Africa carries a disproportionate share of the global disease burden while facing a severe shortage of healthcare workers and persistent financing constraints that weaken primary and community health systems. As a result, many community health programmes remain fragmented, donor-dependent or confined to the pilot phase despite strong evidence of their impact and cost-effectiveness.
The Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led, Africa-focused health financing expert that enables governments to make the most of existing resources and mobilise new funding to build effective, scalable, and sustainable health systems. This is achieved through technical and advocacy support to enable governments strengthen enabling policies, develop viable investment cases, adopt tools and systems for data-driven decision making, and strengthen overall leadership and governance capabilities.
We partner with FAH as part of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s healthcare strategy, which is founded on the principle that governments should be the primary funders and implementers of community and primary health solutions at scale. Supporting actors such as FAH enhances the financial capacity of governments to adopt and replicate proven interventions on a larger scale. Our engagement with FAH is focused on three areas:
new CHWs recognised in policy across Kenya, Zambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic
community health leaders trained on Domestic Resource Mobilisation and Public Financial Management
national governments (including 2 through partners) and 6 sub-national governments engaged across Zambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Mali, Ethiopia and Kenya to increase and optimise community and primary health funding
Through this partnership, we are mobilising resources at scale and supporting countries in moving away from aid dependency towards resilient, government-led systems
Learn more about how Financing Alliance for Health works in the field
