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Overview
Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led partnership that works with governments, donors, and the private sector to address systemic financing challenges to scaling primary and community health programs across sub-Saharan Africa.
Mission
We partner with governments on all steps of financing to strengthen and sustain community health systems; leveraging primary health care to attain universal health coverage.
Values
- Respect and trust are the basis of our relationships
- We challenge and disrupt the status quo for impact
- We are curious, passionate and effective in our approach
- We are driven to support the well-being of communities
The aspiration of the Financing Alliance is to provide significant support to governments to leverage the existing funds better and to mobilize new funding for strong and effective health systems.
Despite strong evidence for invests in community health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, a $4 billion+ funding gap persists. Furthermore, current donor funding supports mostly vertical, disease-specific Community Health Worker (CHW) programs that are costlier and less efficient than horizontal, integrated programs. National governments that seek to streamline and scale CHW programs face significant barriers including building political prioritization, developing policies, mapping resources, and establishing financing strategies. As a result, Ministry of Health teams often struggle to mobilize resources and scale robust, sustainable community health systems, with community health workers at their core.
FAH is working towards a new reality where domestic and international funders prioritize community health as a key contributor to achieving Universal Health Coverage and recognition of community health as a critical investment rather than a cost that burdens individual members of the society.