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We partner with and serve communities, governments and companies throughout the world, providing an innovative mix of services across a broad range of topics.
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INDIA
Diabetes Storytelling Lab
Dalberg Media, the World Diabetes Foundation and USAID are hosting a Diabetes Storytelling Lab in India. Summary There are 77 million people living with diabetes in India, which makes the country home to the second highest number of diabetics in the world. Yet, 1 in 2 people living with diabetes in India are unaware of…
AFRICA
Supporting Malawi’s first national community health strategy
Dalberg supported USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) and the Malawi’s Ministry of Health to develop the country’s first National Community Health Strategy. The NCHS could save over 6,000 lives each year and generate at least a 3:1 return on investment.
GLOBAL
UICC – Design and feasibility assessment of the healthy cities fund
The Union for International Cancer Control and the Healthy City Partnership engaged Dalberg to explore and design the Healthy Cities Fund, with the objective of financing city-level health infrastructure in low and middle-income countries. The Dalberg team undertook a market assessment, including desk research and interviews with different health financing experts globally to identify current sources and uses of health infrastructure financing, financing needs and gaps and barriers that inhibit investment. We were then engaged to develop different design options for the fund’s strategy and structure.
GLOBAL
Supporting the launch of global health innovations
We produced a report, toolkit and workbook to help innovators and practitioners think through, plan and execute scalable and successful global health innovations from bench to bedside. Accompanying examples provide context and demonstrate ideas in practice.
GLOBAL
Safe surgery 2020: Reducing preventable deaths from surgically treatable conditions
We designed and implemented Safe Surgery 2020 – an initiative working to reduce preventable deaths from surgically treatable conditions. We collaborate with ministries of health, academia, NGOs and surgical teams in low-income areas to support a transformation in patient outcomes.
INDIA
Developing a roadmap to invest in healthcare in India
We helped USAID to develop a roadmap to invest in healthcare in India. We identified three key priorities for their investments: strengthen the financing landscape for health, engage the private sectors to improve health outcomes, and support innovative products, technologies, processes and business models.
GLOBAL
Measuring the effectiveness of advocacy
We designed a two-year controlled trial with the UN Foundation to measure the effectiveness of an advocacy campaign aiming to increase U.S. Members of Congress’ support for malaria prevention and vaccinations in the Global South.
GLOBAL
Supporting c/can 2025: City cancer challenge
We produced a publication with the UICC detailing why cities should invest in cancer treatment and how city leaders can leverage new sources of finance to fund the infrastructure. The report was launched at Davos, the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting
NIGERIA
Reducing neonatal mortality by increasing the use of chlorhexidine
We designed a toolkit to engage the private sector and communities to increase use of chlorhexidine – an antiseptic which reduces neonatal mortality. We explored barriers and opportunities related to behavior change through interviews, home and clinic visits and professional workshops.
INDIA
Developing a hygiene intervention in urban schools in Mumbai
We helped a design firm develop and evaluate their hygiene intervention in government-run urban schools in Mumbai. We developed communication tools to facilitate partnerships with large multinationals that have an interest in boosting good hygiene practices among low-income communities in Mumbai.
GLOBAL
Designing a funding mechanism for hypertension interventions
We designed an intervention to address hypertension (high blood pressure) in low- and middle-income countries. We selected three cities to pilot the intervention, and recommended a financing approach whereby a coalition of strategic private sector actors demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of an integrated approach to combating hypertension.
GLOBAL
Creating a strategy for access to appropriate pricing for vaccines
We worked with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to ensure access to appropriate vaccine pricing for countries transitioning away from the organization’s support. We recommended a payment mechanism to provide pre-financing to countries to procure vaccines on a need basis.
ETHIOPIA, KENYA
Studying how policies and regulations affect healthcare
We conducted country landscape assessments in Kenya and Ethiopia to understand how policies and regulations affecting healthcare were created. We identified key influencers of health policies, evaluated how advocacy strategies can be most influential, and developed a theory of change and results framework for those strategies.
ASIA
Identifying talent to lead Gavi’s immunization programs in Asia
We worked with Gavi to deploy experienced global public health managers to support their Expanded Programs on Immunization in several countries across Asia. We recruited managers who integrate strategic analysis with technical expertise to provide game-changing insights, and provided these managers with strategic oversight over a two-year period.
CENTRAL AMERICA
Scaling access to clean cooking solutions in Central America
We supported the World Bank and the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua in scaling and reaching universal access to clean cooking solutions by developing a roadmap and investment prospectus for the 2015-2019.
GLOBAL
Developing the field of planetary health
We worked with the Rockefeller Foundation to develop a new approach to addressing global human health challenges by understanding the underlying environmental foundations for health. We then identified specific entry points for investment. This new approach – Planetary Health – seeks to uncover new solutions to entrenched as well as emerging health challenges in developed and developing countries.
GLOBAL
Accelerating the financing of critical healthcare commodities
We supported a multi-donor trust fund focused on reproductive, maternal and child health to design and launch a Commodities Credit Facility that accelerates the financing and provision of critical healthcare commodities in developing countries.
GLOBAL
Furthering sleeping sickness control efforts
We worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to re-evaluate its strategy to further sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis, TB gambiense) control efforts, and determine the potential of a push to eliminate the disease.
AFRICA
Supporting who afro’s transformation agendasupporting-who-afros-transformation-agenda
We supported the WHO AFRO’s transformation agenda to improve its efficacy, accountability and responsiveness in dealing with health situations in the continent, and realign organizational structure with strategic priorities. We recommended improving key business processes, improving top-heavy pyramids, and facilitating better ways of working for intercountry teams.
GLOBAL
Prototyping market entry strategies in global health
We worked with a large global health organization to prototype market entry strategies for two product innovations, one in reproductive health and the other a tablet-based application for labor and delivery across multiple markets in East Africa and Asia
ETHIOPIA, INDIA, KENYA
Defining the process of institutionalizing deworming programs
We helped CIFF define and understand the process of institutionalizing deworming programs. We created a framework to evaluate the institutionalization of deworming programs, and to signal the potential sustainability of the project after the funding cycle has ended.
MOZAMBIQUE
Designing and implementing a performance based Malaria Bond
We partnered with a private-sector coalition to design, issue, and implement the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond on behalf of the government of Mozambique. The bond will increase funding for, and the efficiency of, malaria interventions through a pay-for-performance mechanism.
SOUTH AFRICA
Launching the first social impact bond in South Africa
We worked with mothers2mothers to bring to market the Impact Bond Innovation Fund – a first-of-its kind outcomes based financing mechanism for Early Childhood Development in South Africa with a target fund size of 48 million ZAR for its Cape Town pilot.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Supporting the fighting Ebola grand challenge portfolio
We provided human centered design support to seven promising solutions from the Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge portfolio, each targeting different layers in the public health ecosystem.
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The Dalberg team is outstanding, agile, and thoughtful. They bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to complex, multi-stakeholder projects. Dalberg’s work style is more collaborative than that of other consultants, and they also have a sharper focus on equity and inclusion – they became part of our team, not just consultants.
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