ANNOUNCEMENT: GFF and WCAH* Small Grants Mechanism

This document announces the GFF Civil Society Coordinating Group’s plan to start a new small grants opportunity, aimed to improve outcomes for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health (WCAH), by supporting better-coordinated civil society efforts to engage in national processes and programs, with particular focus on the GFF.

Type: Resources

Category: Adolescent Health, Civil Society, Health Financing, Maternal and Child Health

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The Global Financing Facility: An Opportunity to Get it Right

This issue brief for policymakers outlines the potential and reforms proposed by Save The Children that could make the GFF truly drive increased health investment in health and nutrition from both external and domestic finance.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing

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The GFF’s Contribution To Domestic Resource Mobilization For Health And Nutrition

Public spending for health is central to sustaining progress towards universal health coverage. How does the GFF support governments in mobilizing domestic resources for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition? Efforts to strengthen domestic resource mobilization are at the core of the GFF approach. This Fact Sheet delves into domestic resource mobilization […]

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing

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Taking Stock: International Planned Parenthood Federation Recommendations on the Global Financing Facility

The International Planned Parenthood Federation succinctly makes recommendations to the GFF regarding funding and civil society participation.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment, Private Sector

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The GFF Investment Case in Priority Countries: Why, What, How and Beyond

This presentation takes a in-depth look at Investment Cases in the GFF, explaining how they are created, what they consist of, and how they function. It also presents basic data on Investment Cases in some GFF Countries as examples.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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Complementary Financing: Third Investors Group Meeting

This note is an introduction to agenda item GFF/IG3/4, “GFF Financing for RMNCAH: complementary financing.” This item is for discussion only, with an emphasis on Investors Group members discussing the information presented rather than sharing their own experiences on complementary financing.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing

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GFF Updates CSO Meeting

This slideshow outlines the state of Investment Cases as of June 2016 regarding eleven GFF countries- Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, and Bangladesh.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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Results Measurement: Third Investors Group Meeting

This paper presents the GFF’s approach to providing guidance to countries on results measurement. The proposed approach is based on the recently-released “Indicator and Monitoring Framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030)”, which was developed through a process led by the World Health Organization. The paper also outlines the GFF’s […]

Type: Resources

Category: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Family Planning & Contraception, Health Financing, Maternal and Child Health, Results-based Financing

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Family Planning 2020 GFF Meeting

This slideshow outlines the FP2020 Meeting on March 8th, 2016, which went in depth about the lending process through the World Bank for GFF countries. In addition, the structure of the World Bank is explained, and next steps for the project development process are displayed.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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Global Financing Facility: where will the funds come from?

This short piece was written from the perspective of GFF partners in the Investors Group, and is a response to a World Report by Ann Danaiya Usher on November 7th, 2015. It serves to clarify exactly how the GFF works in terms of funding and goals, which differentiates it from other health funds, refuting the […]

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Results-based Financing, UHC

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