EuroHealthNet Guide for Financing Prevention and Health Promotion
How to get started
Stage 1: Is this approach right for you?
Why readiness matters
Before engaging in Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI), organisations and regions should reflect on their readiness to adopt new governance models, financing approaches, and ways of working. SCI represents a shift from funding activities to investing in outcomes, requiring coordinated transformation across policy, organisational, and service delivery levels.
What adopting Smart Capacitating Investment involves
Adopting SCI means rethinking how resources are mobilised, how partnerships are formed, and how success is measured. It requires systems that can plan, finance, deliver, and evaluate prevention-oriented interventions in a way that is collaborative, evidence-informed, and ethically grounded.
Assessing your starting point
Not all organisations or systems will be ready to take this step immediately. Understanding your current capacities, barriers, and areas for development is essential to ensure that SCI leads to sustainable, equitable, and measurable improvements in population health. This reflection can help identify where additional support, partnerships, or system changes may be needed before moving forward.
Using the SCIROCCO tool to assess readiness
One practical way to assess readiness is through the l, originally developed to support the scaling of integrated care across Europe. Within the Invest4Health context, it has been adapted to help stakeholders reflect on the “implementation readiness” of local ecosystems for SCI.
Check out Invest4Health's adapted SCIROCCO self-assessment tool to reflect the ‘implementation-readiness’ of organisations to design, develop and test Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) models and associated governance mechanisms.
The adapted SCIROCCO tool assesses twelve key dimensions, including governance, financing, stakeholder engagement, service design, and digital infrastructure. It is designed to be used collectively, enabling diverse stakeholders to build a shared understanding of strengths, gaps, and priorities for action.
Key messages and next steps
- Health promotion is a high-return investment, not just a discretionary cost.
- Smart Capacitating Investment mobilises both money and social capital to build lasting capacity for health.
- SCI approaches align incentives within and across sectors, focusing on outcomes that matter for people and communities.
- SCI approaches have many forms but there is a process which can be followed to establish a new investment.
Get in touch
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