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

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Report: Increasing GFF Impact on RMNCAH in Tanzania

Tanzania is one of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) front runner countries which is funded by World Bank IDA, GFF trust fund, USAID, Power on Nutrition, Development Partner and the Government of Tanzania. The fifth year of implementation was expected to end June 30th, 2020, but has been extended to June 30th, 2021. This analytical […]

Type: Resources

Category: Health Financing, Investment

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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

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Liberia Health CSOs Network COVID-19 Health Facility Readiness Scorecard

This scorecard produced by  the Liberia Health CSOs Network is designed to track the readiness of health facilities in 45 selected facilities across 5 counties in Liberia. It will be used primarily to identify readiness gaps at health facilities and advocate for increased investment in the readiness of the health systems to respond to the […]

Type: Resources

Category: COVID, Investment

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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