IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Published purpose

This project supports the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF). The GFF is a multi-donor financing platform that provides country-led, sustainable financing to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths. The GFF uses these funds, along with funds from country donors, private foundations and recipient country domestic resources, to implement its 2021-2025 Strategy: Protecting, Promoting and Accelerating Health Gains for Women, Children and Adolescents. This strategy takes into consideration countries’ needs related to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The GFF finances national reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) plans, supports countries in the transition towards sustainable domestic financing of RMNCAH-N, contributes to coordinated financing for RMNCAH-N, finances the strengthening of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, and finances the development and deployment of global public goods. Project activities include: (1) supporting countries in developing individual RMNCAH-N investment cases to align sources of financing to national priorities; (2) clinical interventions such as increasing access to health services and health facilities from the pre-pregnancy stage onwards for women, newborns and children; (3) health systems interventions such as strengthening health systems, strengthening health information systems and increasing access to medical products/technologies; and (4) multi-sectoral interventions in multiple sectors such as education, nutrition, and water and sanitation and strengthening of CRVS systems. Project activities will vary depending on the RMNCAH-N priorities of the recipient government. To leverage additional financing for RMNCAH-N, the GFF matches grant funding from the GFF Trust Fund to financing from the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The GFF’s country selection is prioritized, based on criteria that includes available resources, need, population and income, eligibility for loans from the IDA/IBRD and the ability to achieve results. In support of the Every Women Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016-2030, the GFF contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for RMNCAH-N in 36 countries, with a focus on five targets of SDG3 (Good Health and Well-being) and one target of SDG2 (Zero Hunger).