Social Innovation in Health Initiative
Overview
The Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) is a network of partner institutions and a community of stakeholders established in 2014 through TDR’s leadership. The Initiative aims to unlock the capacity of all health system actors and stakeholders, including innovators, communities, policy-makers, frontline workers, private sectors and academics, to work in collaboration and advance community-engaged social innovation in health care delivery in the Global South. This is pursued through:
- research to best understand what works, what doesn’t, and how to sustain, replicate or scale up social innovations;
- capacity strengthening to ensure that countries in the Global South take the lead in the promotion of and research on social innovation; and
- advocacy to catalyse a global culture change and influence the health agenda at the local, national, regional and global levels.
The network has expanded to engage low- and middle-income countries where SIHI country hubs have been established, at the University of Malawi, Makerere University in Uganda, University of the Philippines Manilla, the Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM) in Colombia and the Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH) in China. In 2020 these hubs partnered with research institutions to establish additional social innovation hubs in Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Rwanda.
Key facts
To date more than 288 social innovations have been identified in low- and middle-income countries, and 40+ case studies have been conducted.
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