Strengthening Local Organizations to Bring Healthcare Closer to Communities
Alliance for Medical Access was established in June 2025 with a simple conviction: local organizations often possess the experience, community trust, and technical expertise needed to create change, but they do not always have access to the institutional infrastructure and funding they need.
AMA designs, finances, and conducts healthcare access programs, with its local partners as well as through its own operations. It structures projects, strengthens organizational capacity, mobilizes funding, and establishes transparent accountability mechanisms.
The results presented below constitute AMA’s inaugural impact report, covering the period from July to December 2025.
Our First Results
These are AMA's first documented results, covering its inaugural period from July to December 2025. The next report will cover the current year.
1,103 Women and Children Reached
A mobile clinic initiative delivered in the Centre-Nord region reached 1,103 women and children.
This community-based intervention helped bring healthcare services closer to people facing geographic, economic, and social barriers to care.
This result illustrates the essential contribution of local organizations: reaching communities where conventional healthcare services remain insufficient or difficult to access.
25 Frontline Health Workers Trained
In Nigeria, 25 frontline health workers received training designed to strengthen their professional knowledge and practices.
The impact of training a health worker extends far beyond the number of people participating in the training. Each better-prepared professional can improve the quality of care and support provided to many people across their community.
3 Partner Organizations Strengthened
During its first six months, AMA contributed to strengthening the organizational capacity of three partner organizations.
This support focused on the foundations required for institutional development, including project structuring, governance, compliance, documentation, donor readiness, and stronger monitoring mechanisms.
Our objective is to help local organizations become stronger, more credible, and better prepared to access institutional funding.
3 Countries Covered by Initial Activities
AMA’s initial activities and collaborations covered three countries between July and December 2025.
This initial presence provided an opportunity to test an approach based on cooperation with local organizations and adaptation to the realities of each country.
Our First Six Months in Numbers
A Growing Institutional Footprint
Since this inaugural reporting period, AMA has continued to build and expand its institutional network.
As of August 2026, AMA has:
These figures represent AMA’s current institutional footprint. They should not be confused with the operational results achieved between July and December 2025.
How AMA Contributes to Impact
AMA’s impact is achieved with the local organizations it works with, and through its own operations.
Its contribution includes:
- designing healthcare access programs that respond to documented needs on the ground;
- directly conducting operations where its presence adds distinct value;
- assessing the operational and institutional capacities of its partners;
- turning field-level needs into structured, fundable projects;
- mobilizing international funding and ensuring its traceability; and
- measuring and documenting the results achieved in communities.
This approach preserves the autonomy of local organizations while providing funders with the governance, transparency, and accountability standards they require.
Measuring Rigorously, Reporting Transparently
AMA is committed to publishing only documented and verifiable results.
For every supported intervention, we seek to document:
- the local organization responsible for implementation;
- the geographic area covered;
- the implementation period;
- the activities delivered;
- the beneficiaries reached;
- the indicators achieved; and
- the evidence supporting the reported results.
When information comes from a partner organization, it is presented as partner-reported data. When results have undergone documentary or independent verification, the form of verification is also disclosed.
How We Measure
- Data is collected directly from beneficiaries by partner organizations, following indicators defined at the start of each project.
- AMA verifies this data through its own teams and through consultants it commissions.
- Unverified figures are flagged as such.
- Discrepancies identified are corrected in subsequent publications.
What We’ve Learned, and What’s Next
This first period confirmed one thing. The main barrier to healthcare access is not a lack of capable local actors. They exist, they know their terrain, and they have the trust of their communities. What they lack is the institutional structuring that would make them visible and fundable to international funders. Useful projects go unfunded — not because they are weak, but because they are not presented in the format funders expect.
AMA has drawn a direct consequence for how it works. It no longer limits itself to directing funding toward partners. It structures projects upstream, brings budgets and indicators up to the standards funders expect, and conducts operations itself where no other actor is able to.
For the current period, AMA has set three priorities:
- supporting fifteen partner organizations to a level of structuring that allows them to seek international funding directly;
- opening two new countries of intervention in West Africa; and
- launching its first directly conducted operations in maternal and child health.