Partnership

Focal point contact for the Private Sector at the
GFF Secretariat 
Contact du Point focal pour le Secteur
Privé au Secrétariat du GFF:

Sneha Kanneganti

skanneganti@worldbank.org


RELATED DOCUMENTS | DOCUMENTS CONNEXES

GFF Investors Group Update on Private Sector | PDF | 1.1MB
Innovation-to-Scale: Call for Proposals for accelerated, high impact, and sustainable scale-up of innovations for saving mothers and newborns at birth | FR

PRIVATE SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS | FAITS MARQUANTS DU SECTEUR PRIVÉ

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PRESS RELEASE: The Global Financing Facility, Merck for Mothers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The UPS Foundation Launch Public-Private Partnership to Improve Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries EN | FR
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INNOVATIVE FINANCING INSTRUMENTS | INSTRUMENTS DE FINANCEMENT INNOVANTS

RESOURCES | RESSOURCES

Webinar: Private Sector Engagement during COVID-19
Course: Managing Market for Health 
Course Toolkit: Managed Markets for Health for Health Policy Practitioners
Video:Funding the Future Innovative models for a new era of health | UNGA 2018
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The Role of the Private Sector in Improving the Performance of the Health System in the Democratic Republic of Congo | PDF | 2.8MB | EN | FR
Uganda Private Sector Assessment in Health | PDF | 8.80MB
Uganda Private Sector Assessment in Health (RMNCAH-N Excerpt) | PDF | 3MB
Ethiopia Health Private Sector Assessment | PDF | 3MB

Private sector

Unlocking the Power of the Private Sector to Transform Health Systems

The GFF works with partner countries to identify the most effective ways to strengthen health systems to deliver services for women, children and adolescents. For many GFF partner countries, the private sector offers the reach, resources and ingenuity needed to accelerate progress to improve health outcomes. In addition to delivering services and financing health initiatives, the private sector also participates in supply chain logistics, manufacturing of medical equipment and commodities, telecommunication systems, and others.

As a key part of the GFF model since its inception, the private sector is represented on the GFF Investors Group and actively participates in country platforms. The GFF also leverages technical partnerships with private global partners such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck for Mothers, Laerdal Global Health and the Rockefeller Foundation to support country-specific programs.

The GFF is facilitating greater public-private collaboration to build understanding, trust and the enabling environment which will enable the private sector to complement the public sector to scale up delivery of affordable, quality health services and commodities. For example:

Cameroon: Using Innovative Financing to Mobilize Private Sector Resources

The groundbreaking Development Impact Bond that sought to save the lives of at least 2,200 infants each year by expanding the use of skin-to-skin contact after birth is delivering results. Since 2019, three times as many infants (39%) received at least eight hours of skin-to-skin contact and 78 percent of newborns who received KMC reached an appropriate weight by their 40-week follow-up appointment.

Investing in Data to Inform Policy and Partnerships

The GFF focused significant financing and technical assistance to help countries such as Bangladesh, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Uganda to conduct assessments that inform policy reforms and partnership opportunities. For example, in Mozambique, market assessments focused on specific private sector investments, such as outsourcing last-mile distribution of the supply chain.

Partnerships with Global Actors to Scale up Innovations at Country Level

In 2019, the GFF joined Laerdal Global Health and the Government of Norway to launch a US$25 million “Innovation to Scale” challenge as part of its Innovations Partnership. This partnership has recently expanded with new commitments of US$5 million from Merck for Mothers and US$2.5 million from the Rockefeller Foundation to enable countries such as Mali, Myanmar, Rwanda and Tanzania to invest in scalable and sustainable innovations to transform primary healthcare systems for women, children and adolescents.

 

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