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Emily Bancroft is President of VillageReach, an organization that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. VillageReach won the Skoll Award in 2006. Its initiative in Malawi, Chipatala cha pa Foni, a toll-free hotline that provides health and nutrition information to people in remote communities, is an international model for closing rural healthcare gaps. VillageReach recently transitioned Chipatala cha pa Foni successfully to the Malawian Ministry of Health which has made the service its primary platform for COVD-19 information. James Nardella, former Skoll Foundation Principal and current Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health, sat down with Emily in April of 2019 to talk about her personal journey to this work, why government partnerships are a crucial lever for systems change, and her vision for global health equity.

Emily Bancroft is President of VillageReach, an organization that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. VillageReach won the Skoll Award in 2006. Its initiative in Malawi, Chipatala cha pa Foni, a toll-free hotline that provides health and nutrition information to people in remote communities, is an international model for closing rural healthcare gaps. <br><br>VillageReach recently transitioned Chipatala cha pa Foni successfully to the Malawian Ministry of Health which has made the service its primary platform for COVD-19 information. James Nardella, former Skoll Foundation Principal and current Chief Program Officer for Last Mile Health, sat down with Emily in April of 2019 to talk about her personal journey to this work, why government partnerships are a crucial lever for systems change, and her vision for global health equity.

Emily Bancroft on What Health Equity Looks Like

Dave talks with Emily Bancroft, CEO of the Seattle-based nonprofit VillageReach. Her organization has started using drones to deliver vaccines, medicine and lab results to rural clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  But the technology, while efficient and effective, is costly - and how do residents know that the drones are bringing life-saving drugs rather than being used as weapons of war?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

<p>Dave talks with Emily Bancroft, CEO of the Seattle-based nonprofit VillageReach.</p> <p>Her organization has started using drones to deliver vaccines, medicine and lab results to rural clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. </p> <p>But the technology, while efficient and effective, is costly - and how do residents know that the drones are bringing life-saving drugs rather than being used as weapons of war?</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

Emily Bancroft, Delivering Life-Saving Vaccines With Drones

For the past 20 years, VillageReach has kept its vision of improving access to quality healthcare in some of the world’s hardest to reach communities, continually evolving and adapting its relationships to achieve this vision. Now led by Emily Bancroft, VillageReach has prioritized the organization’s collaboration with and support of local governments as a key pathway to create and scale sustainable impact at what it calls “the last mile” (i.e., where community-level healthcare is consumed). In this episode of CASE in Point, you will hear Emily discuss VillageReach’s evolution in understanding how to best contribute to the systems-level change it was seeking.  She shares tactics that VillageReach uses to work effectively with government, including: Adapting to Government Systems Identifying how your proof of concept model might need to evolve to meet the shape of the current government systems, including its infrastructure and incentives.  How can you design solutions that can ultimately be absorbed within the local systems? Minimizing Risk for Government Partners Given the many priorities and demands placed on government, often with only limited budget, social ventures can play a key role in absorbing some of the risk of testing out new methodologies.  Emily shares how VillageReach works to help minimize risk for its government partners while pursuing innovative solutions together. Managing Trade-offs Most social ventures strive to achieve the key elements of impact, scale, and sustainability—but with the knowledge that there are usually trade-offs between the three. Emily discusses how VillageReach has pursued all three, and where it made strategic decisions to sacrifice one for the benefit of the other. Formalizing Partnership Structures Emily speaks to some of the ways in which partnerships can be formalized and maintained, such as developing MOU’s to clearly define the relationship, developing toolkits to support process, and identifying internal champions to help move the work forward. If you are enjoying the CASE in Point podcast, please leave a review on Apple podcasts, Google play, and Stitcher and share with your network. VillageReach is one of the many organizations we interviewed as a part of the Scaling Pathways series in partnership with the USAID Global Development Lab, the Skoll Foundation, and Mercy Corps.  The Scaling Pathways series includes case studies on organizations that have scaled well and deep dives on topics around finance and government partnerships. You can learn more and read the studies at https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/.

<p><a href="https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/03/Episode-4-Emily-Bancroft.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>For the past 20 years, VillageReach has kept its vision of improving access to quality healthcare in some of the world’s hardest to reach communities, continually evolving and adapting its relationships to achieve this vision. Now led by Emily Bancroft, VillageReach has prioritized the organization’s collaboration with and support of local governments as a key pathway to create and scale sustainable impact at what it calls “the last mile” (i.e., where community-level healthcare is consumed).</p> <p>In this episode of <a href="https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/case-news/case-in-point/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CASE in Point</a>, you will hear Emily discuss VillageReach’s evolution in understanding how to best contribute to the systems-level change it was seeking.  She shares tactics that VillageReach uses to work effectively with government, including:</p> <h2><strong>Adapting to Government Systems</strong></h2> <p>Identifying how your proof of concept model might need to evolve to meet the shape of the current government systems, including its infrastructure and incentives.  How can you design solutions that can ultimately be absorbed within the local systems?</p> <h2><strong>Minimizing Risk for Government Partners</strong></h2> <p>Given the many priorities and demands placed on government, often with only limited budget, social ventures can play a key role in absorbing some of the risk of testing out new methodologies.  Emily shares how VillageReach works to help minimize risk for its government partners while pursuing innovative solutions together.</p> <h2><strong>Managing </strong><b>Trade-offs</b></h2> <p>Most social ventures strive to achieve the key elements of impact, scale, and sustainability—but with the knowledge that there are usually trade-offs between the three. Emily discusses how VillageReach has pursued all three, and where it made strategic decisions to sacrifice one for the benefit of the other.</p> <h2><strong>Formalizing Partnership Structures</strong></h2> <p>Emily speaks to some of the ways in which partnerships can be formalized and maintained, such as developing MOU’s to clearly define the relationship, developing toolkits to support process, and identifying internal champions to help move the work forward.</p> <p>If you are enjoying the CASE in Point podcast, please leave a review on Apple podcasts, Google play, and Stitcher and share with your network.</p> <p>VillageReach is one of the many organizations we interviewed as a part of the <a href="https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scaling Pathways series</a> in partnership with the <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/GlobalDevLab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USAID Global Development Lab</a>, the <a href="http://skoll.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skoll Foundation</a>, and <a href="https://www.mercycorps.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mercy Corps</a>.  The Scaling Pathways series includes case studies on organizations that have scaled well and deep dives on topics around finance and government partnerships. You can learn more and read the studies at <a href="https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/</a>.</p>

Emily Bancroft: Government Partnerships, Impact vs. Costs