Food Security
We build effective food systems for the underserved. Our prorgrams in food security focus on: Increasing smallholder farmer productivty, reducing malnutrition and food waste and creating fair markets for small producers.
Leveraging the power of social innovation
Social innovation creates new ways to address society's most pressing challenges. By combining entrepreneurial thinking with social impact, it helps build solutions that are more inclusive, sustainable, and scalable. We support social entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners working to improve health and food security. Through funding, partnerships, and capacity-building programs, we help turn promising ideas into lasting impact.
Our Impact Areas
Health
We are enabling access to health - our programs in health focus on: Community Health Workers, Last Mile Health, Payment and Insurance Options as well as Climate and Health interventions.
Impact in Numbers: Social Innovation Portfolio
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underserved beneficiaries through our health access and food security programs
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An insight into our impact across the globe
We are active in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) across Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Click on the dots to explore some of our active impact projects:
Our approach
Innovators and Entrepreneurs in Focus
We empower social impact organizations and entrepreneurs – especially women – by supporting locally driven solutions and strengthening their visibility, credibility, and ability to scale.
Catalytic Funding
We provide strategic funding to kick start and derisk high impact solutions, unlocking additional capital through partnerships and innovative financing approaches across the continuum of capital.
Coalitions and Networks
We build cross sector coalitions with NGOs, governments, social investors, and global partners to amplify impact and accelerate systemic change across regions.
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Social Innovation Ecosystem Fund
Since 2019, the Social Innovation Ecosystem Fund (SIEF) has scaled social innovations to support underserved communities in low- and middle-income countries. Expanded in 2023 by the Bayer Foundation, it now operates across Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Women Entrepreneurs Award
The Women Entrepreneurs Award – our flagship program in partnership with Impact Hub Network – supports every year 15 women entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries with funding and accelerator support to scale social impact in health, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture.
Social Impact Start-Up Academy
The Social Impact Start-up Academy (SISTAC) connects master students and corporate volunteers with real-world social challenges while helping startups from low- and middle-income countries in health and nutrition scale their impact and improve livelihoods.
Collaborative Funding: Communities of Practice
Complex global challenges cannot be solved through funding alone. By bringing together funders, foundations, impact investors, and ecosystem partners, our Communities of Practice create spaces for shared learning, collaboration, and collective action. Through knowledge exchange, partnership building, and co-investment opportunities, we help strengthen the ecosystems that enable innovative solutions in health and agriculture to scale their impact and reach the communities that need them most.
Partners
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