IPPF commits to pilot a three-year program to support its MAs to increase their financial resilience. The program will enable MAs to explore how social enterprise approaches can be used as a means of financing health service delivery. By the end of the pilot, IPPF hopes to increase its funding from social enterprises by 5%.
The program has three components:
Component One will support MAs to strengthen the commitment of their boards, staff, and volunteers to adopt innovative financing models and ensure they have the institutional, organizational, and human capacity to diversify their income sources through social enterprise. This component will include a comprehensive self-assessment process that will allow MAs to determine their commitment to making the requisite cultural and operational changes. To ensure MAs can build the commitment and buy-in needed, the program will provide grants for capacity building and South-South exchanges between MAs. The program will ensure that MAs are aware of the requirements, risks, and opportunities associated with implementing social enterprise approaches and support the sharing of knowledge, tools, and resources using an online platform.
Component Two will support MAs to become investment-ready by providing them with training on business idea generation and grants to fund the technical assistance needed to build sound business plans. To implement this component, IPPF will partner with Acumen and EY. Acumen will contribute its technical expertise and experience for the design of the social enterprise training program, focused on idea generation and business modeling. The training will be structured as a five-module, six week long course, providing participants with the opportunity to complete hands-on, step-by-step exercises that help them generate early stage ideas for social enterprises and gain awareness of key considerations and target milestones they should hope to reach. All individuals that complete the full course will receive a Statement of Accomplishment from Acumen. EY will contribute technical assistance in investment readiness and business development, including support for conducting market assessments.
Component Three will allow IPPF, with support from partners, to structure, raise, and manage a $3.7 million fund that will support MAs to secure preferential loans that will match their own investments in establishing social enterprises. Investing for Good will contribute its technical expertise for the initial feasibility assessment of an IPPF social enterprise investment fund.
IPPF will contribute a leadership team, drawn from staff and volunteers and will fund the program design phase and initial activities (documentation of lessons learned through early experiences with social enterprises, testing the technical assistance approach for investment readiness, testing the use of grants for enterprise growth) for a group of five MAs in Bolivia, Colombia, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. As additional funding becomes available, IPPF will support at least 25 more MAs from diverse geographical regions with technical assistance, grants, and loans by the end of year three, with a view to expanding access to the program to all MAs in the Federation.
The action plan and milestones for each component will include the following:
PROGRAM DESIGN/INCEPTION
(A) Raise awareness / launch the Social Enterprise Acceleration Program for target beneficiaries (158 MAs).
-Communication program ready to launch by January 20, 2016
(B) Broker key partnerships for program implementation, including funding and service providers for fund management, communications, and online knowledge sharing platform.
-Key technical partnerships in place and TORs under discussion and commitments for 60% of program value by December 31, 2015.
-All technical partnerships in place and TORs under discussion by June 30, 2016. Commitments for 100% of program value by June 30, 2016.
COMPONENT ONE
(1.1.) Online sharing platform is launched by October 2016.
(1.2.) Select and contract with MAs (total of 15) to receive grants under Component One.
-Applications from MAs for first round of grants received by June 15, 2016 and selection confirmed by August 1, 2016. Seven MAs sign grant agreements and begin work by signed by September 30, 2016
-Applications from MAs for second round of grants received by June 15, 2017 and selection confirmed by August 1, 2017. Eight MAs sign grant agreements and begin work by signed by September 30, 2017
COMPONENT TWO
(2.1) Launch training program on social enterprise.
-Program is launched for registration by February15, 2016.
(2.2) Monitor progress of online training program registration.
-Total of 1,000 MA staff and volunteers registered for the course by June 30, 2016.
-Total of 2,000 MA staff and volunteers registered for the course by March 31, 2017
-Total of 3,300 MA staff and volunteers registered for the course by April 30, 2018.
(2.3) Select and contract with MAs (total of 20) to receive grants under Component 2.
-Pilot Group: Selection confirmed and pilot group of five MAs are invited to negotiate grant agreement by October 30, 2015. Five MAs sign grant agreements and begin work by November 30, 2015
-Round One: Applications from MAs for first round of grants received by June 15, 2016 and selection confirmed by August 1, 2016. Seven MAs sign grant agreements and begin work by signed by September 30, 2016.
-Round Two: Applications from MAs for second round of grants received by June 15, 2017 and selection confirmed by August 1, 2017. Eight MAs sign grant agreements and begin work by signed by September 30, 2017
COMPONENT THREE
(3.1) Select and contract with MAs (total of 15) to receive loans under Component 3.
-Applications from MAs for first round of loans received by March 1, 2017 and selection confirmed by July 1, 2017. 15 MAs sign loan agreements and begin work by signed by September 30, 2017