LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP) is pleased to announce a renewed and expanded partnership with ARMMAN, to strengthen maternal and child health systems and accelerate progress toward an integrated continuum of care for women and children in India.
ARMMAN leverages technology-enabled "tech plus touch" models to bridge critical gaps in preventive healthcare, high-risk pregnancy management, and early childhood nutrition. By combining digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and frontline health worker engagement, ARMMAN is helping strengthen public health systems and improve access to timely, life-saving information and care for mothers and children across India.
Through this renewed partnership, LGT VP will support ARMMAN in two interconnected areas. First, it will strengthen ARMMAN's core digital health platforms, including next-generation mobile and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled tools, while supporting organisational capabilities, evidence generation and long-term sustainability. Second, it will support ARMMAN's role within SIRA, LGT VP's early childhood development collective in India, where ARMMAN will contribute as a health and nutrition anchor for integrated care from pregnancy to the early years of a child's life.
As part of the SIRA collective, ARMMAN will work closely with ecosystem partners to design and test integrated models of care that bring together health, nutrition, early learning and caregiving support for families. These models aim to create a more seamless experience for mothers and caregivers, while generating evidence for scalable approaches that can be embedded within government systems. The partnership reflects LGT VP's continued commitment to strengthening public systems and supporting locally rooted organisations that can deliver impact at scale. LGT VP has worked with ARMMAN over multiple years and will continue to provide both financial and non-financial support as the organisation deepens its role as a systems partner to government.
Dr Aparna Hegde, Founder and Managing Trustee, ARMMAN, said: "LGT Venture Philanthropy has been a strategic partner in ARMMAN's growth journey, supporting our programmes and our institutional capacity to scale sustainably. This renewed partnership will help us strengthen our next-generation digital health platforms, expand the use of AI to improve programme effectiveness, and work alongside partners in the SIRA collective to demonstrate integrated models of care that can be adopted within public health systems. Together, we are building solutions that are designed for scale, evidence-driven, and centred on the needs of mothers, children and frontline health workers."
Archish Gupta, Senior Investment Manager, LGT Venture Philanthropy, said: "ARMMAN has consistently demonstrated how technology, when combined with human touch and strong government collaboration, can strengthen maternal and child health systems at scale. Through this renewed partnership, we are excited to support ARMMAN’s next phase of growth and its SIRA aligned role in building a more integrated continuum of care for mothers and young children. ARMMAN’s work is critical to ensuring that health, nutrition and caregiving support reach families at the right time, through systems that can sustain and scale. "
LGT Venture Philanthropy (LGT VP) is an independent charitable foundation established in 2007 with partners in Switzerland, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India. The Foundation strives to improve the quality of life of people facing disadvantages, contribute to healthy ecosystems, and build resilient, inclusive, and prosperous communities. LGT VP focuses on strengthening the capabilities of locally rooted organisations that deliver effective, scalable solutions across health, education, and the environment, contributing directly to the SDGs. For more information, please visit www.lgtvp.com.
ARMMAN is an India-based non-profit organisation working to improve maternal, newborn and child health through scalable technology-enabled solutions. Its blended “tech plus touch” model uses mobile health platforms, digital content, artificial intelligence and frontline worker engagement to improve health-seeking behaviour among pregnant women and mothers, strengthen high-risk pregnancy management, and build the capacity of health workers. ARMMAN works closely with government systems to improve access to timely information and care for women and children across India. ARMMAN has touched the lives of more than 81 million women, children and families and trained 580,000 health workers across 27 states in India. For more information, please visit www.armman.org.
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