We’re thrilled to officially launch our 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: Saving Lives at Scale through Country-Led, Digitally Enabled Community Health Systems. The new plan focuses on enabling government partners to drive improved health outcomes nationally by digitizing community health.

Living Goods will invest in learning sites in every core country we support, provide implementation support to government-led scale up, and strengthen the enabling environment.  By 2026, we aim to significantly improve health outcomes for at least 18 million people across five countries. 

OUR STRATEGIC PILLARS

1. Enabling resilient, effective government-led community health by:

• Strengthening service delivery for 6 million people through learning sites that Living Goods directly funds and manages, with a focus on rapid innovation and enhancing the effectiveness of approaches to community health.
• Supporting governments to scale for national impact, reaching 12 million people, by providing implementation support that helps to institutionalize best practices of our DESC (digitize, equip, supervise, and compensate) approach.
• Shaping the enabling environment around policies, financing, and tools for digital technology and data for decision-making.

2. Driving sustained, national impact across a portfolio of countries through cost-effective, data-driven community health

This strategy is squarely focused on driving national-level impact, and so we have given great thought as to where and how to best grow our support to partners. Innovation and evidence remain a priority. Learning sites will provide opportunities for rapid experimentation; for innovations that prove successful, we will work with governments towards national scale. These learnings and best practices can be leveraged to further advance the field of community health. Across our portfolio of countries, the level of investment over the course of the strategy will depend on each country’s comparative return on investment (ROI), and the strength of the enabling environment.

3. Following a clear blueprint plan for entering new countries

Living Goods will follow a clearly defined blueprint to identify new countries that have strong government commitment to community health that we can partner with long-term to drive improved health outcomes nationally. The blueprint is intended to provide guidance on investment decisions, while maintaining the flexibility to meet country needs and be opportunistic to pursue new impact opportunities with a clear potential for higher ROI.

CROSS-CUTTING ENABLERS

1. Anchoring on digital tools, data & disruptive innovation as drivers of impact: We remain software-agnostic, and will continue to prioritize using technology to support governments, CHWs and their supervisors to drive results, including using data for decision-making at every level of the health system.
2. Resourcing the plan: Philanthropy remains Living Goods’ primary source of revenue in the short-term, and we will actively pursue awards from bi- and multilateral funders. We also aim to catalyze ~$70 million in co-financing over the course of this plan and will develop additional capacity to support governments and partners to increase global institutional funding for community health and domestic financing.
3. Strengthening organizational capabilities: We will focus on our People and Culture, ensuring we have motivated and diverse teams, and strengthening our organizational effectiveness through strong systems, processes, and governance that enable us to succeed, while ensuring rigorous controls over resources.

COUNTRIES OF OPERATION

Kenya: The first testing ground for our new strategy, we’ll operate a learning site in Busia County with 850 CHWs to experiment and innovate and will provide implementation support to Isiolo and Kisumu counties’ governments to help institutionalize and scale DESC best practices. Nationally, we’ll continue to support government’s plan to digitize all 95,000 CHWs.

Uganda: Serving as a learning lab at scale, Uganda remains critical for Living Goods, and we will continue to support thousands of CHWs to continue cost-effectively saving lives through service delivery, while continuing to strengthen the enabling environment.

Burkina Faso: This is the first country we’re entering using our new expansion blueprint and where we will consciously follow a roadmap to ensure true national impact. We are supporting government to design and implement a context-specific digital health tool for its 18,000 CHWs and their supervisors.

New country expansion: We plan to add two more core countries by the end of the five-year plan.