2020 Global Health 50/50 Report
Power, privilege & priorities
The 2020 report provides an unprecedented birds-eye view of the global health system today. It reveals that the leadership of the 200 most prominent organisations active in global health continues to reflect power and privilege asymmetries along historical, geographic and gender lines. The report further uncovers a distinct disconnect between the organisational priorities and the gendered burdens of disease around the world.
The report warns that these inequalities -- an inequality of opportunity in career pathways inside organisations and an inequality in who benefits from the global health system -- are impeding progress towards health goals.
High Scorers
GH5050 identified 13 very high-scoring organisations and a further 27 high-scoring organisations in its 2020 Report. High scorers per sector have also been recognised. Scoring is based on performance across the four dimensions of the 2020 analysis. It does not reflect analysis of organisations’ SDG-related focus, or whether their programmatic approaches focus on a specific sex. In the future, GH5050 will continue to explore applying more specificity in its scoring to capture the gender-responsiveness of programmatic policies and strategies.
13 Very high scorers
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Global Affairs Canada
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Nutrition International
- Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (The Partnership, PMNCH)
- Population Services International (PSI)
- SRHR Africa Trust
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
- UNICEF
- Unitaid
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
27 High scorers
- Abt Associates
- Africa Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC)
- BRAC
- CARE International
- Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)*
- GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
- Health Action International Jhpiego
- Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
- Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)
- Mercy Corps
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Palladium
- PATH
- Plan International
- Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
- Scaling Up Nutrition
- Stop TB Partnership
- UN Women
- Unilever
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- World Bank Group
- World Food Programme
- World Health Organization (WHO)
High scorers by sector
Bilaterals and multilaterals
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Global Affairs Canada
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
- Unitaid
Consultancies
- Palladium
Non-governmental and non-profit organisations
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- Population Services International
- SRHR Africa Trust
Private sector
- Abt Associates
- Unilever
Public-Private Partnerships
- Nutrition International
- Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)
Regional organisations
- African Union Commission (AUC)
Research & surveillance
- African Population Health Research Center (APHRC)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
