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Our Approach

HBGI uses an outcomes-based model to support bottom-up approaches to improve mental health and foster systems-level change.

This model attracts new funding to the sector and maximizes funding impact. It increases accountability, giving funders greater visibility of the link between their money and the results. Rather than impose solutions on people and places, this model gives providers the freedom to design and deliver context-relevant, individually-focused programs. 

With the oversight of a Board of Directors, an experienced management team, and with guidance from a Lived Experience Council and an Advisory Council, HBGI operates in two ways:

1) Pooling the funds of donors into Regional or Thematic Outcomes Funds (e.g., a Fund for Africa and a Fund for Sport & Mental Health), which HBGI manages and uses to contract new programs, identified in partnership with stakeholders, with HBGI as the ‘outcomes funder’

2) Supporting fund holders, such as governments and organizations, to design and mobilize contracted programs, building and operating performance management systems to drive the outcomes and impact of these programs.

As part of 1), we are in the process of creating outcomes funds, which will be used to contract new programs. Providers of these programs will be paid on the basis of the outcomes they achieve, as opposed to traditional fee-for-service models. The outcomes will be a mix of measures related to poor mental health and its socio-economic causes and consequences. Some concrete examples of outcomes that could be paid for are:

  • the number of homeless people who secure accommodation and stabilize their lives

  • a reduction in the number of young people who self harm or develop eating disorders

  • the number of people accurately diagnosed in a clinic and receiving treatment

  • the number of people with HIV or TB who adhere to their treatment program

To find out more, read The Eleven Steps in Running an HBGI Outcomes Fund.