Overview
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Government Support
The Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) partners with African governments to enhance community health financing processes. Our country engagement work involves collaborating with local stakeholders to understand costs, explore alternative financing mechanisms such as taxation, insurance, and partner support, and implement sustainable health financing strategies. Since Inception, FAH has worked with 16 national governments and 6 sub-national governments in Kenya.
Africa Frontline First Initiative
AFF is an initiative from Financing Alliance for Health who are the seed investor and fiscal sponsor in partnership with Community Health Impact Coalition and Last Mile Health to increase financing for community health to save and improve lives in Africa.
Africa faces a $4.4 billion annual financing gap for community health which is driven by fragmented funding and a focus on short- term outcomes. AFF designs large-scale financing mechanisms that pool resources, thus reducing the fragmentation and wastage of the limited financing that exists on the continent for community Health.
AFF Catalytic Fund: is the first financing mechanism designed by AFF which has mobilized $120 million to support the deployment of 200,000 professionalized community health workers in 10 African countries by 2030.
Capacity Building For Sustainability
For the Financing Alliance for Health (FAH), capacity building involves enhancing the abilities of stakeholders to effectively manage and sustain community health programs long after we exit the projects. FAH’s capacity building efforts focus on areas such as public financial management, health financing strategies, and the integration of community health workers into national health systems.
By strengthening these capacities within Ministries of Health and Finance, Local Organizations, Health Management Teams and Community Health Leaders, FAH aims to ensure that health systems are resilient, well-funded, and capable of delivering high-quality healthcare services to underserved populations.
- (a) Health Systems Accelerator (HSA) Fellowship Program
- (b) Online Course Series
The HSA Fellowship Program is an initiative by FAH aimed at equipping Ministry of Health or Ministry of Finance personnel with essential skills in health systems strengthening, leadership, governance, and health financing. Through this 9 – months long program, fellows gain the expertise to address critical health challenges, particularly in advancing Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) outcomes. This initiative was launched in 2024 and Cohort 1 graduated on September 30, 2024. Cohort 2 will be starting their Journey in January 2025.Click here to learn more (this should link to Page 3 below which provides full information about the Fellowship
The online course series draws on cases and lessons learned from practitioners around the world, presenting an in-depth exploration of the financing pathways crucial to building well-designed, adequately resourced, and sustainable community health systems.
- Freely available: Course series requires no prerequisites & no payment
- Self-paced & Engaging: Learn at your own pace, spend only 3 hours per course per week, through videos, case studies, quizzes & more
- Earn Certificates: Get a certificate on completing each course & the full series
- 7 courses in less than 7 weeks- Lets display these as a cycle
- Political Prioritization,
- Investment Planning & Creating Systems for Sustainable Financing
- Costing
- Resource Mapping and Gap Analysis
- Sources of Funding
- Making the case
- Public Financial Management
- 1300+ Learners across 90 countries> Enroll Today !! With Link to Online Course
Toolkits And Publications
Generation of Evidence and Knowledge supports the Financing Alliance for Health’s mission to strengthen health financing for community health systems globally. This work involves
- developing toolkits to support decision making on country costings, investment cases and financing pathways
- Publishing critical insights in the form of case studies, white papers and others
We use both the toolkits and publications to support advocacy for sustainable financing solutions to improve health outcomes. Learn More(link to actual page)
Advocacy and Events
FAH advocates at both national and global levels for the prioritization of community health and development of effective funding mechanisms. We do this through various partnerships, hosting webinars and attending events with the aim to ensure that community health is recognized and invested in as a critical investment for achieving universal health coverage.
