Partner & Invest
Institutional funders should not have to guess what a contribution buys. Each portfolio below states the ticket range, delivery horizon, verified outcome rates and the cost per person reached — before a single conversation begins.
Investment cases
Outcome rates are drawn from the institutional results framework and independently evaluated cohorts, not from projections.
Capitalises solar-powered water systems, sanitation infrastructure and community maintenance enterprises in drought-affected districts.
Blends incubation, mentorship and soft-loan capital to convert graduates and school leavers into employers.
Extends interoperable registries, event-based surveillance and geospatial modelling to additional ministries.
Micro-credit linkage, business advisory and leadership pathways for women-led enterprises and savings groups.
Contribution modelling
An indicative projection using the same unit economics the secretariat applies when budgeting a new award. Actual reach is confirmed against a co-designed results framework.
The model applies AAHRED's audited FY2025 programme expenditure ratio of 92.4%, meaning 92.4 cents of every dollar reaches direct delivery. Figures are indicative and not a contractual commitment.
USD 250,000
Indicative reach
15,500
people with year-round safe water
To direct delivery
USD 231,000
92.4% programme expenditure ratio
Partnership modalities
Framework agreements with ministries, national public health institutes and multilateral institutions, delivered through national systems with joint reporting.
Single-portfolio or multi-country grants with a costed results framework, quarterly narrative and financial reporting and an independent end-line evaluation.
Core support that allows the secretariat to invest in surge capacity, research infrastructure and rapid response ahead of restricted funding cycles.
First-loss, guarantee and concessional structures that crowd private capital into enterprise, water infrastructure and health-supply investments.
Co-principal-investigator arrangements with universities and research institutes, including shared authorship, data-sharing agreements and student placements.
Multi-year corporate social investment, employee engagement, technology in-kind contributions and matched-giving programmes.
Process
A predictable, documented pathway designed around institutional procurement and grant-approval cycles.
Week 1
Portfolio walkthrough, alignment against your strategy and confirmation of the funding window.
Week 2
Registration documents, audited statements, governance charters, safeguarding record and donor references released under NDA.
Weeks 3–4
Joint results framework, budget build-up, risk register and monitoring plan developed with your technical team.
Weeks 5–6
Grant or partnership agreement executed, inception workshop convened and baseline data collection begins.
Ecosystem
AAHRED works as a convener across sovereign, multilateral, academic and private capital, with consortium agreements governing data, authorship and accountability.
Tripartite operating model
Evidence generation translates into execution and delivery, which is in turn evaluated and governed — closing the loop between research, policy design, operations and accountability. Each arm is independently staffed and independently reported, so evaluation is never marked by the team that delivered the work.
Evidence generation, policy analytics and horizon scanning
Technical assistance, direct execution and capacity building
Accountability, systems strengthening and oversight
Programmatic lifecycle
Burden, equity and fiscal-space diagnostics using national datasets, geospatial layers and community consultation.
Costed intervention design with theory of change, indicator framework and explicit assumptions on attribution.
Controlled implementation with embedded measurement to test feasibility, unit economics and delivery risk.
Government-owned scale-up with SOPs, workforce training, procurement pathways and digital reporting rails.
Independent evaluation, public financial audit and open publication of results — including null findings.
Engagement matrix
Who AAHRED works with at each level of governance, what it delivers there, the legal instruments used and the cadence of reporting back to partners.
| Governance level | Core institutional clients | Key service offerings | Engagement instruments | Reporting cadence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continental & Multilateral | African Union, Africa CDC, UNECA, WHO AFRO, World Bank, Global Fund | Strategic framework development, regional public goods governance, cross-border treaty alignment and macro-level grant evaluation. | Framework agreements, technical secretariats, joint working groups | Multi-year (3–5 yrs) |
| Regional Economic Communities | EAC, IGAD, ECOWAS, SADC | Surveillance harmonisation, cross-border migration protocols and trade-related biosecurity standards. | Protocol harmonisation compacts, corridor surveillance MOUs | Annual review cycles |
| National Governments | Ministries of Health, Finance, Gender/Social Protection and Agriculture | Policy formulation, UHC benefit package design, fiscal space analysis and embedded ministerial technical assistance. | Embedded advisory placements, costed national plans, MoUs | Budget-cycle aligned |
| Sub-National & Local Governance | County and district health directorates, municipalities, local councils | Decentralised planning, budget execution tracking, frontline worker training and community engagement architecture. | County work plans, community compacts, frontline training grants | Quarterly |
Unlike academic think tanks producing non-operational papers, or NGOs executing without rigorous evaluation, AAHRED unifies theoretical rigour with frontline delivery.
Empirical research → policy drafting → pilot implementation → nationwide scale-up → independent impact evaluation.
Endogenous African data models accounting for informal economies, pastoralist mobility and customary governance systems overlooked by external consultancies.
Evaluation standards
OECD-DAC criteria
Financial reporting
IFRS + 2 CFR 200
Data protection
GDPR / national DPAs
Safeguarding
PSEAH policy, independent channel
