Health

Making better use of finance is critical if we are to meet the world’s health challenges and achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Through partnerships, we help to unlock capital for health outcomes from large DFIs, smaller impact investors, governments and foundations.

We focus on ensuring that services work at scale for marginalised populations, making effective use of public-private partnerships. We are as comfortable working through the intricacies of programme design for malaria interventions in specific regions of a country, as we are working at the global level to strengthen the global health system architecture.    

Improving neonatal survival in Cameroon

In 2015, Social Finance was asked to review Grand Challenges Canada’s (GCC) grant portfolio to identify programmes with an evidence base and potential to scale in partnership with the MaRS Center for Social Entrepreneurship in Canada. 

Frontier tech in outcomes-based financing: Three ways donors can help

Outcomes-based finance shifts the focus away from what delivery partners have done, to the impact they have delivered. But measuring impact is difficult. 

The case for a global nutrition outcomes fund

This report, the first in our Outcomes-Based Approaches series, explores how the strong incentives to focus on results and adaptive delivery offered by an Outcomes Fund can achieve such effectiveness and efficiency.