GFF Strategy (2026–2030): Public Consultation
STRATEGY CONTEXT
July 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF), which was launched in 2015 with the goal to end preventable maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent deaths by 2030. The GFF was designed as an innovative, country-led platform to coalesce, align, and catalyze international and domestic financing for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) in low- and lower-middle-income countries with the highest burdens of maternal and child mortality, and thereby contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) on Health and Well-Being for All as well as achievement of all related SDGs.
The current five-year strategy of the GFF concludes at the end of 2025, and the GFF is now embarking on development of its 2026–2030 strategy. The new strategy will build on the current one and on results to date, incorporating lessons learned, evolving global and national contexts, and new evidence on how to accelerate progress on health for women, children, and adolescents. The new strategy will set out the GFF’s priorities for the next five years to better target its financing and interventions for greater impact. The strategy will be shaped by insights from the recent GFF independent evaluation and other reviews as well as by consultations with a wide range of global and national stakeholders, including governments, civil society and youth organizations, philanthropies, and private sector representatives. The new strategy is expected to be finalized by the end of the calendar year.
VALUE OF YOUR FEEDBACK
Your feedback will play a crucial role in shaping GFF’s future directions and ensuring we stay responsive, impactful, and supportive of country-led agendas to promote the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. We invite interested stakeholders to take our survey and share their feedback by 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Monday, May 12, 2025.
Questions about the strategy can be directed to gffstrategy@worldbank.org.
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INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE GFF
The first independent evaluation of the GFF was conducted in 2024/25, with the purpose of generating evidence, heightening accountability, and enabling learning on the GFF model, and to provide insights for the next strategy. The evaluation included all 36 GFF partner countries and covered the period starting from GFF’s inception in 2015, with a primary focus on the 2021-2025 strategy period. The evaluation employed a theory-based, mixed-methods approach, grounded in testing the GFF logic model and theory of change (TOC). Key components included an extensive document review, 163 key informant interviews (KIIs), two online surveys, and ten country case studies.
Key documents from the evaluation can be found below:
Global Financing Facility Strategy 2021-2025: Protecting, Promoting and Accelerating Health Gains for Women, Children and Adolescents
The strategy was endorsed by the GFF Trust Fund Committee and Investors Group in October 2021.
