The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to be part of the Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child (GFF), launched on the sidelines of the Financing for Development conference, held July 13–16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

USAID is committing $50 million to the GFF through multi-year funding mechanisms, subject to Congressional approval. This funding will support the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania to scale up national strategies and efforts to end preventable child and maternal deaths. 

Ending preventable child and maternal deaths, a core goal for USAID, will require more than resources. It will also require a new model of development and innovative financing solutions. The GFF is a new financing approach among donors and host countries to accelerate efforts to end preventable newborn, child, adolescent and maternal deaths and improve the health and the quality of life of women, adolescents and children. It will focus on narrowing the financing gap by incentivizing countries to allocate a higher proportion of funding from the World Bank’s International Development Assistance concessional loans to maternal and child health spending.  Countries will also be assisted to develop strategies for sustainable financing and domestic resource mobilization. 

Learn more

• Follow @USAID and @USAIDGH on Twitter to learn more about the GFF and the Financing for Development conference
• Follow the conversation at #EWECisME, #FFD2015, #FFD3, and #Post2015
• Read the press release about the launch and funding
• Find out more about the GFF 
• Read more about Every Woman Every Child
• Check out the Financing for Development Conference agenda and other details 

Photo credit: Neil Brandvold for USAID