Transitioning Innovations in Maternal and Neonatal Child Health to Scale
One major challenge that healthcare innovations face is that, despite having great and effective ideas, transitioning into a sustainable business within healthcare settings can be difficult.
Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) is an impact investor dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas and Big Impact with the aim to support and grow these innovative solutions to critical health challenges faced by underserved women, girls and children in low- and middle-income countries. In 2013, GCC launched the Transition to Scale (TTS) program, which helps catalyze the scale and sustainability of innovations with a proven impact on health.
In 2019, AHB supported the GCC TTS 7-month pilot project named the East Africa Health Innovator Platform. The goal of the platform was to increase the social impact, organizational resilience and financial sustainability of GCC funded innovations as they transition to scale. AHB provided technical advisory support from key experts, an online support platform to foster continuous co-learning opportunities and sharing of challenges amongst innovators and individualized ono-one coaching sessions.
In 2021, AHB provided further support to the GCC TTS program that was focused on scale up of maternal, newborn and child health innovations in the public sector. AHB supported by creating linkages and connections between innovators and public sector players, positioning and mentoring innovators via custom made innovator-specific public sector scaling value propositions and identifying collaboration opportunities within the cohort of innovators and smart partners to leapfrog and scale up the innovators and innovations.
About our Partner
GCC is a not-for-profit organization created, in part, with funding from the Government of Canada and other partners, it funds innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada. It has supported a pipeline of over 1,400 innovations in over 100 countries. The organisation estimates that these innovations have the potential to save up to 1.78 million lives and improve up to 64 million lives by 2030. GCC supports the development and scale up of innovations in healthcare on the African continent and beyond. The African continent bares fertile ground for innovations in healthcare. Innovations that can significantly help improve lives, health impact and even prevent deaths.
