About Uwàmìto Consulting
Uwàmìto is an Amerindian verb of Carib origin that translates into English to mean 'to make oneself resilient'.
In many Caribbean households, a child carries two names: the one on the birth certificate and the one the family gives. My home name is Lily. It is the name my family called me long before I understood what resilience meant or why it would come to define the work of my life.
The water lily blooms in murky water, returns after the dry season, and transforms difficult terrain into something that grows. When I founded this firm, the connection between who I was raised to be and what I was building was already there. Uwàmìto made it deliberate
Uwàmìto Consulting is a Caribbean-based strategy and resilience consultancy. We partner with government ministries, NGOs, regional development agencies, CSOs, and multilateral organisations across the Caribbean and globally to turn strategy into measurable results. Our work spans strategic planning, organisational diagnostics, grant development, programme design, monitoring and evaluation, and change management.
We operate with a deliberately lean senior structure: a vetted technical team, a local-first delivery model, and fluency in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and German. We work across 15 Caribbean and Latin American countries.
We do not produce generic reports. We produce clarity, with a path forward that your team can own.
Every engagement also contributes to our 10% Impact Revolving Fund, which we allocate to a Caribbean CSO focused on youth, education, or mental health. Clients may nominate partners. This contribution is not billed to clients.
Margarita Elliot - Chief Executive Officer
About Margarita Elliot
llb, diploma in humanitarian diplomacy, mph
At home, they called me Lily. In the Caribbean, your home name is often the truest thing anyone gives you. Mine turned out to be a map.
I grew up the eldest of ten children in a rural community in Trinidad and Tobago. We spoke broken English at home and English at school, and learning to move between those worlds, to code-switch, to translate not just language but context, became one of the first skills I ever developed. It is still one of the most important ones I bring to the work I do today.
I lost three younger siblings during my teenage years and early adulthood. My baby sister passed from meningitis, a disease a vaccine could have prevented. My brother fell from a tree and needed emergency surgery, but the nearest hospital was close to two and a half hours away. These were not isolated tragedies. They were the consequences of systems that had not been designed to reach communities like ours.
My family could not afford to send me to secondary school, far less university. A bursary carried me through secondary education. I worked and saved to complete my law degree. I completed my Master's in Public Health part-time, financing it entirely on my own. Every credential I hold was a deliberate decision to equip myself for work my experience had already shown me needed to be done.
I entered the development sector in 1997. In the nearly three decades since, I have led assignments across 15 Caribbean and Latin American countries
My journey in this sector began in 1997 when I was first introduced to development methodologies. Witnessing the power of individual visioning and community consensus building, I realized how they create launching pads for positive change.
I founded Uwàmìto in 2019 to close the persistent gap between what Caribbean organisations know and what they are designed to hold. For health and development, I do not have a professional interest. I have a personal one.
If your organisation is at an inflection point, I want to hear where you are. Together, let's transform your aspirations into tangible achievements and make a lasting impact in the world we live in
