Profile of identified social innovations
| Community-managed group | SIHI comanaged group | |
| Innovation | Kalinga Health10 | Seal of Health Governance11 |
| The Nature of Innovation | It is a 360° social enterprise facility that focuses on service delivery for tuberculosis care from detection to management. It implements a hub-and-spoke model, where it acts as the ‘hub’ and several private providers (‘spokes’) refer patients through a series of public–private mix strategies for tuberculosis care. | A health leadership and monitoring programme that encourages community leaders to be actively engaged in addressing their community’s concerns through an open participatory competition. |
| Innovator | Innovations for community health is the first implementation-focused non-government organisation in the Philippines. It seeks to provide sustainable and scalable innovations in community health with an emphasis on private-sector delivery mechanisms. | The local government of Del Carmen oversees and manages the project, along with representatives from the Department of Education and local civil society organisations. |
| Geographical area | Marikina City—a highly urbanised city located in the Philippines’ National Capital Region | Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte—a fifth-class coastal municipality in one of the major islands in the Philippines |
| Communities | Comprosed of 16 barangays/villages. Two barangays, which have a combined population of 45 310 as of 2020, participated in the project. | Composed of 20 barangays with a total population of 20 127 as of 2020. All 20 barangays participated in the project. |
| Community members’ roles in the innovation | K! leaders, who are volunteer leaders and members of the community, conducted house-to-house visits to ensure that patients of Kalinga Health were compliant with their medications and their follow-up consultations. During these home visits, they also provided health education sessions related to tuberculosis and other lifestyle diseases such as hypertension. | Development of scorecards, participation in health leadership and management training, provision of out-of-the-box solutions to their context-specific challenges |
| Selected local monitors | K! Leaders, a group of volunteers trained by ICH in health promotion and patient engagement | Members of the barangay council, barangay nutrition scholars, barangay health workers |
ICH, Innovation for Community Health; SIHI, Social Innovation in Health Initiative.