IPE Global entrusted Athena Infonomics to oversee evaluation and learning tasks regarding the management of SAMRIDH, a USAID-supported Partnership for Affordable Healthcare Access and Longevity (PAHAL), which focuses on innovative financial models, empowering governments and donors to complement traditional financing with conditional and catalytic support, private investments, and other non-donor funding sources to drive social impact.

Aligned with the ethos of PAHAL, the Sustainable Access to Market and Resources for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare (SAMRIDH) Blended Finance Facility advocated health financing models that aligned new capital pools to bolster proven innovations, thereby enhancing access to quality, affordable healthcare solutions for impoverished and vulnerable populations.

Athena, referred to as the Impact Evaluation Partner (IEP), undertook Evaluation and Learning activities across various themes such as health infrastructure, primary healthcare, medical devices and others.

The impact evaluation encompassed several key tasks, including developing evaluation frameworks, designing Theory of Change (ToC) and Logical Framework (LFA), coordinating entity-specific evaluations, compiling findings into thematic and SAMRIDH project-level reports, ensuring data confidentiality and quality, and providing support for program evaluation activities and advanced data analysis.