Annual Reports
The annual report provides a comprehensive overview of the GFF portfolio and contribution of the GFF partnership to country-led outcomes. It highlights key data on the state of progress on women, children and adolescent health and offers concrete examples of how countries are building more resilient and equitable health systems.
2024–2025: Marking 10 Years of Meaningful Progress
The GFF's new annual report documents a decade of country-led progress toward ending preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents, even in the world's most challenging contexts — with a particular focus on the last year.
As of 2025 reporting, all 36 GFF partner countries had reduced maternal and child mortality while expanding access to family planning. After years lagging behind global averages, GFF partner countries now outpace them, reducing maternal mortality more than twice as fast as the global average and cutting under-five mortality more than 25 percent faster.
The pathway forward is clear: sustained country leadership, aligned financing and a continued focus on ensuring that every mother, every newborn, every child and every adolescent — regardless of where they are born — can survive and thrive.
Past Years
The 2023–2024 annual report tells a story of impact, partnership and innovation delivered through a country-led commitment to advancing women’s, children’s and adolescent health. The report highlights the partnership’s achievements in strengthening countries’ capabilities and capacities across the health system—while underscoring the urgency of scaling these advancements to protect the most vulnerable populations.
Marking the midpoint of the GFF's current five-year strategy, the 2022–2023 annual report presents a story of both progress and promise. While it is clear that persistent and chronic underinvestment in health in many of the world’s poorest countries and the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in some of the greatest inequities across the world, this report shows that when countries invest in and reform their health systems with a focus on reaching the most vulnerable populations, remarkable progress is possible.
This annual report provides a deeper look into the state of progress in health for women, children and adolescent in GFF partner countries and unpacks the impact of COVID-19 and other crises on countries and communities. It also looks at specific examples of how the GFF partnership has helped countries build more resilient and equitable primary health care systems to deliver better health and nutrition outcomes.
This annual report seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 on countries and communities. The report also details the rollout of the GFF strategy for 2021–2025 and provides concrete examples of how GFF is addressing persistent inequalities—further exacerbated by COVID-19 impacts—to strengthen health systems and support global health security.
The results highlighted in this annual report reflect a period prior to the pandemic and underscore the urgent need to protect the gains and double down on efforts to accelerate progress for women, children and adolescents.
Since its establishment in 2015, the GFF has expanded its support ninefold—from 4 to 36 countries. While results varied widely from country to country, the GFF’s country-led and partnership-driven approach has reaped dividends for the health of millions of poor and vulnerable women, children, and adolescents in several ways.
The 2017–2018 annual report shares results, learning and updates from four countries. For the first time, the report includes country profiles presenting aggregated performance data on GFF core indicators from the first 16 countries.
In celebration of GFF’s first year, the 2016–2017 annual report showcases examples from across the portfolio on how the GFF is adding value to the efforts of countries to improve the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents.
