The GFF was launched in April 2015 after which the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo put in place a GFF platform that grouped together health stakeholders as well as other line ministries, representatives from civil society, and technical and financial partners. The GFF platform took the lead in developing the country’s investment case which prioritizes even further the interventions laid out in the National Strategic Development Plan 2016-2020.

The Ministry of Health, with representatives from the civil society, focused on defining RMNCAH priorities; UNICEF conducted a health system bottleneck analysis; the World Health Organization provided support in costing the investment framework; and the GFF secretariat helped with the resource mapping exercise. In the future, the GFF platform will be tasked to monitor the implementation of the investment casein the 14 prioritized provinces.

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