The Lighthouse Fund Grantee Announcement at the AVPN Global Conference 2025
Early this year, AVPN with our partners launched the Climate x Health Lighthouse Fund—a first of its kind initiative designed to close the financing gap at the intersection of climate change and public health. This fund will provide catalytic capital and foster collaborative ecosystems for urgent action, where innovative climate and health solutions can thrive and scale across Asia. Through partnerships with the Bayer Foundation, Prudence Foundation, India Health Fund, PATH, Dalberg, MovingWorlds, and SingHealth Duke-NUS, the fund reflects a collective commitment to advancing climate and health resilience in Asia.
Catalysing Innovation with Flexible Support
To unlock transformative solutions, the Lighthouse Fund provides unrestricted grants, complemented by capacity building, mentorship, and ecosystem engagement opportunities. This flexible approach ensures that grantees have the resources and freedom to strengthen their capacities, build organisational sustainability, and adapt to the evolving realities of climate and health challenges. Unrestricted support empowers organisations to innovate boldly while maintaining the agility required to deliver lasting impact.
Celebrating the First Cohort of Grantees
At the AVPN Global Conference in Hong Kong, we unveiled the five grantees of the Lighthouse Fund. Representing a diverse mix of geographies, expertise, and approaches, they share a common commitment to addressing two of the region’s most pressing climate and health challenges: heat stress and climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Their innovations showcase the power of technology, community engagement, and data-driven insights. Collectively, these initiatives aim to safeguard the most at-risk communities while strengthening resilience against the growing impacts of climate change:
- CivicDataLab Pvt. Ltd.: Expanding its intelligent data systems for disaster risk reduction into a climate and health data collaborative, integrating heat, health, vulnerability, and finance data to inform targeted interventions, unlock funding, and drive inclusive, evidence-based solutions.
- SORA Technology: Leveraging drone- and AI-assisted larval source management to target mosquito breeding sites, reducing malaria risk in climate-vulnerable regions with adaptable, region-specific interventions.
- KUMPUL Impact: Equip frontline health workers via Plataran Sehat, the Indonesia’s Ministry of Health’s digital platform, delivering localised training, mentorship, and seed funding through 120+ regional hubs to drive timely, evidence-based climate and health responses.
- William J Clinton Foundation: Strengthening urban dengue control through its Risk Intelligence Platform, integrating advanced forecasting into public health systems and driving community engagement via partnerships, expanded diagnostics, and awareness campaigns for timely detection and response.
- Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group: Driving AI-powered heat mapping to identify vulnerable homes in informal settlements and deliver low-cost cooling kits such as PET bottle insulation, reflective roofs, multi-layered roofs, and nature-based insulation while promoting heat-stable vaccines, drugs, and therapeutics to reduce climate-related health risks.
Advancing a Climate and Health Resilient Future
Through AVPN’s broader Climate x Health work, we have mapped the investment landscape, spotlighted urgent financing gaps, convened ecosystem stakeholders, and mobilised resources to address the pressing challenges at the intersection of climate and health. Together with our partners, we have built a platform that unites capital, knowledge, and collaboration to bridge silos, strengthen solutions, and accelerate scalable impact for healthier, climate-resilient communities.
The Lighthouse Fund represented a catalytic step forward. While each grantee brings a unique approach, collectively they demonstrate the catalytic power of cross-sector collaboration. Through the Lighthouse Fund, we are not only supporting innovation but also strengthening the broader climate and health ecosystem in Asia. To ensure these solutions thrive and create lasting impact, we are establishing a solution-centered Community of Practice anchored around the Lighthouse Fund—serving as a core enabler to accelerate knowledge exchange, drive joint action, and unlock resources to scale and long-term impact.
The journey ahead is both urgent and challenging, but with these grantees leading the way, with continued commitment across our network, we are one step closer to building healthier, climate-resilient communities across Asia and beyond.
