IHSTS Strategic Direction Dashboard
Tracking our transformation journey - from bold ideas to real-world impact - through partnerships, equity, and sustainable innovation.
Intended Results
🟢 Increased credibility, visibility through strategic partnerships and aligned engagement with system leaders and prominent organizations.
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KPI Cards​
🔹New formal partnerships this year
🔹Total media coverage mentions
🔹Social media engagement metrics
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REPUTATION | PARTNERSHIPS | SUSTAINABILITY
Establish IHSTS as a recognized, trusted catalyst for health system transformation and sustainability.
IHSTS has established strong partnerships and refined its approach to transforming innovative ideas into system-level change, resulting in some improvements in profile within the health system.
In a climate of increasing competition for funding and influence, it is essential to amplify our visibility, deepen strategic alliances, and consistently demonstrate our value to secure long-term sustainability.
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EQUITY-ORIENTED PARTNERSHIPS
Strengthen and Expand Strategic Partnerships to Drive Collaborative, Equity-Oriented Health System Transformation
Partnerships are at the core of IHSTS’s focus to co-create evidence-informed, person-centered, and culturally safe health system solutions.
Collaborating with a broad range of partners such as health authorities, academic institutions, Indigenous and community organizations, policymakers, and those with lived experience, enables IHSTS to address complex challenges and promote equity. Through aligned goals and shared learning, these partnerships are key to delivering sustainable system transformation.
Intended Results
🟢 Increased trust, alignment and sustained engagement with community-based partners.
🟢IHSTS is recognized provincially and utilized as a strategic enabler that uses effective and innovative approaches through a range of transformation initiatives.
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KPI Cards​
🔹 # of engaged community-based organizations
🔹 #of multi-sectoral collaborators per initiative
🔹 # of co-led initiatives with health authorities
Intended Results
🟢 An increased awareness and understanding of IHSTS’s impact among funders and partners
🟢Using demonstration projects to expose the potential for scalability and diversified revenue
🟢Partners demonstrate confidence in the organization by engaging in co-funding on initiatives
🟢Increased success rate in grant funding opportunities.
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KPI Cards​
🔹 Total partnered funding secured (YTD)
🔹 # of joint grant applications submitted
🔹 Grant success rate (%)
🔹 # of shared HR/resource initiatives
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SUSTAINABLE FUNDING & CAPACITY
Establish sustainable, diversified funding to support IHSTS's long-term operations and optimize the use of human resources to accelerate the impact on health system transformation.
Amid growing financial and system pressures, IHSTS must adopt sustainable strategies by innovating revenue generation and improving resource management to ensure long-term stability.
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The main objectives are to create innovative revenue-generating strategies, such as collaborative funding tables where partners with shared priorities can co-invest. IHSTS will also pursue partnerships with both non-profit and for-profit organizations to open up new funding streams and increase collective impact.
In addition, the organization plans to launch demonstration projects, including think tanks, hackathons, and policy labs, which will address key system gaps and attract diverse funders.