Despite a rise in global expenditure on health, significant challenges persist. Health is impacted by a number of interrelated development issues—access to water, poverty, hygiene, education and nutrition, to name just a few. Rapid population growth and unpredictable factors such as climate change and natural disasters, economic crises and protracted conflicts compound these challenges on multiple fronts.
In solving these problems, governments, the private sector and non-governmental organizations have typically worked in isolation, without cooperation or synchronization of efforts. As a result, they have not been able to make the necessary impact.
Accenture research highlights the emergence of a new “convergence economy” in which new cross-sector alliances are delivering innovative solutions that promise faster, more scalable and sustainable outcomes, overcoming the longstanding problems of more traditional approaches that are overly reliant upon aid.
Accenture Development Partnerships, working increasingly at the intersection of public, private and development sectors, is ideally positioned to facilitate and enable these new cross-sector alliances.