The Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE) is a multidonor facility established in 2012 to strengthen awareness, knowledge, and capacity for gender-informed policy making. The UFGE is a multi-donor trust fund designed to enable the road-testing of innovative solutions to close key gender gaps and generate rigorous evidence of what works and what does not. The UFGE promotes results by equipping policy makers and development experts with data, knowledge, and evidence. The facility allocates grants on a programmatic basis, supporting individual initiatives that clearly align with the objectives of the WBG Gender Strategy and interlink to form a comprehensive approach to gender equality.

The UFGE supports work across all four pillars of the WBG�s Gender Strategy � closing first generation gaps in health and education, creating more and better jobs, closing gender gaps in ownership and control over physical and financial assets, and enhancing women�s voice and leadership in sector governance and through prevention and response to gender-based violence.