A healthy
start

for every
child.

We design evidence-based, innovative
and scalable solutions to improve child health.

Through strengthening entrepreneurs, governments
and communities, we deliver real, lasting change.

Together, we can build a healthier future
where every child has a chance to thrive.

Our impact in numbers

Scaling Healthy Villages

Ethiopia's path to ending child stunting

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Healthy Village Approach Integrated Into National Policy

Ethiopia's Ministry of Health has integrated the Healthy Village approach into its national policy framework. This is a major milestone in what system strengthening can achieve at scale.

Karolinska Validates our Impact on Child Health

The renowned international Karolinska Institutet validates our success on improving child health in Bangladesh. The study, published in the journal Children, showcases significant impact, halving undernutrition in children in just four years, much faster than the national trend.

Safe water Market Systems: what it takes to make it work

Safe water in rural Bangladesh isn’t only an access problem. It’s also a market design problem. Here’s how Max TapWater is solving it through a commercially viable social enterprise model.

Disability Inclusion: When the system sees you

How embedding disability-inclusive practice into existing child health systems — rather than running parallel programmes — creates services that reach more children and last beyond project funding.

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Looking at a public-private partnership:

the Ambassador's visit to Barishal

On 13 August 2026, Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh Joris van Bommel travelled to Bakerganj in Barishal to see how piped water reaches households through a market-based model. Around 100 water grids now operate across Barishal and Patuakhali — run as businesses, paid for by the households they serve, and built to keep running long after external funding steps back. The visit drew coverage across Bangladeshi national media.

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Building local systems

for child nutrition in Nepal

Earlier this year, Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality in Nepal's Dhading district was declared the country's first Model Clean and Hygienic Rural Municipality. What has happened since matters more than the title: the municipality has spent the months following it building the systems that make the recognition mean something — an endorsed guideline, a growth card in families' hands, equipped health posts, a named focal person, and a line in its own budget.

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Building on what works

in Ethiopia’s villages

COWASH and Max Foundation have reviewed the first phase of their partnership to bring nutrition into Ethiopia’s community-managed water systems — building on what already works, rather than running parallel programmes, and generating evidence for national scale through the Seqota Declaration.

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