Health

Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Women, Children, and Adolescents

The Global Financing Facility (GFF) was launched in 2015 as a multi-donor trust fund dedicated to health & nutrition of women, children, and adolescents aiming to close the funding gap by catalyzing further development assistance, domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and private sector investments. The GFF is helping governments in 36 low and lower-middle income countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa transform how they prioritize and finance the health and nutrition of their people.

Priority Areas

The private sector strategy of the GFF seeks to leverage private resources, capacity, and expertise to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents by:

• Catalyzing innovative financing mechanisms to crowd in private sector capital for women, children, and adolescents’ health in GFF countries;
• Facilitating partnerships between global private sector organizations and GFF countries; and
• Leveraging private sector capabilities in countries to deliver on investment case objectives.

IFC and GFF signed a Transfer Agreement in April 2020 and have partnered to use GFF funding for private sector projects in GFF-eligible countries and in line with GFF strategies.