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Table 3 Thematic summary of innovator’s feedback (DevelopmentXChange)

From: Saving Lives at Birth; development of a retrospective theory of change, impact framework and prioritised metrics

Added value of partnership/ Saving Lives at Birth platform:

  – Visibility

  – Partnering and shared learning in community of innovators

  – Integrated solutions

Maximising impact:

  – Partnering and shared learning in community of innovators

  – Engaging partners early

  – Encourage all innovators to play active part in vision to impact at scale

  – Need to understand: mechanisms/ risk to scale-up/ clear pathway to achieve impact

  – Identifying priority areas

Specific comments and suggestion:

  – Funding – small to take to scale, funding gap between seed and TTS grants

  – Building capacity outside North America/ Europe

  – Improving feedback mechanisms and support

  – Competition process biases technology