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About the Movement

We are a movement for country-led innovation and execution.

KLIC is not an event. It is a continuous knowledge and execution platform built around Health Justice, country leadership, and responsible innovation.

Our Mission

Innovation must support country leadership.

Innovation must support country leadership, strengthen systems, protect communities, and create fairer access to essential health services.

KLIC was created to solve a persistent problem in global health: innovation is abundant, but execution is fragmented. Countries are not short of tools, platforms, or expertise — they are short of structured pathways to turn available evidence, financing and technical support into decisions that health systems can actually govern, implement and sustain. KLIC exists to build those pathways through structured, time-bound, accountability-driven cycles that put Ministries of Health at the centre. Each cycle follows a disciplined arc — Understand, Diagnose, Create, Commit — producing implementation pledges that country teams can act on within 30–60 days using existing authority, staff and systems.

Country Sovereignty

Countries own the agenda. KLIC provides the structure, partners provide the resources, and ministries lead.

Continuous Movement

KLIC is not a one-off conference. Each cycle builds on the previous — creating institutional memory and living documentation.

Health Justice Anchor

Every output — every lab book, every KIA, every execution pathway — is evaluated against its contribution to Health Justice.

KLIC leadership and participants

What KLIC Is

KLIC is not an event. It is a platform.

Understanding what KLIC is — and what it is not — is fundamental to engaging with the movement effectively.

KLIC IS…

  • ✓A continuous knowledge and execution platform
  • ✓A structured cycle of labs, acceleration, and implementation
  • ✓A multi-stakeholder accountability framework
  • ✓A knowledge stewardship and ecosystem mobilisation engine
  • ✓Built around Health Justice, country leadership, and responsible innovation

KLIC IS NOT…

  • ✗An annual conference or side event
  • ✗A donor showcase or reporting mechanism
  • ✗A vertical programme with predetermined outputs
  • ✗An organisation replacing existing health institutions
  • ✗A technology platform or software product

Institutional Identity

KLIC is a registered NGO

KLIC — Knowledge Lab for the Innovation Community — is a legally registered Organisation Non Gouvernementale (ONG) in Bénin, operating across Africa, MENA, Asia and Latin America in partnership with Ministries of Health, donors, technical agencies, innovators and community actors.

ONG enregistrée à Cotonou, Bénin · Récépissé n° 2024/3708/DEP-LIT/SG/SAG-ASSOC · 16 février 2024 · Cotonou

GaneshAID

Founding partner of KLIC. GaneshAID co-created the movement and provides strategic and operational support for coordination, community building, partnerships, knowledge stewardship, and ecosystem mobilisation.

Ministries of Health

National health authorities from countries across Africa, Asia, MENA, and Latin America who define lab priorities and lead country execution tracks.

Technical & Funding Partners

Bilateral donors, foundations, multilateral agencies, and technical organisations that co-design KLIC cycles and contribute expertise and resources to lab execution.

Our Values

The principles that guide every KLIC cycle

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Health Justice

Every decision — who participates, what we study, what we recommend — is anchored to equity and fairer access to health.

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Country Leadership

Countries set the agenda. External partners align behind national priorities, not the other way around.

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Responsible Innovation

Innovation is not neutral. We evaluate solutions against country readiness, ethical standards, and long-term system sustainability.

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Accountability

KLIC labs produce lab books with named owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes — not presentations that disappear after the event.

The KLIC Community

People at the heart of the movement

Join the KLIC Movement

Whether you are a Ministry, donor, technical agency, or innovator — there is a role for you in moving health innovation from dialogue to execution.