Conference Board of Canada 2014 - Rodney Ghali - Multi-sectoral Partnerships to Promote Healthy Living and Prevent Chronic Disease

Changing the public health landscape by introducing non-traditional partners and concepts

The Play Exchange

Canada's First Active Living Challenge

Multi-sectoral Partnerships

to Promote Healthy Living and Prevent Chronic Disease

Rodney Ghali

Director General

Partnerships and Strategies Division

Rodney.Ghali@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Engagement Across Sectors Project Examples

Air Miles / YMCA Physical Activity Program

Get BUSY

PLAY for Diabetes Prevention

Redesigned Approach to Federal Investments

Multi-sectoral Partners

Streamlined Process

Benefits of the New Approach

Ensures payments are tied to tangible outputs

Long-term, multi-sectoral partnerships approved and in development

With confirmed and proposed projects, over $11M in private sector capital leveraged

Toward a New Public Health Paradigm

Evolution toward Social Innovation

The Numbers

The Challenge

Developing New Instruments (prototype)

Using Existing Instruments More Effectively

Conventional Approach

Developing New Instruments (scale)

• Piloting social finance elements

• Payments tied to outcomes and based on projected societal benefits

• Financial or non-financial benefits for private funders

• Modest and targeted short-term investments

• Expand eligibility of funding recipients

• Requiring partners to secure non-federal resources in order to access federal funds

• Portion of the public funding tied to achieved outcomes

• Incentive for innovation – only get full funding if results are achieved

• Government pays for activities not outcomes

• Short-term funding

• Burdensome and inflexible

• Little room for innovation

• Payments tied to outcomes and actual public savings

• Financial returns for investors

• Potential initiatives to support effective social finance market place