Current investments across Africa
While most of ELMA's philanthropy is focused on individual countries within Africa, some investments are structured to have broader impact across the continent.
The ELMA Foundation
Project support, in the form of a partially recoverable grant, to establish the Acumen Educational Facility for East Africa, which will invest in and support education businesses improving access to quality education for poor and low-income families
Investment in a private equity fund that aims to drive meaningful public health improvements by investing in technologies targeted towards low and middle income countries
General support for an organization supporting African organizations, governments, and ECD networks to design and roll out out best ECD practices, policies, and tools
Project support to build Sentinel, a disease surveillance and pandemic prevention system, across Nigeria and West Africa
Investment in a mobile health wallet platform that links participants, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers to provide fast, efficient, and transparent treatment and payment
Project support to strengthen pediatric and adolescent HIV service delivery through technical support in high-burden countries, coordination of global tools and best practices, and accelerated access to pediatric formulations of anti-retroviral therapies
Project support to assist the Ministries of Health and Finance in developing investment cases and securing funding for building the health workforce
Project support to coordinate Unfinished Business initiative to scale effective pediatric and adolescent HIV case finding, ART linkage strategies, improve care and treatment models, and lead development of an investment case for national scale
Project support for the Foundational Fund, a pooled fund for systems-change investments in the areas of health, education, and economic opportunity in the developing world
Investment in a biotechnology company that focuses on using messenger RNA to develop new therapeutics and vaccines
General support for an organization that works with governments, donors, and the private sector to address financing challenges to scaling and sustaining primary and community health programs
Loan Notes Investment in a not-for-profit company that aims to provide affordable, quality rapid diagnostic tests to low- and middle-income countries by performing the complete value chain from R&D to regulatory approval and manufacturing, and establishing partnerships to produce tests throughout Africa
GroFin SGB is a debt fund focusing on small growing businesses in high-impact sectors across Africa. Their investment is coupled with strong business support services to give the underlying company the best change to become sustainable.
Investment in a private equity fund that targets both a financial and social return by investing in private healthcare companies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Project support for 11 pediatric surgery fellowships and the renovation and equipping of 10 pediatric surgical operating units
General support for an organization that improves the safety of surgery and anesthesia in low-resource settings, through the provision of essential equipment and training
General support to an Africa-led foundation that provides grants and capacity strengthening support to community-based organizations delivering critical services to children across Africa
Investment in a fund that provides loans, alongside local banks, to healthcare providers serving poor and underserved communities. All borrowers participate in a quality improvement program aimed at increasing the quality of services offered by the provider.
General support for a digital health organization leading the development and scale-up of the Community Health Toolkit, a software platform that supports community health workers in delivering care to children and families
Investment in an education technology company that creates interactive e-learning content and resources for primary school students and teachers
Co-funding initiative with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Virgin Unite, and an anonymous donor: Project support to 1) make progress towards trachoma elimination in 14 African countries via an integrated NTD program and 2) conduct an RCT to reduce child mortality and inform trachoma elimination strategies
Investment in a private company that has established a chain of affordable primary schools reaching a market segment that currently has few quality options. SPARK uses a blended learning model with highly trained teachers and technology to keep costs under control.
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support for the Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative to transition its postgraduate training to a blended learning platform, provide African Paediatric Fellowship Programme (APFP) nursing scholarships, and build pediatric nurse training and clinical capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support to strengthen the African Paediatric Fellowship Program to train pediatric specialists from peer universities and provide support to strengthen child health services and in-country training
Project support to scale-up a regional pediatric anesthesia training network across five African countries, with the goal of graduating 38 new pediatric anesthesiologists and training over 500 non-physician anesthesia providers in pediatric anesthesia
Project support for the management of the WHO's Global Accelerator for Pediatric Formulations (GAP-f) network, which aims to accelerate access to safe, effective, quality, affordable pediatric medicines
Project support to expand Zvandiri (a peer-led comprehensive service delivery model that supports children, adolescents, and young people living with HIV) to five countries, while adapting the model to include virtual training and mentorship that allows for effective scale-up during COVID-19 and beyond
The ELMA Relief Foundation
Project support to map one billion currently unmapped people, to better target humanitarian and other interventions
Project support in the form of a matching grant for expanding the volume and types of medical commodities, supplies, and equipment stocked and deployed by WHO's Emergency Hub in Nairobi, Kenya
The ELMA Growth Foundation
Project support for providing financial aid to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and for a program to link alumni to careers in public health
Participation in a syndicated finance facility to cover short-term working capital needs
Project support to deliver financial training, expand local value chain financing, and support revenue growth and market access of agricultural SMEs