Overview

We have 25 years of experience as a global social impact consulting firm and use a 360-degree approach that improves the well-being of vulnerable communities. CMS and its sister organisation, Swasti, a global south public health agency, partner with communities at the last mile to help them realise their potential through health and well-being. We work towards achieving Universal Health Care and Global Health Security through a Climate x Health centric approach and ensure our programmes are climate-responsive.

Community System Strengthening:

People-centric outcomes through Swasti.

Health System Strengthening:

Institution and policy outcomes through CMS.

Key Domains
We Work In

Comprehensive Primary Health
The domain is based on the core understanding that, unless we address how the health system is experienced, a life of well-being may remain a distant dream for the marginalised. Sector-shaping work through Invest4Wellness (i4We), a system innovation in primary healthcare, and the Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) Alliance to help propel the agenda of strengthening primary health care.
Early Diagnosis
The domain focuses on detecting and monitoring symptoms, health concerns, and disease trends as early as possible using point-of-care devices and building the capacities of the communities to take control of their own health. Sector-shaping work through self-testing initiatives, screening and testing, and integrated disease surveillance for community health.
Technology & Digital Health
Through this domain, we focus on using and providing the appropriate technology solutions to enable vulnerable groups to achieve health and well-being. Sector-shaping work through Call4Svasth, telecare for the vulnerable, using point-of-care diagnostics in our community health interventions, and DICEFlow for our primary healthcare work.
SRHR & Maternal Health
Our initiatives under this domain empower adolescent girls, women, and sexual minorities to protect their health and rights. Sector-shaping work through the SHE Platform to scale up Manyata to at least 1000 new social healthcare enterprises (SHEs) in key states of India by 2024 and membership in the Asia-Pacific Alliance for SRHR.
One Health + Planetary Health
The ‘One Health’ approach requires the coordination of human, animal, and environmental health partners for successful public health interventions. We can no longer ignore the impact of climate change on human health, and we need to make all health programmes more climate-responsive. Sector-shaping work through the Precision Health Platform, surveillance using environmental tools, and the Green Health Alliance.
Global Health Security & Pandemic Response
The domain focuses on building systems and finances that are located and secured towards improving global health security, particularly preparedness. Sector-shaping work early warning systems for COVID surveillance, COVID response, and the Global Vaccine Initiative.

Other priority domains include Mental Health, Social Determinants of Health, Inclusive health systems for special populations, and Innovative Financing & Health Entrepreneurship.

In 2022-23 alone, Health Practice reached and enriched the health of 26.44 million people and supported over 85+ partners.

The Practice Works with Various Partner Types:

Local to National Governments, Regional Government bodies, UN Agencies, Bilateral
and Multilateral Agencies, Large Civil Society Networks representing the cause of
vulnerable populations.

Key Initiatives

01.
Multistakeholder health initiative with the aim to transform the City of Bhopal into a “Healthy City” based on WHO’s long-running Healthy Cities framework concentrating on the Social Determinants of Health in the five pillars of Healthy Water, Healthy Food, Healthy Sanitation, Healthy Environment, and Individual and Family Health with support from the National Health Mission, the Government of Madhya Pradesh, and HSTP.
02.
Developing effective strategies for COVID-19 vaccination and strengthening and building resilience within the health system in 3 SEAR countries: India, the Philippines, and Cambodia, to deeply understand the health system, Routine Immunization, and Vaccination strategies across these countries to bring an end to future pandemics with support from Rockefeller Foundation.

03.
National QI Coordinating Agency and Technology Agency for Manyata 4.0, with the aim of scaling up Manyata to at least 1000 new social healthcare enterprises (SHEs) in key states of India by 2024 with support from MSD for Mothers.
04.
Building resilience among workers and businesses of factories against COVID-19 and future crises with the aim of protecting the lives and livelihoods of over 40,000 workers from 14 RMG factories of Amazon Supply Chains located in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chittagong, Mymensingh, and Comilla districts of Bangladesh with support from Amazon.
05.
Launching India’s first city-wide environmental surveillance system in 5 cities with the aim of developing a comprehensive yet decentralised environmental surveillance system coupled with geospatial intelligence and intelligence gathering through community participation in 25 cities with support from the Skoll Foundation.
06.
Facilitating the Learning for Impact (L4I) knowledge collaborative by the USAID India Health Office provides insights and evidence to maximise the impact of USAID health investments in India.
07.
Conducting a process evaluation of India’s first health-focused ‘development impact bond’ (DIB) to generate insights on the prospective role of performance-based financing mechanisms in global health programming.
08.
Designing the National Drug Control Master Plan (NDCMP) II for the Government of Nigeria to combat the challenges of addiction and trafficking and providing monitoring and evaluation support to relevant government agencies.
09.
Conducting an evaluation of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for South East Asia’s (WHO SEARO) Collaborating Centres to assess the effectiveness of the partnership and identify influencing factors.
10.
Together with Swasti, we raised over one billion USD from the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria.