The Financing Alliance for Health 55d ago

At Skoll World Forum 2026, our Co‑CEO Soleine Scotney names a reality many social innovators know too well: there is no shortage of ideas that work — but too few ever make it to scale. In this reflection, Soleine explains why promising social innovations, especially those rooted at the grassroots, often succeed on a small scale but fail to shape national or regional systems. The issue is not ambition or creativity. It’s a broken bridge. While philanthropy, private sector actors, and social entrepreneurs fund and deliver innovation, governments — through Ministries of Health and Finance — are the only true purchasers of scale. Too often, these worlds are disconnected. Soleine unpacked four core barriers: Funding rarely reaches the frontline, where many innovations emerge Public financial management systems remain too rigid There is a mismatch between what governments know how to fund and what innovators are delivering A cultural divide persists between large public systems and fast‑moving innovators The solution? Finding the sweet spot where government, philanthropy, private sector, and social entrepreneurs work together — focused on outcomes, resourcing the frontline, and paying for what works. This is the conversation we need — if we are serious about moving from pilots to impact. #SkollWorldForum2026, #SocialInnovation, #ScalingImpact, #SystemsChange, #HealthFinancing, #PrimaryHealthCare, #GovernmentLedSolutions, #Philanthropy, #PublicFinancialManagement, #CommunityHealth, #GlobalHealth, #DevelopmentFinance, #SystemsThinking, #FinancingAllianceforHealth