December 2020

Launch of $30M Working Ca pita I Loan Facility 0DAPHI

CII, in close partnership with the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), the Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Health Finance Coalition (HFC), and Medical Credit Fund helped launch the Open Doors African Private Healthcare Initiative (ODAPHI). ODAPHI is a $30M working capital loan facility that leverages a loan guarantee to support private healthcare small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) and facilities to continue providing essential healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya. HFC is a coalition of partners that includes Malaria No More, Rockefeller Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and MCJ Amelior Foundation. Please see the press release for more info.

USAID Supported Innovations Selected by Million lives Club

57 innovations have been selected as members of the Million Lives Club - an initiative that celebrates innovators and social entrepreneurs that are scaling their solutions for global development challenges. These new members include several USAID- funded innovators like Gradian, Living Goods. Sim prints, and Dimagi. For example, Living Goods is an innovator funded through the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge and featured in Cll's Global Health Innovation Index [PDF, 4.5MB]. Living Goods supports networks of tech-enabled, performance-driven community health workers to go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and diagnosing, treating, and referring children for basic illness.

ATScale Investment Case

ATscale, The Global Partnership for Assistive Technology, released a seminal publication that analyzed the importance of prioritizing investment in assistive technology, such as wheelchairs, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and prostheses, across economic, health, and social returns. This publication included the first-ever return on investment modelling for assistive technology. The analysis showed that investing in assistive technology leads to a 9:1 return on investment, increasing lifetime income by more than $100,000 in an LMIC. CII supported the USAID Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitatian Assistance in the incubation and launch of ATscale and was a key contributor to this publication.

Global Surgical Training Challenge

Cll's Rachel Wood, with expertise provided by the Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, served on the judging panel for the Global Surgical Training Challenge. a competition to develop and support surgical simulation training modules for low-resource settings. The judges selected 10 teams for a Discovery Award of up to $200k each, awarding modules that teach surgical skills ranging from trauma surgery to colostomy procedures in infants. Toward the end of 2021, judges will select five of the teams to receive $500k, with one team receiving a $1 million Grand Prize in 2022. The Challenge is a collaboration among Nesta Challenges. MIT Solve and Intuitive Foundation.