Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) supports innovators in low and middle-income countries
and Canada. It is one of the largest social impact investors in Canada and has supported a
pipeline of more
than 1,000 innovations in more than 90 countries.
AHB is currently supporting GCC with the implementation of
a ten (10) month public sector
scaling platform to support the maternal, newborn
and child health
(MNCH)
innovations in
low
and middle
–
income coun
tries supported through the Grand Challenges
Canada’s
Transition to Scale program.
The aim of the public sector scaling platform is to help innovators
successfully develop and/or implement public sectors
scaling strategies and ultimately
increase the impact of GCCs investments.
Throughout the program, AHB
plays an advisory role to
to 13 innovators, covering six countries
(Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria). Throughout the project, AHB provides an understanding of the local public procurement systems, processes, and actors
through: