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Winner: Malaria
REGION: GLOBAL
INDUSTRY TYPE: ENERGY
WEBSITE: www.exxonmobil.com/community
In 2000, Exxon Mobil Corporation launched its Africa Health Initiative to further the Abuja targets of the
Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Since then, the company has committed $50 million to programs focusing on malaria research, community disease control, and community advocacy.
Goals
To stimulate business engagement on malaria, help reform the global malaria architecture and response, advocate for increased and more effective global funding for malaria, raise the profile of malaria among U.S. civil society, and advocate for "pay-for-performance" malaria management systems.
Program Scope
ExxonMobil’s advocacy work reaches populations worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa. The company’s many partners—from large donor agencies to small NGOs—allow for deeper impact both at the advocacy level and on the ground.
Outcomes
- In the seven-year span of ExxonMobil’s Africa Health Initiative, annual global funding for malaria control has increased approximately 20-fold from $50 million in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2007.
- Private sector mobilization on malaria has resulted in improved commodity supply chain management, scaled up interventions, standardized monitoring and evaluation systems, and the development of innovative financing mechanisms for anti-malarial medicines.
- The World Bank’s “Global Malaria Scorecard” is now being used by major donors and program implementers across Africa.
Exxon Mobil Corporation is the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company; working in nearly 200 countries and territories around the world. The company employs more than 80,000 people, of which over 60 percent are located outside the United States.
THE WINNING PROGRAM
ExxonMobil stands apart due to its extraordinary ability to catalyze private sector action on malaria. By leveraging funding and forging multi-sector partnerships that bring international malaria programs to scale, ExxonMobil demonstrates its steadfast commitment to tackling this disease.
With extensive operations across Africa, ExxonMobil has felt the devastating impact of malaria first-hand through its workforce and communities. Since 2000, the company’s Africa Health Initiative has embodied outstanding private sector leadership in advocacy, research and development, and disease control projects in the field, mobilizing others to action. In 2006-07, ExxonMobil leveraged its $4.7 million investment in malaria initiatives to yield $115 million in total funds for malaria.
Multi-sector partnerships have been central to ExxonMobil’s strategy for maximizing impact. When the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) set out to reform its operations and build capacity, ExxonMobil responded by raising $3.5 million from 13 RBM partners including seven private sector donors to support the effort. In Angola, ExxonMobil teamed up with the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) to channel and leverage more than $7 million to support the country’s national malaria control program.
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
Engaging the Public-at-Large in Fundraising Efforts
ExxonMobil was one of four corporate sponsors of the 2007 "Idol Gives Back" telecasts on Fox cable network, which attracted an estimated 27 million viewers. The company’s $3 million contribution helped the show raise $75 million from other corporate partners and the viewing public.
Standardized “Scorecards” to Track Program Results
ExxonMobil has teamed up with Voices/Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs and the World Bank to develop a "Global Malaria Scorecard" for use by RBM partners to track data such as the percentage of children sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets. The scorecard provides an invaluable tool to show the correlation between resources spent and results achieved.
BROADLY APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES
Public Disclosure of Results Demonstrates Value
By building the human resource capacity for monitoring and evaluation in the World Bank’s 16 African target countries, ExxonMobil has helped demonstrate the return-on-investment value for international donors.
Co-investment Helps Attract New Donors
ExxonMobil has made great strides in improving the quality and quantity of malaria grant proposals. ExxonMobil was one of two companies to respond to the Global Fund’s challenge to help improve the unacceptably low rate of malaria grant applications from Africa. With ExxonMobil’s help, grant application success rates increased from 28 percent in Round Six to 62 percent in Round Seven.