Manchester Global Foundation facilitated the development of a proposal submitted for the £16 million DFID Somalia SHINE Programme (Component Two) in early 2016. This call for proposals was in relation to creating and sustaining population demand for health knowledge and health care services in the current Somali Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) implementation districts. The proposal brought together five organisations operating in Somalia into the Health and Nutrition Demand Creation Services for the Somali People (HANDS) Consortium. Apart from IRC, the HANDS consortium included: Concern Worldwide, International Medical Corps (IMC), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),  and Benadir University in Mogadishu. MGF was instrumental in developing the consortium and designing the overall programme as well as facilitating and writing the final bid.