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 invest in FAH as part of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s healthcare strategy to focus on models that deploy impact-generating, cost-effective community healthcare solutions for underserved communities. Long-term sustainability is contingent on government having the capacity to adopt and replicate these models on a national scale. We provide comprehensive support across 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
Building on their ongoing institutional capacity support, LGT Venture Philanthropy continues to be a holistic partner at this critical inflection point of our growth and strategy.
Learn more about how Financing Alliance for Health works in the field
