Family Planning and The Global Financing Facility: Current Evidence and a Learning Agenda

To understand the current role of the GFF and inform its next steps to best fulfill this mandate, this note takes stock of our collective knowledge on inclusion of contraception in HBPs; incorporation of FP in country RMNCAH-N investment cases and corresponding World Bank projects; and GFF influence over government and donor resource allocation for cost-effective FP services. It concludes with a research agenda to guide future policy.

Type: Resources

Category: Family Planning & Contraception, Health Financing

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Assessment of the Status and Effectiveness of National Multistakeholder Country Platforms Used to Implement the Global Financing Facility

This assessment provides a detailed analysis of the existence and status of the Global Financing Facility multistakeholder country platforms in terms of their effectiveness and functionality in providing strategic coordination of stakeholders and funding sources for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition country investment cases.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Comparative Analysis of the GFF: Enhancing inclusivity, transparency and accountability

An in-depth comparative analysis of the Global Financing Facilities across seven participating countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda.

Type: Resources

Category: Civil Society, Domestic Resource Mobilization, Health Financing

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Abidjan GFF Civil Society Workshop Report

On 19-20 November, 80 representatives from civil society (CS) organizations including youth led organizations engaged in the GFF process in 34 of the 36 GFF countries and at regional and global levels, participated in the fifth annual GFF civil society workshop. This workshop, which happens every year ahead of the November Investors Group (IG) meeting […]

Type: Resources

Category: Civil Society

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Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) & GFF Performance Scorecard: Nigeria

This bi-annual scorecard supports in-country civil society organizations, relevant stakeholders and interested members of the National Steering Committee of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) to regularly
monitor the performance of the BHCPF and GFF in Nigeria.

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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Tracking Progress of Nutrition in the Global Financing Facility

Action Against Hunger analyzes in detail the development of the investment case of Burkina Faso, a GFF country, through the lens of a nutrition-focused civil society organization, along with a broader focus on hunger initiatives in the GFF.

Type: Resources

Category: Nutrition

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