Financing Alliance for Health (FAH)

About Company

FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH OVERVIEW

The Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led, and Africa-focused entity that convenes governments, funders, philanthropy, private-sector, and communities to address systemic financing challenges to scaling primary and community health systems for delivery of integrated primary healthcare services through country, regional and global partnerships. 

As trusted strategic and technical advisors, FAH acts as a bridge between the world of health and finance through long-term partnering with the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance teams to develop different and changing financing sources. This approach will empower/ enable them to be the lead stewards in their local health systems to reach the scale and sustainability that is needed and ultimately achieve universal health coverage. 

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, FAH has successfully supported 22 governments at the national and sub-national levels, across 16 countries (Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mali, Ethiopia, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa, Central African Republic, Malawi, Senegal, Kenya, and Togo). 

FAH works with governments in their journey of designing, scaling, and financing of primary and community health programs, with a view to strengthening national and regional health systems through embedding teams, evidence generation, designing financing solutions, and advocacy. Our longer goal is to scale up and strengthen Primary and Community Health Systems to increase access and utilization of reproductive, maternal newborn, child & adolescent child services at primary facilities and community levels. We act as a bridge between the worlds of health and finance. 

Our work areas include:

• Country government support: Long-term onsite technical and financing support on primary and community health.

• Analytical toolkits: Develop and offer toolkits to support country costings, investment cases, and financing pathways.

• Financing products/ modalities: Working with donors & financing industry to design, develop, and deploy new/modified financial products. 

• Awareness and education: Develop investment cases, build thought leadership, and share capacity-building material.

AFRICA FRONTLINE FIRST INITIATIVE OVERVIEW 

The Africa Frontline First (AFF) Initiative is a collaborative initiative that supports the scaling and strengthening of integrated and sustainable community health delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Under the leadership of H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Financing Alliance for Health, Last Mile Health, Community Health Acceleration Partnership, and Community Health Impact Coalition are currently the key driving partners of AFF. Through unique partnerships between governments, donors, implementers, and technical allies, AFF will support ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in building high-functioning, resilient, country-led community health service delivery systems. These systems will include an expanded and institutionalised workforce of 200,000 community health workers across the 10 countries by 2030. AFF works cross three pillars:

1. Financing: Advocate, design and support implementation of sustainable funding mechanisms that enable transformed financing.

2. Political prioritisation: Cultivate regional political will and champions to support accelerating community health reforms, including domestic financing.

3. Country and community leadership: Partner with countries to ensure that financing mechanisms contribute towards achieving national community health goals.
   
   Anchored within their local context and health reform journey of each participating country, this support from AFF will help them: 

4. Reduce excess morbidity and mortality. Advance prevention, vaccination, testing, and treatment to reduce the impact of COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, and support maternal and child health.

5. Advance health security. Bolster integrated digital disease surveillance in the community health workforce to monitor, quickly detect, and respond to emergent infectious disease threats.

6. Accelerate economic recovery. Build a compensated workforce of trained, supplied, digitally equipped, and supervised community health workers--especially women--who contribute to the formal economy.