Diabetes Investment Accelerator

The Diabetes Investment Accelerator (DIA) has been developed by WDF to explore, implement and scale innovative financing mechanisms to address the growing burden of diabetes and related NCDs in low- and middle income countries.

Our current portfolio

Visionary Care

Payment-by-Results initiative designed to improve the early detection, prevention, and management of diabetes and diabetic eye complications in Armenia. By leveraging AI to streamline diagnosis, screening, and treatment, this program aims to deliver significant cost savings and better health outcomes.

Last Mile Care

Health start-up that is committed to transforming healthcare access for industrial workers in India. This is done by establishing one-stop-shop physical and digital centers strategically located near or at workplaces. By integrating physical presence with digital solutions, it provides affordable preventive healthcare services tailored to the specific needs of this often-overlooked group and their families through employer programmes.

Indigenous Diabetes Impact Bond

Social Impact Bond addressing type 2 diabetes in six Canadian Indigenous communities, using private investments to fund community-driven health solutions. With government payments tied to measurable outcomes, the SIB offers a scalable and effective approach to tackling health challenges in marginalised communities.

The Challenge

 

  • 589 million adults are living with diabetes worldwide, 80% live in LMICs.

  • Globally, 86.9% of all undiagnosed cases of diabetes are in low and middle-income countries.

  • Diabetes and NCDs has a profound effect on a country's productivity, health systems, individual households, and human capital.

  • An additional investment of USD 0.90 per person could prevent or delay up to 80% of all NCD, saving 7 million lives and USD 230 billion in economic benefits.

  • The gap to realize the SDGs has risen to >4 trillion USD.

  • The majority of global capital is not geared towards SDGs.

How the Diabetes Investment Accelerator works

The Accelerator serves as an intermediary, supplementing traditional grant-giving models with innovative financing mechanisms to accelerate investments in prevention and access to care for people living with diabetes and related NCDs.

Through the Accelerator, we provide access to funding, generate knowledge, develop investment cases, nurture a project pipeline, and build a strong alliance of impact-first organisations, investors, and other change-makers.

Our Objective

 

DIA has been developed to explore and deploy innovative financing mechanisms as means to mobilise capital to scale up financing for prevention and access to care for diabetes and related NCDs in low- and middle-income countries

Our Impact Indicators

 

  • Increased number of people living with diabetes diagnosed and under treatment

  • Strengthened availability and delivery of care for diabetes and related NCDs

  • Increased availability of opportunities for healthy living and healthy pregnancies (ex

Our Approach

 

  • Build knowledge around impact-first financing and investing

  • Co-develop and deploy concrete investment cases with partners

  • Build a global alliance of partners to accelerate new financing models

Our Investment Criteria

Accessibility

Enhance availability and delivery of care

Availability of opportunities for healthy living and healthy pregnancies

Affordability

Provide affordable options for care and prevention focusing on lower income groups and people living in vulnerable situations

Quality

Seek opportunities to enhance quality care or preventive measures

Scale and sustainability

Prefer tested models and initiatives, ready to scale or innovative initiatives with a clear ambition and opportunity for scale, including financial sustainability

DIA team

Kirza Buch Kristensen
Director, Business Development and Strategy
+45 30 77 51 46
kzbk@worlddiabetesfoundation.org

Anders Bager
Senior Project Manager
+45 34 44 09 16
gnea@worlddiabetesfoundation.org

Cansu Ünalan
Project Manager
+45 34 44 69 38
cuna@worlddiabetesfoundation.org

Mariana Gomes
Student Assistant
   
mmxv@worlddiabetesfoundation.org

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