The Global Financing Facility: 2016–2017 Annual Report

This annual report marks not only another exciting year of the Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman Every Child (GFF), but the end of its first phase. In this report from the GFF secretariat, we want to share with you what we have learned from countries that makes us excited and confident in the GFF as a pathfinder for a new way of financing development.

In 2017, we are in a changing global environment with finite resources for development assistance, where many global health and nutrition initiatives are competing for limited donor resources and where financiers—public and private—want the assurance of significant returns on the investments they make. This is also a time when the challenges that countries face—from fragility and climate change to changing disease patterns and health profiles across the life cycle—call for new thinking while poor communities in all countries also face the unfinished agenda of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N).