The Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of Every Woman Every Child, was launched at the ThirdInternational Conference on Financing for Development inJuly 2015. The facility helps close the funding gap for reproductive, maternal,newborn, child, and adolescent health, to provide smart,scaled and sustainable financing to accelerate efforts toend preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescentdeaths by 2030.Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, strongly believes that healthy womenand children enable healthy economies, political stabilityand forward momentum. They are our smartest investment, whenwe invest wisely.