Collective Social Innovators 2025 Cross-sector leaders who lead or facilitate a group or network of organizations. They address a bigger problem than what an individual organization can take on, towards social inequalities and vulnerable ecosystems. Credit: Community Health Impact Coalition Organization: Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative (ASCI) Headquarters: Ghana Impact Region: Sub-Saharan Africa Sector: Sustainable agriculture and smallholder farmers SDGs: 1, 2, 8, 15 and 17 Organization: Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) Headquarters: United Kingdom Impact Region: Global Sector: Community health workers SDGs: 3, 5, 8 and 17Baffoe is Executive Director, Global and Africa at Proforest, which focuses on agricultural and forestry production and sourcing that is people-, nature- and climate-positive. Part of the team leading ASCI since its inception 10 years ago, he leads projects and programmes in Africa, supporting the public and private sectors with sustainability policies. With an MSc in Forestry and Environmental Policy from Louisiana State University, he has over two decades’ experience in natural resource management and providing technical support to sustainability certification standard-setting and implementation. He also sits on the Steering Committee of the Tropical Forest Alliance. Ballard is CEO of CHIC. Through research, advocacy and coordination with community health workers (CHWs), she has driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions, including those who provide it. As founding Programme Manager at Last Mile Health, she collaborated with CHWs in remote villages to ensure universal access to healthcare before the 2014 Ebola outbreak, helping create Liberia’s first national CHW programme. A Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Women’s Leadership Award winner, Ballard co-chairs the Anti-Racism Task Force at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health. She was among 20 global experts selected to review the World Health Organization’s first guidance on CHW programmes.Abraham Baffoe Madeleine Ballard Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative, Ghana Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 21

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