1. Innovation Working Group Meeting
New York, April 25, 2012

2. Growing Business and Improving Women’s & Children’s Health
A Guide for Companies
Purpose • Tap potential of the private sector
• Trigger transformative partnerships around women’s
and children’s health : sustainable & scalable
Key
Messagess • Saving 16 million lives
s
• Identifying needs and opportunities
• Creating shared value around these needs
• Collective impact for transformative partnerships
• Next steps: focus on countries

3. Developing the Guide - Consultations & Key Events

4. Growing Business and Improving Women’s & Children’s Health
Different Industries Address Multiple Needs
The guide identifies:
•Specific opportunities/ health needs
•Specific examples/models
•Specific actors/partnerships

5. Growing Business and Improving Women’s & Children’s Health
Companies from different sectors create shared value
They do so through business models and philanthropy
• Reconceive products and markets
• Redefine value chains
• Strengthen local clusters
• Successful initiatives focus on companies’ core competencies…
• …but often need to address multiple gaps in the health landscape
simultaneously…
• …and involve partners from complementary industries and sectors

6. Examples of Transformative Partnerships:
Sustainable Business Models at Scale or Scaling Up

7. Growing Business and Improving Women’s & Children’s Health
Collective Impact Can Change the Economics,
Unlocking New Opportunities for Business
A vision for collective impact in women’s and children’s health

8. Growing business and improving women’s & children’s health
Next Practical Steps: Focus on Select Countries
Page 29 of the Guide: Key Questions & Useful Resources
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Identify opportunities
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Prioritize and build the business case
3
Explore partnership options

9. Thank you!