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Empowering Local Solutions. Driving Last-Mile Impact

The Umbrella Fund is an investment initiative providing small-scale catalytic funding to local organizations in low and middle income countries (LMICs) to deliver high-impact, data-driven solutions that strengthen systems and achieve last-mile impact

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About the Umbrella Fund

Established in 2024, the Umbrella Fund accelerates systemic change through strategic, locally led interventions. Operating through a flexible, multi-track structure, the Fund supports initiatives that harness data and innovation to address critical development challenges. Each intervention aims to expand access, strengthen service delivery, and drive sustainable impact, particularly at the last mile.

Our Core Principles

Catalyzing high-potential, scalable solutions

Empowering local leadership and ownership

Advancing data-driven, evidence-based decision-making

With centralized governance and oversight, the Fund supports interventions across sectors such as health and agriculture, with the flexibility to respond to evolving needs over time.

Our First Intervention: The Umbrella Fund for Geospatial Interventions

Strengthening Geospatial Data Ecosystems

The Fund's inaugural intervention focuses on strengthening geospatial data ecosystems to improve the planning, delivery, and monitoring of public health services. This initiative was informed by the Geospatial Value Pipeline assessments conducted in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing systemic gaps in geospatial data generation, analysis, and operationalization of geospatial data — with the health sector emerging as a critical area of application and opportunity.

Through this intervention, the Fund supports local organizations to:

Build national and sub-national geospatial data capacity

Integrate geospatial insights into public health decision-making

Strengthen institutional systems for sustained geospatial data use

While health is the initial focus, the intervention is structured to enable broader applications of geospatial insights across future development sectors.

Current Country Engagements

The Fund is currently active in:

Nigeria

Supporting the institutionalization of geospatial and health data training within accredited academic and professional institutions.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Building regional hubs to expand geospatial data capacity for provincial health systems.

All awards are made exclusively to legally registered local organizations. The Fund does not provide funding to individuals or unregistered entities.

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