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…social enterprise which has received risk capital to expand access to safe, high-quality, and affordable sanitary pads in Kenya. ZanaAfrica uses a holistic approach to instill behavior change around sanitary pads and deliver critical and accurate reproductive and menstrual health information. The funding will enable ZanaAfrica to scale up production of their pads, drive sales…

…in de-risking bold ideas and helping the most promising innovations to scale. Being a champion. The mental health field needs investors who are deeply committed to creating change and who show no fear to talk about it. The stigma that accompanies and sustains the burden of mental illness makes this advocacy even more important in…

…how they are collectively contributing to the elimination of these barriers. From my time here, I hope to become more familiar with the newly developed Theory of Change frameworks (that describe how our projects map onto our institution-level goals) and to understand how we work with the Investment Committee to evaluate innovations for transition to…

…a hard question to answer. Particularly when dealing with global health. Does solving a Grand Challenge mean discovering a cure for a disease? Does it mean affecting change at a systems-level to ensure the cure is administered to everyone who needs it? Or do we not stop until we conclude that the disease in question…

…of an inequality target and measure, but I do not share this critique as I have seen a policy focus on the poorest quintile achieve strong social change in countries like Brazil. My greatest disappointment in the report was the absence of any real narrative or theory of change for how the goals would work…