Impact in Health is a mission-driven platform designed to strengthen the influence of community-led innovations in the shaping of health systems and policies across Africa. We firmly believe that lasting change begins at the local level: homegrown initiatives often provide a model for sustainability precisely because they leverage lived experience, local ingenuity, and trusted stakeholders to design scalable, evidence-based solutions. At Impact in Health, we work to help community-based actors realize their full potential - and to amplify their voices so that their successes can inform health policy and practice at national, regional, and global levels.
“Lasting change happens when people drive their own transformation.”— WHO’s Community Engagement Framework quality, people-centred and resilient health services (2024)
At Impact in Health, we believe that sustainable progress in global health begins by listening to — and elevating — the people closest to the challenges.
Our Work
Across Africa, community organisations, women’s groups, youth leaders, health workers, and grassroots innovators are already designing solutions that work. Yet their insights rarely reach national or global policy tables. Our work is built around bringing these solutions forward, strengthening them, and transforming them into influence. We do this through three interconnected streams that reinforce one another and ensure that community voices shape the future of health systems:
Amplifying Community-Based Solutions communities as change-makers — not just beneficiaries. We identify, document and amplify grassroots health solutions with media and podcast platforms.
We take what works on the ground and bring it to those who shape systems. Governments, donors and NGOs seek us out because we translate community-level innovation into policy language.
We believe that sustainable change begins with strong local leadership and locally driven innovation. Through training, mentorship, and partnerships, we support community-based organisations and innovators to strengthen their capacity to lead, develop, and scale solutions that improve health systems.