Who are our delivery partners?
The Foundation believes that local communities, civil society, and government partners are best positioned to understand and address the rights, needs, and aspirations of their communities. Our delivery partners primarily include local, regional, and national governments, whose knowledge and capabilities we respect, recognise, and support to establish sustainable eye care services.
Working collaboratively with governments, the private sector, civil society, and international organisations is essential for creating the conditions and structural changes necessary for effective, people-centred, sustainable, long-term change. By harnessing the combined knowledge, skills, resources, and experience of our partners, we achieve greater impacts than we could working alone.
What do our partners deliver?
Our partners are integral to the success of our mission and the sustainability of any impacts. We support them to add or enhance eye health related activities within their existing strategies and priorities. They take on prominent roles in program management and delivery. As service providers, they perform crucial work such as surgeries, training, screenings, and research, supported by our funds, technical expertise and networks.
We work with our partners to uphold the highest standards in program and clinical quality. Together, we strive to deliver impactful eye health services and strengthen local systems, with the overarching goal of ending avoidable blindness.
Surgery and eye health interventions
Training
Integration of eye health into community health programs
Screenings
Sustainable financing of eye health
Insurance, medical procurement processes and hospital funding
Research and innovation
Community engagement
We help our partners excel
Here's how we strengthen our partners:
Our partnership principles
Our partnership principles are central to our engagement with partners. They help overcome challenges, continuing adaptive programming, strategic integration and building strong relationships.
Trust
Flexibility
Accountability
Mutual respect
Collaboration
Transparency
Learning
Commitments and shared goals
Advocacy impact
We take a coordinated and evidence-based approach to engage governments at the national level, international organisations, and decision-makers to achieve sustainable change. Here are some examples:
Kenya
The Foundation has collaborated with the Ophthalmic Services Unit, Council of Governors, and Health NGOs Network to push for more domestic investment in eye health. We've influenced laws that allow county hospitals to keep and use their revenue, which will strengthen public health systems, including eye care, once enacted by county assemblies.
Rwanda
Our advocacy through health financing projects has improved support and funding for eye health at all levels. The Government of Rwanda's contribution to eye health spending increased from 29% in 2017/18 to 36% in 2020/21, boosting sustainability and local ownership.
Tanzania
We are working to make the national health insurance system fairer, as it currently doesn't cover comprehensive eye care. Our key partner has engaged with officials, leading to pledges to address these insurance gaps for eye health.
Providing hope in sight
We helped our partners implement a sight-saving project in three provinces across Vietnam to screen and educate people about eye health. Provincial Eye Hospitals in Da Nang, Quang Nam and Tien Giang served as implementing partners, screening people’s eyes to detect some of the most common conditions causing vision impairment.
The Foundation supported provincial governments for over two years, focusing on cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and refractive error, the project:
36,000
People screened
9,750
Referred for follow-up treatment
1,100
Vulnerable people supported
1,000,000+
Educated on eye health in local areas
Thank you delivery partners
In 2023 we worked with countless partners and stakeholders – we thank them for their passion and valued contributions to reducing avoidable blindness.
The great challenges are not really personal challenges: How much can I do? – The great challenges are what structures can I help set in place that will alter things?
