The Global Financing Facility in Uganda – A Brief Summary – 2020 Update
The COVID-19 pandemic has redirected the world’s attention to the importance of strong public health systems. Uganda, one of the Global Financing Facility’s (GFF) country cases, was also impacted by the virus outbreak. This new factsheet – a second joint publication in the series with our partner CEHURD – provides an overview of updated information about the GFF in Uganda (since the first publication) and of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, COVID
Tanzania GFF CSOs Accountability Scorecard
The Tanzania GFF CSOs Accountability scorecard is designed to track Global Financing Facility (GFF) goals and principles relating to improving the health and well-being of women, children and adolescent, as well as ensuring inclusivity and transparency is embodied in in-country operationalization of the GFF mechanism.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
The Civil Society GFF Resource and Engagement Hub: Progress Report
This report outlines the Hub’s overall strategy and grant-making for its first year, spanning November 2018 through March 2020. The report outlines the focus of the Hub’s work: the ongoing efforts to bolster civil society health coalitions, which are proving essential to coordinate civil society engagement in the GFF and emergency response. In the first […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
The GFF at Five: Time for a Change?
The Global Financing Facility (GFF) was initiated in 2015 to contribute to filling the existing financing gap to implement the United Nations’ “Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)”, with the objectives of ending preventable deaths and achieving a better quality of life for women, children, and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is time to take stock of how the GFF has been operating at global and country level, how it has been governed and whether it has achieved its objectives.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Health Financing
Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks
‘Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks’ is a collection of stories about influencing networks working in a variety of thematic fields. It narrates the experiences of nine networks that work on issues such as land rights, the abolition of nuclear arms, animal rights and having more women in the police force, to name but […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights
Civil Society Engagement in the Global Financing Facility: Analysis and Recommendations ADDENDUM
This addendum is the result of an additional rapid analysis conducted in October and November 2016, through key informant interviews with 13 national civil society stakeholders in a selection of “frontrunner and second wave” GFF countries and additional inputs gathered through a meeting of civil society representatives engaged in the GFF, which took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 1, 2016.
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
Comparative Analysis of Selected GFF-related Investments to Enhance Civil Society Advocacy
The Public Health Program of Open Society Foundations (OSF) commissioned a comparative analysis of the Global Financing Facility (GFF)-related investments in select countries around the world with the aim of enhancing and informing civil society advocacy on health financing and governance. The study, implemented by E&K Consulting Firm, analyzed a cross-section of GFF participating countries […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society, Investment
Civil Society Engagement in Côte d’Ivoire’s GFF Process
The GFF partnership is intended to be implemented through an inclusive, participatory, and transparent government-led process. This report demonstrates how in Côte d’Ivoire, civil society’s well-organized priorities contributed to the National Dialogue on Health Financing in 2018 and fed into the country’s Investment Case. Civil society’s inputs are carried through in the GFF-funded International Development […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
Zimbabwe: CSO GFF Platform-building and Action-planning Meeting Report
Meeting report from the Zimbabwe CSO GFF Platform-building and Action-planning meeting held in February 2020..
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society
How to Guide GFF Country Spotlight
‘How To’ Guide is a step-by-step tool to support country CSOs and CSO platforms to conduct GFF investment case analysis. The guide is a multi-step process to conduct content analysis and develop advocacy messages to improve CSO engagement, accountability, and transparency at country-level. This ‘How To’ Guide is designed and produced by the Africa Health […]
Type: Resources
Category: Civil Society