Global Health Financing - Who’s filling the gap?
Who is filling the global health financing gap when donor funding exits — and what will it take to build markets that don’t need permission to grow?
As capital shifts and donor dependency fades, African health innovators face a defining challenge: build solutions the market actually wants, or wait for funding that may never return. As part of IDIA’s collaboration with Villgro Africa’s podcast series Investing in Impact, host Moses Waweru sits down with David Saunders and Efosa Ojomo, speakers at the IDIA Global Summit in Nairobi, to explore how the changing investment landscape is reshaping health innovation across the continent.
The shift lies in designing for real demand, attracting the right kind of capital, and building systems that sustain themselves — not because donors require it, but because the market rewards it. From understanding how capital flows to recognising what makes innovation truly investable, the conversation reframes sustainability as a design choice, not a funding outcome.
The question was never who funds the solution. It’s whether the solution creates enough value to fund itself.
In This Episode:
Who steps in when donor funding exits — and what that means for health innovation
Why not all capital fits every context, and how to find the right fit
What it takes to build markets that grow without permission
How to design for demand, not dependency
Meet the Guests
David Saunders, Director of Strategy and Growth at Briter
Efosa Ojomo, Director of Global Prosperity at the Clayton Christensen Institute
