Project profile — Health Innovation Platform

• North of Sahara, regional (4.00%)
• South of Sahara, regional (60.00%)
• West Indies, regional (5.00%)
• North and Central America, regional (5.00%)
• South America, regional (5.00%)
• Middle East, regional (4.00%)
• Asia, regional (15.00%)
• Oceania, regional (2.00%)

• Basic Education: Early childhood education (11240) (10.00%)
• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (3.00%)
• Basic health care:
Basic health care (12220) (30.00%)
Infectious disease control (12250) (6.00%)
Health personnel development (12281) (4.00%)
• Noncommunicable diseases: Promotion of mental health and well-being (12340) (10.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (9.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (8.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic sanitation (14032) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (5.00%)
• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (5.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to Grand Challenges Canada (GCC). GCC uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. GCC's mandate is to support innovators to develop and transition to scale innovations that improve the health, human rights, and well-being of women, adolescent girls, and children in low- and middle-income countries, including in conflict-affected areas.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased use of gender-responsive, inclusive, and locally-driven health products and services, especially for the most marginalized and vulnerable; (2) increased effectiveness of diverse innovators to test and transition their health innovations to scale and sustainability, integrating gender equality, human rights, inclusion and environmental sustainability; and (3) enhanced generation, sharing, and integration of evidence and learning from innovative, gender-responsive, inclusive, and locally-driven solutions to health challenges by Grand Challenges Canada and other innovation ecosystem actors.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) improved the lives of 992,000 people in low and middle income countries through access to innovations in the areas of maternal and newborn care, sexual and reproductive health and rights, water and sanitation, and humanitarian services; (2) provided access to 3.5M people to innovative, gender-responsive health products and services; (3) trained 28,526 health sector intermediaries to use innovative products and services to improve health and wellbeing, including sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR); (4) 89,105 intermediaries use innovative products or services and SRHR services for women, adolescents, children and newborns; (5) for every dollar of Global Affairs Canada funding invested, innovators have leveraged an additional $3.10 to be reinvested in global health and humanitarian innovations.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: GCC Health Innovation Platform - Monitoring and Evaluation