We designed and successfully piloted the concept of deploying a privately sourced ‘stop-gap fund’ to maintain direct payments to staff and suppliers at carefully selected hospitals in the period between when an official aid grant expires and a new one is awarded.

The fund enabled three hospitals to continue delivering critically needed services, and us to demonstrate a model that can benefit not just these affected communities but the wider aid ecosystem through an innovative localisation strategy that supports local service providers that otherwise would never be able to receive direct grants.