The GHI will deliver on that commitment through a business model based on seven principles:
- implementing a woman- and girl-centered approach
- increasing impact and efficiency through strategic coordination and integration
- strengthening and leveraging key partnerships, multilateral organizations, and private contributions
- encouraging country ownership and investing in country-led plans; improving metrics, monitoring and evaluation
- build sustainability through health system strengthening
- improve metrics, monitoring, and evaluation
- promoting research and innovation
The GHI will provide strategic funding increases to programmatic areas where large health gains can be achieved. These programmatic areas include: HIV & AIDS; malaria; tuberculosis (TB); family planning; nutrition; maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH); and neglected and tropical diseases (NTDs). The majority of GHI resources will be devoted to implementation and expansion of proven interventions through a strengthened delivery platform, with a particular focus on adopting a woman- and girl- centered approach. Coordination, integration, and partnership with governments and local NGOs will be a hallmark of the plan.
The GHI has four main implementation components:
- Do more of what works: Identify, integrate, take to scale, and evaluate proven approaches in family planning, nutrition, HIV & AIDS, malaria, TB, MNCH, NTDs, safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and other health programs to improve the health of women, newborns, children, and their families and communities. Encourage phasing out strategies that have not produced positive impact on health outcomes.
- Build on and expand existing platforms to foster stronger systems and sustainable results: Build on and expand the platforms supported through US government and other investments, including those in HIV & AIDS, malaria, MNCH, and family planning; strengthen health systems functions to ensure the quality and reach of health services and public health programs in the short and long term; and work with governments to incorporate sustainability into health programming.
- Innovate for results: Identify, implement, and rigorously evaluate new approaches that reward efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Focus particular attention on promising approaches to service integration and delivery, community-based approaches, private-sector participation, the introduction of performance incentives, promotion of health behaviors, and other strategies that have potential to increase value for money.
- Collaborate for impact: Promote country ownership through support for country-led national health plans; improve coordination across US government agencies and with other donors; expand technical assistance with the aim of “working ourselves out of a job”; leverage and help partner governments coordinate and integrate investments by other donors; and create and use systems for feedback about program successes and challenges, in order to focus resources most effectively.