USAID's Inclusive Health Access Prize
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The Problem
Despite many years of commitments from national governments and global health partners to improve access to and quality of primary health care, vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) continue to face barriers to achieving better health outcomes.
In 2019, many LMIC health systems remain under-resourced and over-burdened, leaving many people without access to quality basic health care services. With the partnership of private and civil society, including faith-based and community partners, working alongside LMIC public health systems, USAID is able to optimally support countries as they work to meet health goals.
About the Prize
USAID’s Office of Health Systems recognizes that optimal health systems ensure that people receive the health care they need in ways they trust without having to pay too much or travel too far. The private commercial sector, small and women-owned businesses, and civil society can provide new approaches that break down barriers to accessing health services and optimize health systems. In turn, a strengthened health system can deliver better health outcomes at lower cost and help counteract the negative effects of poor economic conditions on health. This helps USAID-supported partner countries on their journey toward self-reliance.
USAID's Inclusive Health Access Prize is a global call for proven successes in expanding access to life-saving basic health care in low- and middle-income countries. This prize will recognize and incentivize work that demonstrates how integration and partnership between public and private sector expands access to affordable, accountable, and reliable health services for poor and vulnerable groups. The aim is also to celebrate and spur a broad range of approaches that are sustainable, scalable, and replicable.
USAID will spotlight and facilitate access to funding and other support so proven models can obtain maximum reach and impact. Learn more about the incentives for this prize below.
Why Participate?
USAID’s Office of Health Systems will award $150,000 in prizes for innovative, privately-led approaches with strong scale-up potential that have helped expand access to affordable, accountable, and reliable health services for poor and vulnerable groups.
All finalists will be showcased on this website, as well as in other forums.
Up to six winners will be announced at a United Nations General Assembly event in September 2019 and each will be awarded $25,000 in funding under USAID’s Innovation Incentive Award Authority. These awards are issued as funds transfers to bank accounts and all award monies may be used at the winning teams’ discretion.
One representative from each winning team will represent their team at the United Nations General Assembly event to showcase their leadership, diversity, and potential in the global health field for other leading stakeholders and donors.
- Accessible: Health care is available when and where people need it and can use it.
- Accountable: Society as a whole works together to ensure that health care meets people’s needs.
- Affordable: Money spent on health care provides the best value possible.
- Reliable: Quality health care is delivered in a timely manner that promotes dignity and respect for all patients and providers.
Further information and examples can be found here.
- Full Prize Call - all information about the prize
- Submission Process - a walk-through of the submission process
- Eligibility Criteria - who can enter
- Judging Criteria - what the judges will be looking for
- Terms and Conditions - applicants must agree before submitting their entry
- FAQs - frequently asked questions
- USAID’s Bureau of Global Health’s Health System Strengthening—A Compendium of Indicators, which will help competitors communicate their work to date in a framework consistent with how USAID understands evidence and results. All competitors are encouraged to disaggregate indicators by gender.
- USAID’s Office of Health Systems Strengthening website, which describes the team’s priorities, goals, and message.
- USAID’s Local Systems: A Framework for Supporting Sustained Development, which provides guidance on how to sustainably embed international development programming in local systems.
The information provided on this website is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.