“Post-COVID there’s more of an emphasis on scale and sustainability and health system resilience. Governments are increasingly thinking about the private sector’s role in achieving more resilient #health systems for the next challenge.”
Lilia Zakirova, MSD:
“Improved maternal health care services impact not only #women, they also impact children, families, and communities.”
Lilia Zakirova, MSD:
“I’m lucky to have good access to good health care, but it should be available to all because it’s a matter of future choices, of future opportunities for children’s education, of women coming back to the work workforce. It’s not only about the money, it’s also about sustainability of health care systems in general.”
Sue Tym, Primark:
“We know that unsafe working conditions, bullying, sexual harassment — they all contribute to stress and physical insecurity, which leads to absenteeism and higher turnover. People leaving impacts productivity, which in turn then creates a financial and reputational loss for employers, none of which they want.”
Sue Tym, Primark:
“What we tried to do is build peer-to-peer and women-to-women counselling services that give workers and managers access to counselling within factories and to referrals where needed. What we found is that this starts to build trust between managers and workers.”
Sneha Kanneganti, Financing Facility:
“The challenge we are grappling with as an investor community when intervening through [blended finance] is finding the right investments, the right providers, the right recipients – … who are business ready enough to take on finance.”
Ronald Wakhu, Health Finance Coalition:
“Where I live and work, Kenya, young people make up over half of the population. It’s imperative that #health solutions are investments that take into account their needs. This will require a lot of support from a lot of actors and cross-collaboration between government and other actors within the ecosystem.” “
Ronald Wakhu, Health Finance Coalition:
“Today, #women are key drivers of innovative solutions. They are key decision makers, bring unique perspectives and experiences, and understand the challenges faced — and therefore, it’s very important to empower this segment of the population that has been historically sidelined.”
Maziko Matemba, GFF Investors Group:
“Now that most of the countries from the South are forming their health financing systems, it’s an opportunity for the Global North to invest in the South, because there are a lot of gaps”
Maziko Matemba, GFF Investors Group:
“Through the GFF [Global Financing Facility] Framework, countries have got some good models for how best they can capitalise on private sector engagement”
