About Access-Centric & Sustainability Foundation

From Assessment to Action, Across Africa’s Health Systems.

ASF is a non-profit advisory and technical delivery organization working at the intersection of health systems, supply chains, and market access across emerging markets. Since our founding, we have moved from single country assessments to live, multi-country field operations delivering work commissioned by the Presidential Initiative for Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC), the World Bank, CHAI, and Gates Foundation-funded initiatives, and engaging directly with UNITAID, Roll Back Malaria (RBM), GiveWell, and other leading global health institutions. Headquartered in Abuja with active operations in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho, and Eswatini, we combine deep local market knowledge with the technical rigor global funders expect helping close the gap between policy intent and last-mile access.

The Journey

Our Story

Access-Centric and Sustainability Foundation was founded on a simple conviction: the barriers standing between emerging markets and essential health technologies are solvable and the people best positioned to solve them are the ones who live closest to the problem.

We started as a small, Nigeria-focused advisory practice. In our first full year of operation, that conviction was tested and proven. We closed our flagship engagement, a national manufacturing capacity assessment for the Presidential Vaccine Access Committee (PVAC), delivered under the HSCL/PVAC/World Bank programme with client commendation. We built a second flagship engagement with CHAI and the World Bank, assessing primary healthcare supply chains across eight Nigerian states. And by mid-2026, we had moved from single-country assessments to a live, Gates Foundation-funded field operation running concurrently across five countries.

In June 2026, ASF presented directly to a joint UNITAID/Roll Back Malaria delegation during their Nigeria mission sharing a stage with regional procurement leaders in front of two of global health’s most influential funders. We have since built active pipeline relationships with GiveWell, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and multiple consortium partners bidding on the next generation of global health supply chain and diagnostic integration programmes.

“We are still early in our journey, but we have learned that credibility in this sector is not claimed — it is built on one delivered assessment, one honest recommendation, and one functioning supply chain at a time.”

Key Milestones

2024 - Flagship PVAC Assessment

₦280M+ national LLIN manufacturing capacity assessment delivered under PVAC / World Bank programme.

2025 - SWAp PHC Assessment

Eight-state primary healthcare supply chain diagnostic with CHAI and World Bank.

2026 - Multi-Country Expansion

Gates Foundation LEN field operation launched concurrently across 5 countries; joint UNITAID/RBM delegation presentation.

Our Vision

A world where universal access to essential health technologies is our normal.

We envision health systems across emerging markets where no life is lost due to stockouts, unaffordable commodities, or inefficient supply chain bottlenecks.

Our Mission

Sustainable access to essential health technologies in underserved societies.

Our mission is to improve health outcomes by adopting out-of-the-box thinking powered by real-world data, technology, and the brightest talents from emerging markets to design and implement bespoke, sustainable solutions that overcome barriers to access.

How We Operate

Our Edge

The four operational principles guiding every engagement and fieldwork deployment.

Evidence Before Opinion

Every recommendation we make is grounded in fieldwork, data, and direct stakeholder engagement — not assumption.

Local-First, Globally Rigorous

We’re built and staffed by people from the markets we serve, held to the technical standards global funders expect.

Complement, Don’t Compete

We position our work to strengthen existing actors and government-led systems, not displace them.

Say the Hard Thing

When an assessment finds a problem, we name it plainly — to funders, to governments, and to ourselves.

Geographic Footprint

Where We Work

Active Country Operations

Live multi-country field operations and active staffing presence:

  • Nigeria (Headquarters - Abuja)
  • Uganda
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Eswatini

Assessment Footprint

Multi-state fieldwork diagnostic & advisory coverage across Nigeria:

Lagos Abuja / FCT Cross River Ogun Rivers Delta Kano + Additional SWAp States

Pipeline Geographies

Regional manufacturing & market access expansion initiatives:

  • Ghana
  • Gambia
  • Mali
  • Burkina Faso
  • Additional ECOWAS Markets
Institutional Oversight

Governance

ASF is governed by a Board of Trustees and supported by a Technical Advisory Committee providing pan-African technical oversight on major programmes.

Board of Trustees

Chairperson

Taofik Oladipupo Odukoya

Vanguard Pharmacy

Trustee

Dr. Mariya Saleh

Board Member

Trustee

Pharm. Olutobi Akinwusi

Board Member

Trustee

Ms. Tola Oloke

Board Member

Trustee

Mr. Babatunji Odelola

Board Member

Trustee

Mr. Matthew Attah

Board Member & COO