5 Bold Predictions for 1000 Days Fund The 1000 Days Fund is at a pivotal moment. Here’s what you can expect from us in 2026 and beyond.

• The 1000 Days Fund Will Embrace AI, But Not the Way you Think
• We Challenge the Status Quo, Creating a Pipeline of 5, 10, 15, 25 of the Most Innovative Maternal Health NGOs in Indonesia
• Indonesia’s First Locally-Led Health Movement Will Redefine What “Scale” Means for the Global South
• Our Model—4×4—Becomes the Norm for Pregnant Moms in Indonesia
• Trust Will Become Indonesia’s Most Valuable Health Commodity

AI Will Turn Monitoring & Evaluation Into a Daily, Real-Time Feedback Loop

Within three years, every household visit conducted by a 1000 Days Fund-trained health worker will generate usable data within 24 hours, not 24 weeks. Using AI-led qualitative tools like Colectiv, the TDF will move from static surveys to dynamic learning, where district offices can see barriers emerging in real time and fix them before they grow. Impact measurement will stop being an exercise in compliance and become part of daily management. This shift—cheap, fast, and deeply human—will inspire a new generation of NGOs to rethink monitoring systems as engines for learning, not reporting.

The Black Licorice Fund Will Spark Indonesia’s First Homegrown Wave of Mission-Driven Founders

By 2030, the Black Licorice Fund (a 1000 Days Fund venture) will have seeded 25 Indonesian-led organizations tackling maternal malnutrition and stunting and in doing so, rewrite the rules of how global development discovers and funds talented founders. The model flips the donor script: instead of waiting for permission or external validation, established nonprofits like the 1000 Days Fund will fund the future, channeling their own unrestricted budgets to back early-stage local founders long before big philanthropy can.

These founders—coached, mentored, and connected through the Black Licorice—will form Indonesia’s first tight-knit ecosystem of maternal health innovators: a peer-driven network capable of influencing national systems and donor priorities. Some will scale to Skoll or Mulago; others will remain small and insurgent by design. But their collective impact will prove something radical—that you don’t need foreign money or institutional gatekeepers to build lasting systems change. You just need the courage to bet on your own.

1000 Days Will Deliver the Blueprint to Guarantee Indonesia’s Children are Carried Safely Across the 1000-day Threshold

By 2030, Indonesia will be the first low- and middle-income country to guarantee four formal health facility visits and four in-home malnutrition screenings for every mother and child during the first thousand days of life. The 1000 Days Fund’s integrated model—starting at week 14 of pregnancy and continuing until a child’s second birthday—will create a seamless system where prevention happens at every doorstep and every data point strengthens care.

By 2032, the 1000 Days Fund’s model will help Indonesia drive national stunting rates below 10%, achieving what once seemed impossible, without adding billions to the health budget. The difference won’t come from more infrastructure or donors, but from precision efficiency: AI-powered feedback loops identifying weak points in real time, CHWs equipped with smarter tools, and community-based prevention replacing costly hospital interventions. Economists will call it the “Indonesia Effect”—proof that smarter systems beat bigger spending. The takeaway will ripple across the Global South: success isn’t about how much you spend, but how wisely you trust the women doing the work.

This approach will redefine how nations measure universal health coverage—not by the number of hospitals built, but by the continuity of care from home to clinic. The results will speak for themselves: earlier detection of malnutrition, fewer low-birthweight babies, sharper declines in stunting, and stronger, more resilient families. Indonesia will become living proof that the world’s most powerful health system isn’t the most expensive one—it’s the one that never lets a mother fall through the cracks.

By 2030, Indonesia will become the first country to measure trust as a health indicator alongside immunization rates and growth monitoring. Using behavioral insights, AI-led qualitative tracking, and on-the-ground data from community health workers, trust between mothers and the health system will become quantifiable—predicting outcomes more accurately than household income or access to care. When the WHO finally updates the global maternal and child health framework, it will cite Indonesia’s “Trust Index” as a transformative tool for predicting stunting reduction and program success. What was once soft power—empathy, reliability, connection—will become hard data.

The next decade will prove that trust is measurable, and it will become a performance indicator as tangible as vaccination rates or anemia reduction. The Fund’s model of consistent mentoring, empathetic counseling, and community-based systems will institutionalize “trust metrics” — a concept now gaining global academic attention. Backed by data from the Behavioral Insights Team and the Research Advisory Board, these metrics will demonstrate that when trust grows, stunting falls. That evidence will not only shape Indonesia’s health strategy, but influence ministries and multilaterals worldwide to invest in relationships as infrastructure.