Concordia celebrates public-private partnerships—driven by the conviction that a multi-sectoral approach can make a tangible difference in the world—through its annual P3 Impact Award, in collaboration with the University of Virginia Darden School Institute for Business in Society, and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships. Introducing the P3 Impact Award, Mary Margaret Frank, Senior Associate Dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, expressed appreciation toward the applicants and finalists driving solutions that leave no one behind.
Hanne Dalmut, Senior Director of Partnerships at Concordia, announced the finalists: 100,000 Strong in the Americas Investment Fund, The Cambodia Rural Sanitation Development Impact Bond, the Standard Microgrid/Zambian Rural Electrification Authority project, Beyond Extraction: Economic Opportunities in Mining Communities; and Salud Mesoamerica Initiative. Inspired by the accomplishments of all the finalists, the award recognizes partnerships that highlight cross-sector collaboration at its best, inspiring innovation and impact to build back better.
Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment at the U.S. Department of State, announced the winner as Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI). Accepting the award, Emma Margarita Iriarte Carcamo, Executive Secretary of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative, explained how SMI is a public-private partnership between the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Foundation, the Governments of Canada and Spain, and eight Mesoamerica countries that is focused on the seven Central America countries and the State of Chiapas, Mexico. It was created in 2011 to reduce health inequities in light of achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on women and children living among the poorest 20% of the population. Emma Margarita Iriarte Carcamo highlighted the organization’s results-based approach and the importance of partnership and transparency in order to facilitate a path for learning. Read more here.
This award was born from aligned interests across all sectors: nonprofit, government, and business.
Mary Margaret Frank
Each year, we’re amazed by the applications that we receive. They represent partnerships that truly highlight cross-sector collaboration at its best.
José Fernandez
Salud Mesoamerica Initiative was created in 2011 to reduce health inequalities and with a focus on reaching 1.8 million women and children living among the poorest 20% of the population.
Hanne Dalmut
Salud Mesoamerica is innovative because it has introduced a novel results-based financing mechanism in which countries and donors share the costs and the risks.
Emma Margarita Iriarte Carcamo
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