Title: Our Work | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Headings: Our work
Our work
We are focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which we can do the most good.
Places
Africa
China
Europe
India
Japan
Middle East
North America
Program strategies
Gender Equality
Global Development
Global Growth and Opportunity
Global Health
Global Policy and Advocacy
U.S. Program
More about our work

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Japan
We work with various sectors in Japan to advance solutions to health and development challenges faced by people in the world’s poorest countries. Middle East
We work with partners across the Middle East to tackle a range of challenges, from poor health and poverty to low agricultural production. North America
We invest in deep relationships with community leaders and innovators who are doing positive work that supports communities domestically and globally. PROGRAM STRATEGIES
Program strategies
We focus on issues we think they are the biggest barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives. For each issue we work on, we fund innovative ideas that could help remove barriers. Some of the projects we fund will fail. We not only accept that, we expect it—because we think an essential role of philanthropy is to make bets on promising solutions that governments and businesses can’t afford to make. As we learn which bets pay off, we adjust our strategies and share the results so everyone can benefit. Gender Equality
Our Gender Equality Division works to achieve gender equality by integrating gender across the foundation’s global work and investing in women’s economic empowerment, women’s leadership, and removing the barriers for women and girls to thrive. Gender Equality
Global Development
Our Global Development Division focuses on improving the delivery of high-impact health products and services to the world’s poorest communities and helps countries expand access to health coverage.