Tiko, BOP and FP2030 announce the ‘Girls’ Outcomes Platform’

Tiko, in partnership with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and in collaboration with FP2030, has launched the Girls’ Outcomes Platform: a pioneering outcomes-based financing mechanism designed to enable the urgent expansion of access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) services across Kenya and South Africa, with plans to scale across Africa.

The Platform directly addresses HIV and unintended pregnancy faced by millions of adolescent girls in the Africa region, through funding innovative local services. Crucially, the Platform’s outcomes-based model shifts development funding away from paying for activities (or inputs) to paying only for verified, measurable results. This shift ensures maximum impact and transparency for every dollar spent.

As global funding for sexual and reproductive health tightens, the need for aligned, sustainable, results-driven investment is critical. In Kenya, 15% of girls become pregnant before age 18, and HIV remains a leading cause of death for young women. It is estimated that 1,000 adolescent girls and young women in South Africa account for new HIV infections each week and one in three girls who become pregnant fail to return to school.

The Girls’ Outcomes Platform offers an innovative solution by blending donor contributions, government co-funding, and private philanthropy into a pooled structure. It places the needs of adolescent girls and young women at the heart of service delivery, enabling:

• Effective, sustainable solutions to tackle HIV and unintended pregnancy: Funds are dedicated to achieving meaningful outcomes that combat the most urgent issues girls face – unintended pregnancy and HIV – through integrated care pathways.
• Reduced costs: By focusing on achieving outcomes rather than on predefined activities and inputs, implementers are able to iterate and refine their approaches, as well as optimise their costs through pooled contributions and aligned delivery.
• Better value for funders: Funders pay only upon the achievement of pre-agreed outcomes, such as reduced unintended pregnancies or increased service uptake.
• Results-Driven accountability: Continuous data and real-time monitoring informs teams and allows them to adapt delivery for maximum impact – ensuring every investment is optimised for measurable, life-changing outcomes for girls well into their adulthood.
• Government buy-in & local ownership: The model guarantees local ownership by working with governments to co-fund the outcomes achieved, ensuring interventions meet girls’ needs and are embedded into public health budgets.

“The Girls’ Outcomes Platform shifts the focus from promises to proof,” said Benoit Renard, Co-CEO of Tiko. “We must change how girls-centred sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing care is prioritised. We are done with incremental steps and need to scale urgent care through a model that creates stronger, highly sustainable funding streams. It proves that when we tie investment directly to lasting, tangible impact, we scale the opportunity for girls to be healthy, resilient, and in control of their own futures across Africa.”

The Platform builds on the success of Tiko’s previous ASRH Development Impact Bond, marking a major evolution in development finance by moving from single, isolated projects to a scalable, pooled funding model capable of driving systemic change.

“This model fundamentally changes how we fund and deliver social impact,” said Mila Lukic, CEO of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships. “By moving from traditional grants to paying only for verified outcomes, we create a system where resources are channelled to evidence-led solutions, and delivery consortia are empowered to innovate and scale their impact. What’s special about the Girls’ Outcomes Platform is that its pooled funding structure unlocks scale and progress, and diversifies sources of capital, in new ways. Complex challenges like the threat of HIV and unintended teen pregnancies for girls in Africa require ambitious, collaborative solutions like this one.”

Tiko is collaborating with FP2030’s Made Possible Campaign, highlighting the Girls’ Outcome Platform as a sustainable financing model for family planning for others to join and learn from. Through the Made Possible by Family Planning campaign, the organisations will combine their networks and expertise to reach new audiences and demonstrate the transformative economic and social returns of family planning investment.

Dr. Samukeliso Dube, Executive Director of FP2030, said, “The family planning sector faces converging threats: shrinking government aid, surging misinformation, and intensifying attacks on reproductive rights. Meeting this moment requires bold collaboration. Our partnership with Tiko will amplify the evidence-based investment case for family planning and engage new champions—from the private sector to innovative funders—who can help secure equitable access to contraception for all.”

Government co-financing opportunities are already taking shape. Tiko is working alongside Kenyan counties and setting a new milestone for embedding outcomes-based financing in public health systems. In South Africa, parallel progress is being made through the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).

The SAMRC is building a national outcomes platform to attract global funding and drive innovation for better health, ensuring solutions meet urgent government needs and can be scaled up. Leveraging its success with the first government-funded sexual and reproductive health (SRH) social impact bond, the SAMRC, along with Tiko and Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, is now sharply focused on improving the lives of girls inside and outside of school in South Africa as part of the regionally focused Girls Outcomes Platform.

Dr Nevilene Slingers, SAMRC Director for Investment4Health Programme, said on the launch, “The SAMRC is proud to lead the Girls Outcomes Platform in South Africa, ensuring this critical work is fully aligned with government priorities and gaps, and effectively coordinating all outcomes funds, including those from government. We work in partnership, as a Section 18A Public Benefit Organisation reporting to the Minister of Health and Finance, with support from South Africa and international donors and partners contributing funds. Together we are driving this process with support from both South African and international partners ensuring our efforts both contribute and learn from the Girls Outcomes Platform’s success.”