## **Financial report 2019-2022 - Policy on grant making** 

The AHI is a relatively newly formed campaigning organisation, currently with no funds or employees. We are cautious and ambitious. The charity strategy for the first three years is to advocate transforming schools in Health Promoting Schools (HPS), and develop and assess the effectiveness a comprehensive and scalable operational model to the World Health Organisation (WHO) HPS concept, applicable in schools serving low-income communities, which may facilitate the implementation of the WHO and UNESCO new initiative “Making Every School a Health Promoting School” through the development and promotion of Global - - Standards for Health Promoting Schools (See: https://www.who.int/health promoting schools/en/). Our strategy also included to assess the impact of the novel school intervention. 

The Trustees have decided unanimously on the need to demonstrate the effectiveness of the AHI HPS model before starting fundraising to implement this novel school intervention in a large scale. Therefore, school programmes centrally funded will only be initiated after studies have demonstrated the programme is cost-effective. 

Fundraising strategy will have two tiers – AHI local committees may fundraise for themselves to afford to run their programmes, any money raised locally will be invested locally. Local committees may accept donations to fit the school to run the AHI HPS model. This includes construction of low-cost sinks, refurbishment of toilets and consumables. They may also employ a person to run the AHI HPS model in schools. School programmes worldwide may be centrally funded in the future once the financial resources have been secured to deliver the school intervention in full. AHI may also fundraise to provide technical support services (i.e.: IT services) to schools implanting the AHI HPS programme, campaigning to disseminate the benefits of transforming schools in HPS, and to cover the low core costs incurred by AHI virtual office. AHI intents to have a very small virtual central office, thus minimum funds will be required. 

Financial systems and processes will be put in place to fundraise, report, and facilitate spending, including auditing process, after demonstrating scientifically the effectiveness of the AHI HPS programme.