About

The GFF was established in 2015 to help end the preventable deaths of women and children. A multistakeholder partnership hosted at the World Bank Group, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) is uniquely equipped to help low- and middle-income countries mobilize and align additional financing from the World Bank Group (WBG), domestic resources, and external partners to prioritize and scale investments in the most cost-effective health and nutrition services for women, children, and adolescents.

The GFF has demonstrated the power of its country-led, catalytic model to save lives and enable partner countries to deliver greater health for the money, reduce health sector fragmentation, and drive long-term sustainability of their health systems to improve health outcomes for generations to come. The GFF model embodies the Lusaka Agenda and Accra Reset principles of country leadership and health sovereignty and supports long-term health system sustainability. Its impact was validated by a robust independent evaluation published in April 2025.

Since 2015, the GFF has mobilized US$2.5 billion in grants linked to more than US$11 billion in WBG financing, and GFF partner countries have seen a median increase of 24 percent in their share of IDA financing for health and nutrition for women, children, and adolescents. Since joining the GFF, partner countries have flipped from slower than average performance to become global leaders in reducing maternal and child deaths.

To date, the GFF partnership has helped countries reach hundreds of millions of women, children and adolescents around the world with access to quality, affordable essential health and nutrition services, including: