (grants) and ultimate human impact (results), all while remaining performant and accessible on varying internet connections globally.