SWAP Fund Management

Since 2018 SWAP has been engaged in fund management for several projects whereby donors recognize SWAP’s good reputation and zero tolerance to corruption. SWAP has been able to establish credible systems and internal controls and remained efficient with minimal bureaucracy. This has made SWAP the partner of choice for fund management. 

In September 2018, the National Foundation for Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc. (CDC Foundation) signed an Independent Contract Agreement with SWAP to manage funds on Field Testing of imaging device for child anthropometry. In collaboration with Kisumu County Department of Health, a trial in a CHAMPS Survey/surveillance site in Manyatta, Kisumu, to evaluate the Auto Anthro System in practice. The CDC/CDC Foundation project team trained teams of anthropometrics who collected data from 600 children (300 children aged 6 to 23 months and 300 children aged 24 to 59 months).

Kisumu County hosted the 3rd Kenya National Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Conference on 15th to 17th May 2019 themed “Revitalizing primary health care for sustainable universal health coverage. As member of the UHC Technical Working Group meeting, SWAP ‘s Technical Advisor was appointed Chair of the Conference and SWAP was approached by the Kisumu County Health Management Team led by the County Executive Committee member for Health to become fund manager. The conference was attended by over 800 participants who drew lessons from 4 Counties (Nyeri, Kisumu, Machakos and Isiolo) implementing the national government UHC pilot program. The funds were successfully managed and utilized.

In August 2019, SWAP signed a procurement and payment service with Emory University School of Medicine, Pediatrics Residency Program. SWAP managed the funds for data collection, translations services and interviews for a project titled “The Effects of Maternal Ionized Preventive Therapy in Pregnancy on Infant Outcomes.

In August 2020, SWAP became fund manager for a project titled “COVID-19 Testing ANC Risk Stratification Tool for Decentralized Care”. The purpose of this research is to test the feasibility of differentiated ANC provisions through primary clinics and home care innovations in mitigating the disruption of ANC services due to COVID-19 pandemic in Kisumu County. This one-year study was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In December 2020, SWAP signed TOR/MOU with KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast (KEMRI- CGMR,C) for the purpose of executing a population-based SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance project in Kisumu. This is a 4 months multisite study in Nairobi, Kisumu and Kilifi commissioned by Kenyan Ministry of Health and led from KEMRI-CGMR,C.

In December 2021 we became Fund Manager for PharmAccess Foundation for the hire of consultants and research assistants supporting the COVID Dx and digital health. The fund management is still ongoing in 2024.

In 2023 SWAP signed a sub award with Ilara Health Limited for; “Validating of artificial intelligence developed maternal, infant health insight and cognitive intelligence (MIHIC) scores for antenatal risk stratification in Kisumu County. SWAP will be fund manager for one year.

In 2023 SWAP signed a contract with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillfor a consultancy by Dr Dickens; Research on RCT to address unintended pregnancy rates in low resource settings. This will last until April 2024. Towards the last quarter of 2023 SWAP was appointed as fund manager for the international conference on sickle cell and hemophilia scheduled to take place in 2024.