Building Understanding of and Support for the GFF

In 2015, the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) was established to help close the gap in financing that is needed to eliminate preventable deaths among women, children, and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. The GFF supports government-led, multi-stakeholder platforms to develop and implement a national, prioritized health plan that aims to help mobilize sustainable financing for health and nutrition.

JCIE Publications | Toward Achieving the SDGs: The GFF’s Impact and Challenges and Its Significance for Japan

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Global Financing Facility (GFF), established in 2015, based on 40 interviews with experts and stakeholders, with the aim of fostering understanding of the GFF in Japan.

The Road to UHC: The GFF’s Catalytic Role in Supporting PHC Toward the Achievement of UHC

GFF UHC PHC report

This report provides a overview of the Global Financing Facility (GFF)’s role in supporting primary health care (PHC) toward the goal of achieving universal health coverage (UHC), as well as examples from three country cases: Cote d’Ivoire, Viet Nam, and Tajikistan.

WEBINAR | For the Health of All Women and Children: What is the Role of the GFF?

GFF seminar

JCIE and Save the Children Japan co-hosted an event to discuss the role of the GFF in improving primary health care towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in low- and middle-income countries.

1st GFF Seminar | Introducing the Financing Facility

JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to strengthen maternal and child health and expand universal health coverage in the world’s most vulnerable countries.

Bringing the GFF to the 34th Executive Committee Meeting

As a part of the 34th meeting of the Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security, Dr. Muhammad Pate, Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) spoke to over 50 meeting participants, including legislators, senior government officials, academia, private companies, and civil society organizations in Japan. He explained the critical […]

EVENT | Investing in Nutrition—The Role of Catalytic Financing

The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), joined by the Ministry of Finance of Japan, the World Bank, and the *Global Finance Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF), held an official Nutrition for Growth 2021 Summit event: “Investing in Nutrition—The Role of Catalytic Financing.”

WEBINAR | GFF’s Role in Protecting the Nutrition and Health of Women, Children, and Adolescents in the Time of COVID-19

Leading up to the Nutrition for Growth 2021 Summit, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) hosted a high-level webinar that brought together Diet members and key figures in discussions on advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and how the Global Finance Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) plays a vital role in building a “no one left behind” healthcare system worldwide.

3rd GFF Seminar | The GFF’s Impact on the Ground—Case of the Nutrition Project in Cambodia

JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to strengthen maternal and child health and expand universal health coverage in the world’s most vulnerable countries.

2nd GFF Seminar | The Global Financing Facility in the COVID-19 Crisis

JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to strengthen maternal and child health and expand universal health coverage in the world’s most vulnerable countries.