01. Jul 2021

WDF funds nine new projects in the first half of 2021

WDF funds nine new projects in the first half of 2021

Gwendolyn Carleton
The projects include responses to urgent global issues, new partnerships and innovative approaches to diabetes prevention and financing.
Learnings from past partnerships in Assam, India, created the foundation for WDF20-1772, one of the ambitious new projects supported by WDF this year.

WDF’s first new partnerships of 2021 are a wide-ranging and ambitious group. Two address the urgent global issues of COVID-19 and humanitarian crises. Some, such as the project in Lesotho, mark the Foundation’s first partnership in the country  , while others, such as the Phase II project in Palestine, build on long-term relationships and learnings. 

Still other projects, in Canada and India, represent innovative new approaches to diabetes prevention and financing for diabetes care.

Seen together the projects reflect WDF’s new strategy, with its increased focus on diabetes care at the primary level and primary prevention targeting pregnant women and children. They also reflect the Foundation’s transition toward fewer but larger scale projects.

New projects signed in the first half of 2021

Canada  

WDF20-1795 

Indigenous Diabetes Reduction Bond - Canada
India

WDF20-1796

India Storytelling Lab
India

WDF20-1772

Strengthening diabetes and hypertension services in Assam
Jordan

WDF21-1825

COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings
Lebanon

WDF20-1797

Advancing an integrated NCD-humanitarian response in Lebanon
Lesotho

WDF20-1778

Improving community and facility-based diabetes care in rural Lesotho
Malaysia

WDF19-1696

Optimising gestational weight gain for prevention of GDM in Malaysia
Palestine

WDF20-1767

Palestine National Diabetes Programme - Phase II
Sudan

WDF19-1716

Development and Implementation of a Pediatric Diabetes Team Education Program, Sudan