Project profile — Innovation Platform for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) reduced mortality and morbidity among target populations; and (2) improved health outcomes arising from innovative health products and/or services for beneficiaries, communities and health providers in low and middle income countries, with a focus on the poorest of the poor.

Results achieved as of March 2022 include: (1) funded 333 innovations in maternal, newborn and child health and sexual and reproductive health and rights at the proof-of-concept phase. Supported an additional 169 proven innovations to ‘transition to scale’ - or to test the implementation of these innovations in progressively expanding geographic areas - and help innovations with proven impact achieve outcomes; (2) as a result of these innovations, 46% of which are women-led and 80% are implemented in low- and middle-income countries, 18.9 million women, children and teenage girls are using innovative health products and services; (3) saved 23,223 lives and improved 6.5 million lives. As a result of this project, 3.3 million children under the age of five have improved access to early childhood development services. Better essential healthcare has improved the health of 908,224 women and children, and the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases improved the health of 2.8 million women and children. The initiative has also improved the health of 154,286 women and girls through access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services; and (4) for every dollar invested by Global Affairs Canada, innovators have attracted $2.32 from other investors for their innovations.