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Kati Collective works at the intersection of women, digital, and partnerships. In all of our engagements, we apply a gender lens, thinking strategically about how to engage men and boys while concurrently supporting women and girls in LMICs.

How We Approach Creating Change

Women
A study by the International Center for Research on Women found that when a woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes, her illness and death begin a chain of loss that harms her children’s health, education, and future opportunities as well as devastating her loved ones and deepening household poverty. The economic and human costs of maternal death are truly a price too high to bear. At Kati Collective, we know that when women are able to remain healthy and contribute financially, economies grow and generations of lives are bettered.

Digital
Digital tools and data analytics are becoming pervasive in every corner of the globe. The potential is great for these innovations to impact everything from providing real-time accessible health, education, agricultural, and financial data to charting human migratory patterns and monitoring disease outbreaks.

These solutions, however, are currently inundating host countries with disconnected results, contributing to a confused digital landscape. Kati Collective can be the glue which mends this fragmentation and lack of coordination which is all-too-common across development. Further, we understand that many of the innovations that are working on the ground right now are not necessarily on the radar of large, international stakeholders. We work along this entire continuum—small grassroots organizations to global multilaterals—talking with and involving global donors and social entrepreneurs in actionable, realistic solutions.

Partnerships
Partnerships have been elevated to the level of having their own Sustainable Development Goal (Goal #17: focused on finance, technology, capacity building, trade, and systemic issues). We need to think beyond the early iterations of public-private partnerships and look to unconventional alliances. We believe in employing a social entrepreneurship lens and approaching partnerships with the goal of aligning agendas to move some of our toughest issues forward collectively.

Services

Program Strategy & Development

Digital strategic and programmatic approaches, including creating sustainable digital programs, understanding end users, connecting with the broader digital ecosystem, and integrating digital and analog approaches to address social impact issues
Programmatic design, scale, and sustainability strategies, and implementation plans
Partnership strategy, development, and terms of reference/governance support, including early stage catalytic support and problem solving for existing partnerships

Sustainable Business Planning

Social enterprise business model creation, scale, resource mobilization, and sustainability planning
Insights and development of “global goods” tools, knowledge sharing, and resources which benefit broader development-focused ecosystems
Interim leadership during organizational transitions

Human-Centered Approach to Technology

Resource mobilization including identifying key audiences across sectors, developing targeted value propositions, and strategic advisory
Digital behavior change research, programmatic strategy, and implementation support

Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation

Targeted stakeholder engagement event strategy, board engagement, agenda creation, and facilitation
Thought partnership resource for leaders

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Case Studies

We work with organizations spanning local grassroots organizations on the ground in LMICs to national foundations to multinational corporations and think tanks. We go where our expertise will make a difference.

The Maternity Foundation

The Maternity Foundation works to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in LMICs by empowering skilled birth attendants (SBAs) to provide a safer birth for mothers and newborns everywhere. Their main digital focus has been the creation and dissemination of the Safe Delivery App. Over a period of six months, Kati Collective worked with the Maternity Foundation to facilitate the foundation’s transition into becoming a more robust, scaled, and sustainable capacity-building program for SBAs, including helping staff and leadership to develop solutions so they would feel committed to the results.

As the Maternity Foundation partners with governments, philanthropy, NGOs, and multilaterals, this project was an opportunity for Kati to delve more deeply into the digital for MNCH ecosystem. The resulting sustainability plan will help the Foundation grow and create a durable, widespread program to support more women in more countries.

“Kirsten Gagnaire has unparalleled experience in the emerging field of digital for maternal and newborn health space. She was instrumental in helping our organization understand, on a deeper level, the key stakeholders in the field. Kirsten possesses the unique ability to distill her experience and knowledge into concrete recommendations—which provided helpful guidance as we developed a sustainability strategy.”

—Tara Talvacchia, Manager, Strategy & Partnerships

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kati Collective partnered with the Vaccine Delivery team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support their role in the digital health ecosystem and collaborate with key stakeholders on developing a Country Readiness Assessment Tool for an Electronic Immunization Registry (EIR) implementation. We conducted a landscape analysis of existing digital health assessment tools, facilitated a workshop of key stakeholders (WHO, PAHO, ERO, CDC, GAVI, UNICEF, PATH, BMGF) to align on the assessment tool criteria and early implementation strategy, and are providing ongoing support for finalization, testing, and early implementation.

In parallel, we engaged with the Vaccine Delivery team’s newly revised digital strategy to provide thought partnership on strategy refinement and actionability in the areas of an innovative digital health marketplace, country readiness, and ecosystem alignment. Kati is creating a framework for a marketplace development process with a three-year development and implementation timeline to include key investment points in the process.

“We selected Kati Collective as we worked through our immunization digital strategy to help us articulate and focus our framework, and as our work evolved, Kati has been able to take own new roles supporting critical Gavi Alliance partners, such as CDC, to provide critical thinking and linkages between immunization-specific needs to broader digital health efforts and trends. We value their ability to connect and think within immunization and across the sector as we work to operationalize our strategy.”
— Kaleb Brownlow, Program Officer, Develop & Scale Vaccine Delivery

Global Financing Facility

As the largest financing facility for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health, and nutrition, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) is dedicated to large-scale, highly stakeholder-inclusive approaches to bettering the lives of women, children, and adolescents across the globe.

Kati Collective is providing support to GFF’s newly formed Monitoring and Evaluation team. This work has included spending weeks in Tanzania at all levels of health facilities to conduct and assessment and subsequent recommendations on data use and data quality.

We are also working with the Nigerian government on finalizing their Investment Case for the GFF and development of a monitoring framework, which included obtaining a broad set of government agency input and support. In addition, we continue to offer support to the GFF team on issues related to digital health and private sector engagement.

Our clients include:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Digital Square at PATH
Global Financing Facility/World Bank
Global Health Visions and City Cancer Challenge
The Heart Fund
Maternity Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
UN Foundation