WHEN STORY

The Women’s Health and Economic Empowerment Network (WHEN) was established to create a streamlined financial platform to align leaders from various G7 government agencies, UN Institutions, private sector partners, philanthropists, and others with a shared goal of improving women’s access to capital and healthcare across the globe. The WHEN platform designs and scales solutions to address challenges in in health, education, agriculture, and entrepreneurship.

WHEN’s mission is to help organizations achieve meaningful and sustainable outcomes by scaling their existing efforts through innovative financing mechanisms. Despite the efforts taken by many low-and-middle income countries to improve healthcare at a population level, there remains substantial gaps in financing these policies.

What sets WHEN apart is its approach to sustainable funding and its commitment to supporting innovative solutions for global challenges and its ability to help programs identify and source alternative funding platforms. The Secretariat of WHEN, CGHD started creating and cultivating these platforms in 2017 after recognizing that many global health initiatives failed as a result of insufficient, reduced, or cancelled grant-only funding (the current SDG financing gap stands at an astounding USD 3.9 trillion).

In addition to designing and scaling solutions, WHEN works to identify, leverage, and connect projects to a wide range of alternative sources for funding. This includes lending from private sector finances, angel investors, development financial institutions, venture capital firms, and philanthropists.