PREDICTING FRAUDULENT GRANTS FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST NGO

CASE STUDY

A CASE STUDY ON
DATA SCIENCE &
ADVANCED ANALYTICS

The world’s largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs wanted to develop a systematic risk-based approach to proactively anticipate and identify the risk of new and already issued grants using data and analytics.

The main objective was to move from the current reactive mode of investigations from the internal investigation team and whistle-blowers to a proactive analysis.

A CASE STUDY ON
DATA SCIENCE &
ADVANCED ANALYTICS

The world’s largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs wanted to develop a systematic risk-based approach to proactively anticipate and identify the risk of new and already issued grants using data and analytics.

The main objective was to move from the current reactive mode of investigations from the internal investigation team and whistle-blowers to a proactive analysis.

The client is the largest non-profit organization with a movement to defeat HIV, TB, and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all.

The client raises and invests US$4 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenge the injustice which fuels them, and strengthens health systems in more than 100 of the hardest hit countries.

ABOUT CUSTOMER

The client is the largest non-profit organization with a movement to defeat HIV, TB, and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all.
The client raises and invests US$4 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenge the injustice which fuels them, and strengthens health systems in more than 100 of the hardest hit countries.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Our client sees a wide variety of fraud, and suspicious grants are always finding new loopholes to bypass the specific measures it put in place to combat such fraudulent instances. The client was having a hard time finding fraud patterns and preventing them.

Tackling these different kinds of fraud was a never-ending game of cat-and-mouse. Our client used to create rules or machine learning models for each specific type of fraud. But this was problematic on different levels

The current system only allows to identify and block a grant after the fraud is committed and detected. By then, the money is already disbursed.
Fraudsters could quickly spot how our client detected fraud and move on and find a new loophole to exploit.
Data issues because of data silos and data overload lead to an incomplete view of risk exposures, preventing the visibility of patterns and behaviors needed for prediction.
False positives required costly manual investigations, negatively impacting ROI through loss payouts and damaging the public image.

To overcome these challenges, the client wanted a data transformation company that builds, operates & manages massive data sources with real-time advanced data analytics capabilities to predict anomalies in grant data at any time to make informed decisions.