Bigger organisations can use their size, scale, funding and leverage to partner with smaller organisations to drive impactful change and at a faster pace. Identify pockets of local innovation – find the people displaying positive deviance against the norm and lift them up. Create the enabling environment for them to thrive.
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Achieving the desired health and nutritional transformation necessitates a joint initiative involving businesses and government bodies. This entails implementing strategic supply chain interventions in combination with community engagement activities.
More investment in Community Health Workers - not only as the last mile delivery of care but also from a gender perspective! The private sector has a huge role to play in integrated primary healthcare delivery and investing in community health. Both from a moral perspective but also from an economic perspective - We need doctors, nurses, midwives, frontline workers, community health workers etc.
In most parts of the world, community health workers are often low-paid and denied opportunities for professional growth. Gender issues are rampant within the health workforce. Although women form the bulk of the workforce, they have long been underrepresented in leadership roles. Women make up nearly 64% of the health sector workforce in low- and middle-income countries and more than 75 percent in high-income countries. On average, these women earn 20 percent less than their male counterparts. Part of the reason for the inequity in pay is that many women, about 6 million worldwide, serve in unpaid or underpaid roles. Many female health care workers and community health workers face threats to their security, which includes gender-based violence, verbal abuse, and discrimination. In humanitarian settings, the situation is even more challenging, leading to inequities in access and care.
Improving access to health products through training Community Health Workers: is also a key component of healthcare, and in many countries inextricably linked with trained and professionalized community health workers. Many children worldwide do not have adequate and regular access to health products given many devices in resource-poor settings are broken, inoperable, unused, or unfit for purpose. Access also depends on affordability, which remains a challenge for smaller markets such as children’s medicines. Non-communicable diseases and introduction of new medicines are putting increasing pressure on health systems and on individuals to pay out of pocket in case of limited government financing. Further to these challenges, an inadequately trained workforce hinders equitable access to healthcare as many countries do not have workers with the special skills required for procurement of quality-assured products, lack biomedical engineering capacity to advise on medical devices and suitability for use in resource-poor settings, as well as inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and use of medicines. To strengthen equitable access to health products, community health workers and health workers in general must be adequately trained to ensure that low-resource communities receive equitable healthcare.
We need to get behind country-led approaches to solving these challenges. The financing needs far exceed the capacity of traditional donor-centric approaches, which is why we need national governments to lead politically, financially, and operationally. Supporting this kind of national stewardship is also what will create opportunities for the private sector to contribute.
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100%, As a growing start up (Cape Bio Pharms - a grateful finalist in the WinFUND), raising growth capital is very difficult. We can’t demonstrate the sales that the VC crowds want, yet we are getting there. But patience is not something the investment community factors into the ROI plans.
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With the right investment and partnerships, MSMEs can build resilience and transform food systems which serve as a springboard for maternal, child and adolescent health. There is thus a need to create a sustainable platform that will specifically target these MSMEs in improving their outcomes in the food and health eco-system.
SBN proposes to optimize the approach of linking MSMEs that have specific commitment to positive nutrition outcomes with the appropriate investors and partners in the food system as a step to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 2 “Zero Hunger”, of ending all forms of hunger and malnutrition. Platforms such as the pitch competitions and deal rooms act as innovative levers of change to link MSMEs to a diverse pool of investors and partners, fast tracking actions towards a sustainable food system
Hello everyone,
Its a pleasure to be here… My name is Abel R. Okai, representing Prosperity CARE as Deputy Director for Programs…
Looking forward to an engaging conversation for partnership in my country.
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Great discussion on business roles in improving outcomes for women, children, and adolescents! For healthcare providers looking to expand access via technology, knowing how to create telemedicine platform is becoming more key than ever. It involves integrating secure video, patient data management, scheduling, and privacy features—this guide provides a clear overview: how to create telemedicine platform.