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The Umbrella Fund
Providing catalytic funding to support high-impact, data-driven solutions that enable local organizations to address systemic challenges and drive last-mile impact.
Umbrella Fund for Geospatial Interventions
Launched by Dev-Afrique, the Fund is a strategic investment initiative designed to empower local actors to deliver geospatial solutions for improved health outcomes in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
With funding from the Gates Foundation's Geospatial Insights Support Team (GIST), the Fund focuses on investing in highly impactful and feasible geospatial data investments to improve service delivery of global health and development programs at the last mile of intervention.
The Fund is built on GIST's geospatial value pipeline assessment, which unlocks the essential pillars needed to harness the value of geospatial approaches and defines geospatial development pathways.
To learn more about the geospatial ecosystem in Nigeria and the DRC, download the geospatial value pipeline assessment reports below.
How We are Driving Change
Through funding and collaboration, the Umbrella Fund for Geospatial Interventions strengthens geospatial data ecosystems to improve service delivery.
Financing Catalytic Geospatial Innovation
The Fund provides funding to support geospatial data generation, analysis, and operationalization, enabling better decision-making and service delivery.
Facilitating Shared Learning Opportunity for Growth
The fund supports collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and capacity-building to help local organizations and governments apply geospatial insights effectively.
Our Approach
The Umbrella Fund for Geospatial Interventions strengthens geospatial data ecosystems by investing in targeted solutions, collaboration, and capacity-building to improve healthcare delivery. Our approach focuses on four key pillars:
Identifying Data Gaps & Investment Opportunities
The Fund connects local initiatives with external partners, global networks, and communities of practice to foster collaboration and innovation. Strengthening these linkages ensures local insights drive meaningful solutions, making geospatial data more impactful and widely adopted.
Cross-Learning & Stakeholder Collaboration
Scaling impact requires strong coordination among governments, NGOs, and health organizations. We aim to facilitate cross-learning through expert-led sessions, case studies, and global best practices, while leveraging existing data structures to improve data-sharing and operational efficiency.
Funding & Technical Assistance
The Fund provides sub-grants to support pilot programs and catalytic interventions that improve geospatial data use in healthcare. By investing in data generation, analysis, and operationalization, we help enhance responses to polio, malaria, immunization, and other health challenges.
Partnerships & Knowledge Exchange
We work with in-country data stakeholders to assess gaps in geospatial data use and identify high-impact areas for investment. As such, tailored support to strengthening how health data is generated, analyzed, and applied ensures more effective decision-making and service delivery.
Get Funded
Apply For Funding
The Umbrella Fund invests in organizations that use geospatial data to strengthen healthcare delivery. Funding is available for pilot programs and catalytic interventions that address critical gaps in data generation, analysis, and operationalization, ensuring better decision-making and improved service delivery at the last mile of intervention.
How to Apply
1. Download the Application Document
2. Review the Funding Opportunity Areas
3. Submit Concept Note(s)
4. Evaluation & Selection
5. Funding & Implementation
Get Involved
We collaborate with funders, policymakers, and organizations to scale high-impact solutions that drive lasting change. Let us work together to create scalable, transformative solutions.
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