The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) have agreed to renew their strategic collaborative agreement to support the scaling of health innovations to the end of 2023 to jointly accelerate health impact.  

The collaboration was established in the beginning of 2021 to create a shared agenda and enable close collaboration and complementarity between the two entities to promote and facilitate the demand, supply, assessment, and scale-up of health innovations for the benefit of low- and middle-income countries.

Collaboration between IDIA members and WHO covers the following five areas: Innovation Demand; Innovation Supply; Innovation Assessment; Innovation Scale-up; and Innovation Scaling Skill Development.

WHO supports Member States to link impactful innovations to where they are most needed in countries. Given IDIA’s unique experience and status as a key collaboration platform for innovation funders around the world, the collaboration accelerates collective impact in tackling the greatest challenges in global health.