Project: Maternal Mental Wellness
State of development: Current
Stage of development: Early stage
Type of instrument — Impact Bond: No; Outcomes Fund: No; Social Impact Incentives (SIINC): No; Social Impact Guarantee: No; Payment-by-results (no pre-financing): Yes; Technical Assistance and Market-building program: No; Other: 
Expected intervention model: Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI), in partnership with our implementing partner, Right to Care, and generously supported by Anglo American, is launching an innovative, outcomes-focused and locally contextualized program to improve maternal mental wellness in Limpopo Province, South Africa. With mothers’ lived experience informing the program design and delivery from the outset, the program introduces culturally appropriate mental wellness checks and conversation into existing care pathways for the mother and her infant. These care pathways may be clinical, or community based, targeting mother, her infant or both.  Where mothers require further support, working with and utilizing local community organizations, they are guided to access appropriate onward support, including peer support.  The program also builds the capacity of healthcare and community workers to undertake the wellness conversation. Working with and capacity building the local ecosystem ensures a sustainable solution that can continue beyond the 18-month pilot duration. In developing the pilot, HBGI and our partners are engaging with local stakeholders, ensuring the pilot is appropriate to the culture, community and needs of Limpopo Province. 
Policy sectors — Employment and private sector development: No; Education: No; Social protection: No; Criminal justice: No; Health: Yes; Agriculture: No; Environment and climate change: No; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: No; Energy: No; Humanitarian: No; Early Childhood Education: No; Other: 
Primary SDG goal: 3
Country income classification of beneficiaries — Low-income: No; Lower-middle-income: No; Upper-middle-income: Yes; High-income: No
Notes: Data for this pipeline project was last updated in May 2024
Delivery location: South Africa