How can we deliver grant programs efficiently?
Grants play a central role in our Government’s ability to provide targeted support to the economy, encourage research & innovation, create social impact, and provide emergency relief. To illustrate the scale of the Australian grant landscape, in FY21 the Federal Government paid out approximately $23.5 billion across 400 grant schemes, with many billions more distributed under State and Local Government initiatives.
A number of these grant programs have been subject to reviews by the Australian National Audit Office. These reviews have identified a number of pressing issues facing grant administrators today which we have analysed below:
The role of Deloitte Managed Solution in grant program execution
At Deloitte, we have found that successful grant programs are underpinned by a similar foundation of methodology, systems, process, and operational excellence, we also know that a “one size fits all” approach is rarely appropriate. As a result, we have come up with the following scalable approach to allow organisations to design, build and run effective grants programs:
Our recent work: Case Study
The Australian Government funded a grant program to support an industry significantly disrupted by COVID-19. The total value of the grant pool was in excess of $250 million.
Deloitte designed, built and implemented a process to assess more than 1,500 ‘high value’ applications using an online applicant portal, assessment methodology and toolkit, applicant information request and quality management framework.
Value delivered:
- A custom instance of the Deloitte platform was built within two weeks to act as an applicant portal, communication tool and workflow system
- Designed the assessment framework, methodology and tools used by the verification team
- Provided technical accounting and tax advice to overcome complex issues related to assessing the applicants’ financial position
- Mobilised, onboarded and trained a team of assessors in two weeks
- Verified all grant applications over a period of 8 weeks including applicant data upload, applicant communication, follow up and outcome reporting.
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Deloitte Managed Solutions works with public sector clients to design, build and run their most complex citizen operations. We bring technical expertise, technology and operational excellence to high-volume case-based eligibility assessment, remediation, redress, compensation, grants and application processing.
