Financing Alliance for Health

What Financing Alliance for Health does

Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led nonprofit organization founded in 2015 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with dual registration as a U.S. 501(c)(3) charity and a Kenyan NGO holding an Equivalency Determination. Its core function is health financing technical assistance to African Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa, currently active in 7 countries (Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali) and historically engaged in 16. FAH embeds expert advisors within governments on 3-5 year partnerships to co-develop costed Primary Health Strategies, enabling policies, investment cases, and resource mobilization plans, and supports 22 governments in total (16 national, 6 sub-national).

FAH's core offerings span Government Support partnerships, the HSFA Fellowship Program (a 9-month fellowship delivered with Last Mile Health's Community Health Academy plus a 7-course online series), financing mechanisms (the Africa Frontline First Initiative and Community Health Unit Savings and Loan Associations), the Community Health Financing Assessment Tool, the Community Health Dashboard data platform, publications and policy briefs, and Fiscal Sponsorship services. The underlying technology platform combines a centralized CHIP dashboard for tracking community health financing with self-assessment toolkits and online learning content delivered through external partnerships.

FAH's revenue model is grant-based, with funding from foundations (Skoll, Johnson & Johnson Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hilton Foundation, Bayer Foundation, Medtronic Foundation), multilateral institutions (Global Fund), and governments, supplemented by fiscal sponsorship administrative fees of 10-15% of funds raised on sponsored projects. Customers are national and sub-national African governments, Ministry of Health personnel in fellowship cohorts, and donors, foundations, and NGOs using FAH as a fiscal sponsor. The organization operates as a trusted technical partner rather than a product seller, with primary revenue streams tied to philanthropic grants and pass-through fiscal sponsorship.

Name

Financing Alliance for Health

Legal name

Financing Alliance for Health

Website

https://financingalliance.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Financing Alliance for Health is an Africa-based nonprofit providing health financing technical assistance to African Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa, supporting resource mobilization, policy development, and capacity building for primary and community health systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Financing Technical Assistance

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Health Financing Mechanisms & Pooled Funds (HLAJAOAC), International & Global Public Health Aid Administration (Government Donors) (HLAJALAO)

Keywords

• Health financing technical assistance
• Primary healthcare funding
• Community health worker programs
• Government health partnerships
• Fiscal sponsorship services

Headquarters

HQ city

Nairobi

HQ country

Kenya

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grants and Donations: FAH receives grants and donations from foundations, governments, and multilateral organizations to support its programs and technical assistance to African governments. Strong financial backing from Global Fund, Skoll Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hilton Foundation, and others. FAH was the seed investor in Africa Frontline First.
2. Fiscal Sponsorship Fees: FAH charges administrative fees (10-15% of funds raised) to provide fiscal sponsorship services to African-led projects, managing funding, reporting, and compliance while reducing administrative burdens for both donors and recipients. Sectors supported include health, education, environment, climate, nutrition, WASH, gender, and economic empowerment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) is an Africa-based, African-led nonprofit that provides health financing technical assistance to African governments. It establishes long-term (3-5 year) embedded partnerships with Ministries of Health to develop costed Primary Health Strategies, build investment cases, support resource mobilization, and strengthen public financial management for primary and community health systems. It also operates capacity-building programs (HSFA Fellowship), financing mechanisms (Africa Frontline First, CHUSLAs), an online course series, a Community Health Dashboard data platform, the Community Health Financing Assessment Tool, and a Fiscal Sponsorship service for Africa-led projects.

Product overview

Financing Alliance for Health is an Africa-based, African-led health financing technical organization that offers a portfolio of services including Government Support partnerships, the HSFA Fellowship Program, financing mechanisms (Africa Frontline First Initiative and CHUSLAs), the Community Health Financing Assessment Toolkit, publications and policy briefs, an online course series, the Community Health Dashboard (CHIP) data platform, and Fiscal Sponsorship services. These offerings work together to support African governments in mobilizing sustainable financing, developing health financing policies, building capacity, and strengthening primary and community health systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Africa Frontline First (AFF): An Africa-led partnership under the championship of H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, that drives smarter, more effective financing to bring lifesaving care to millions across Africa. By catalyzing $2 billion by 2030, Africa Frontline First will train and deploy 200,000 professional community health workers to serve 100 million people across the continent.

Products and services

• Government Support Long-term (3-5 year) technical assistance partnerships with national and sub-national Ministries of Health across sub-Saharan Africa, embedding expert advisors to co-develop costed Primary Health Strategies, enabling policies, investment cases, and resource mobilization plans for primary and community health systems.
• HSFA Fellowship Program A 9-month specialized fellowship program that upskills Ministry of Health staff on health financing, leadership, governance, and public financial management, delivered in partnership with Last Mile Health's Community Health Academy with 7 distinct course modules.
• Africa Frontline First Initiative (AFF) An Africa-led partnership under the championship of H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that drives smarter, more effective financing for community health, aiming to catalyze $2 billion by 2030 to train and deploy 200,000 professional community health workers serving 100 million people across Africa.
• Community Health Units Savings and Loan Associations (CHUSLAs) A financial mechanism establishing savings and loan associations of 10-20 self-selected community health worker members who save through shared purchases, invest in a loan fund, and access small grants for emergencies to address CHW financial instability.
• Community Health Financing (CHF) Assessment Tool A self-assessment toolkit that helps policymakers, funders, and implementers assess their current financing landscape, explore innovative funding mechanisms, and develop evidence-based strategies to strengthen community health systems, including context assessment, revenue raising analysis, and innovative financing analysis components.
• Online Course Series A 7-course online series on health financing pathways delivered in partnership with Last Mile Health's Community Health Academy, covering costing, making the case for investment, sources of funding, political prioritization, public financial management, resource mapping, and investment planning, accessible globally via enrollment with certificates upon completion.
• Community Health Dashboard (CHIP) A centralized data platform tracking investments to the frontlines of the health system, bringing together data on community health worker programs, financing, and service delivery across countries to help governments, funders, and implementers identify gaps and strengthen primary health care at the community level.
• Fiscal Sponsorship Services Fiscal sponsorship providing financial and operational infrastructure for African-led projects across health, education, environment, climate, nutrition, WASH, gender, and economic empowerment, with administrative fees of 10-15% of all funds raised; manages funding, reporting, and compliance for donors, foundations, and NGOs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 3 million additional lives per year could be saved by investing in primary health programs in Africa
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Africa Frontline First (AFF)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Africa Frontline First is an Africa-led partnership under the championship of H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that drives smarter, more effective financing for community health. FAH was the seed investor and remains the fiscal sponsor of AFF. The initiative catalyzes $2 billion by 2030 to train and deploy 200,000 professional community health workers to serve 100 million people. The AFF Catalytic Fund is the largest fund in history for professionalized CHWs at $100 million.
• Last Mile Health (LMH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAH collaborates with Last Mile Health to provide comprehensive support to enhance capacity and effectiveness of health systems in partner countries. Joint work includes technical assistance to ministries, digital blended learning for Health Extension Workers (HEWs), and support for Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) access. Also partnered in Liberia for community health strategy co-development.
• MUSOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAH partners with MUSO on strengthening community health systems in Mali and other countries. Joint initiatives include training CHWs on Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), collaboration on investment case finalization, AFF-CF capacity building, and gender integration in health programming.
• Last Mile Health's Community Health AcademycoreTechnology or IntegrationFAH delivers its online course series in partnership with Last Mile Health's Community Health Academy. The 7-course series draws on cases and lessons learned from practitioners worldwide, covering financing pathways for sustainable health systems.
• BIRCH InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAH works with the BIRCH initiative to support countries including Senegal and Mali in accessing the Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF), including capacity building, strategic planning, and resource mobilization.
• Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAH engages with Africa CDC on health initiatives and has organized high-level training sessions with Africa CDC while working directly with national Ministries of Health and collaborating with continent-wide institutions.
• African UnioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAH engages with the African Union on health initiatives, forging strong partnerships and knowledge exchange at the continental level. Participated in the 39th African Union Summit.
• The Missing BillionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a fiscally sponsored project under FAH's fiscal sponsorship program, focused on addressing health gaps for people with disabilities.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Muso: Direct implementation partner of FAH in Mali (and other countries) on community health systems strengthening, iCCM training and investment case development — overlapping closely on the CHW deployment and primary healthcare mandate.
• Last Mile Health: Co-develops the HSFA Fellowship online courses with FAH and works alongside FAH in multiple African countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia) on community health system strengthening and CHW deployment — directly overlapping in target customers (Ministries of Health) and product (community health TA and learning).
• Results for Development (R4D): A specialized health financing TA organization that supports LMIC governments on PFM, health insurance and domestic resource mobilization — substantively overlapping with FAH's government advisory offering and serving many of the same Ministries of Finance/Health.
• ThinkWell: Health financing and systems TA firm with deep Africa footprint (including FP2030, immunization financing work). Comparable in operating model (embedded advisors to governments) and competes for similar donor-funded TA contracts from Gates, GFF and USAID.

Broad incumbents

• Partners In Health: Board member Dr. Daniel Palazuelos is FAH's Senior Health & Policy Advisor for Community Health Systems. PIH is a much larger delivery organization with overlapping CHW and health systems strengthening mandate, but built around direct service delivery rather than the financing-advisory niche FAH occupies.
• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Multiple FAH leaders (Co-CEO Soleine Scotney, Board Chair Victoria Goodfellow) and the operating model itself trace directly back to CHAI. CHAI operates as a much larger global health financing and access organization across LMICs — closely related mission and government-embedded model, but at substantially greater scale and broader disease-area scope.
• Palladium: Large global health systems strengthening implementer (Health Policy Plus, HP+ project) doing health financing and PFM advisory work for USAID and FCDO in many of the same African countries — competes for similar donor-funded health financing engagements.

Emerging players

• Living Goods: Operates government-supported CHW networks in Kenya, Uganda and beyond — directly comparable CHW focus and African footprint, but oriented around direct program implementation and government co-financing rather than upstream financing strategy.

Others

• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Board member Hind Al-Khatib was previously MD of Country Programmes at Gavi. Gavi is one of the major pooled financing mechanisms that FAH helps countries access for immunization and increasingly for primary healthcare — thematically adjacent as a financial intermediary and ecosystem participant.

Regional players

• Africa CDC: Continental public health agency that FAH engages with on health financing initiatives and AU-aligned programs. Africa CDC is a public-sector counterpart setting CHW policy and standards that FAH helps governments operationalize and finance — adjacent rather than competitive.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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