Background

Tackling funding

fragmentation

The development of the Digital Investment Principles started as a discussion at the Wilton Park meeting on “Digital Health in Africa: leadership and coordination” at end of 2017.

A convening was hosted by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in January 2018 in Santa Cruz, California (US) to discuss the challenges and opportunities of donor alignment principles for digital health. The meeting was moderated by VitalWave and the following organisations were in attendance. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ/GIZ, CDC, IDRC, Norad, PEPFAR, Rockefeller Foundation, and SPIDER.

Since then many other funders/investors have been asked to provide input to develop the principles to the final version we have today. The organisations are:

African Development Bank (AfDB)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

European Union (EU)

Gavi

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Global Affairs Canada

Global Financing Facility (GFF)

Global Fund

International Development Research Center (IDRC)