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Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The LDN Fund invests in projects which reduce or reverse land degradation and thereby contribute to ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’. The LDN Fund is co-promoted by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova. It is a public-private partnership using public money to increase private sector investment in sustainable development. The fund invests in sustainable agriculture, forestry and other land uses globally. The Fund was launched at the UNCCD’s COP 13 in China in 2017.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-PO009-LDN
Start Date:
2019-12-12
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£10,000,000
Low Carbon Agriculture for avoided deforestation and poverty reduction - Phase 2
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The programme operates in the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes in Brazil, over the course of four years (2017 - 2024). As a follow-up phase to a similar ICF intervention in Brazil, the programme aims to restore deforested and degraded land on small- and medium-sized farms and will target the barriers experienced by farmers in accessing rural credit.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-PO013-LCP2
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,420,000
Brazil - Newton Advanced Fellowship
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Awards for early to mid-career international researchers who have already established (or in process of establishing) a research group. Awards support researchers in their own country, providing funding for training and development in collaboration with a UK partner, with the intention of transferring knowledge and research capabilities to partner countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-AMS_BRA_NAF0010
Start Date:
2019-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£305,415
Brazil - Newton International Fellowship
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Scheme supports early-career international researchers to spend two years undertaking research at a host university or research institution in the UK, enabling them to benefit from a period within a first class research environment in some of the UK’s best universities. Awards provide stipend, research monies, and relocation costs.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-AMS_BRA_NIF0006
Start Date:
2019-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£640,733
Brazil - Researcher Links Workshop Grants
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Brazil - Researcher Links Workshop Grants is funded through the UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Newton Fund and delivered on the UK side by the British Council. This activity contributes to the Newton Fund’s work in building research and innovation partnerships with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-BC_BRA_193
Start Date:
2014-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£9,006
Brazil - Institutional Links
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Brazil - Institutional Links is funded through the UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Newton Fund and delivered on the UK side by the British Council. This activity contributes to the Newton Fund’s work in building research and innovation partnerships with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-BC_BRA_190
Start Date:
2015-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£426,614.60
Brazil - Newton Fund Impact Scheme
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Brazil - Newton Fund Impact Scheme is funded through the UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Newton Fund and delivered on the UK side by the British Council. This activity contributes to the Newton Fund’s work in building research and innovation partnerships with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NF-BCBRNFIS-NFIS-2019
Start Date:
2020-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£58,610
CHArMING - Control of Hypertension and diAbetes in MINas Gerais
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
In Brazil, the frequency of adults with high blood pressure is around 35%, while diabetes is self-reported in 6.2%. Getting treatment for hypertension and diabetes can avoid people having difficulty managing their illness and their problems getting worse. Limited access to health services and few health workers to support have led to deficiencies in treatment, outcomes and quality of life of hypertensive and diabetic patients. In Minas Gerais state, the university and hospital established a Telehealth Network, in 2005, to use digital health solutions to improve access and quality to health care. A specific intervention in hypertension and diabetes was developed with positive results in the HealthRise project (2016-2018), in the Northeast of Minas Gerais, a remote region with limited number of health resources. The present project will develop a framework to implement this intervention in a larger number of primary health care (PHC) units, using these locations to improve the management of patients with high blood pressure and diabetes. Training and clinical support developed by UFMG allow health workers in different roles to use the software and clinical workflows during a patient's visit to the PHC. The staff receives guidance and support from the software and additional specialist medical input to help managing hypertension and diabetes using the ""best practice"". Additionally the software contacts the patient via SMS to check in on the patient regularly, to help remind them about medication, activities and lifestyle changes such as diet that would help them manage and control their disease, empowering them in self-care when away from the care teams. The health care workers also participate in further online and face to face training to help continually develop understanding of the management of these patients. In the fist part of the project, over the first two years, the teams from the different organisations will work with clinical staff, researchers, software designers, and trainers, to look and improve the intervention and software tools as they are currently being used. In the second part of the project, in years three to five, the teams will undertake a study in the Mucury Valley to compare the use of the intervention and training across the 34 primary health centres: one half of the sites will be given the software and training to treat and manage their patients, and the other half the sites will continue to treat and manage patients in the standard way. This will be a significant step to evaluate this innovation that has been developed within Brazil and look at how best to support this approach at scale to the wider state or country, reaching many communities living in poor urban and rural settings and reducing the burden of these diseases in this continental country.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_T02528X_1
Start Date:
2019-11-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
GCRF_NF345 Tackling Covid19 through co-production: engaging Brazilian vulnerable communities in facing the consequences of pandemics
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
There is a long history of disconnection and lack of trust between vulnerable communities (slums and favelas) and public authorities in Brazil, due to diverse reasons, including failures in service delivery (e.g., sanitation, education, health), overuse of violence by the police force, and the presence of militias (parastatal power). Many social interventions for COVID-19 prevention and control require co-operation from citizens to be effective. Local communities and their local leaders know their daily needs, their areas, and the social environment better than the government. To cope with COVID- 19, and similar future crises, members of the vulnerable community need to be engaged as part of the solution, and given voice. Our proposal aims to enact co-production with members of these communities and municipal councils. Such councils are already established all over the country. The project will promote an exercise on co-production to design tactics and solutions to prepare neighborhoods for facing future interventions, and in particular vaccine delivery (SDGs goals 3, 10,11,16). Such co-production space would open up opportunities to share information, give voice to local leaders and community members. It is about increasing resilience, reducing social vulnerability, rebuilding trust, through co-production to cope with pandemic outbreaks. The process includes four stages: (i) identification of ""successful collective strategies"" in vulnerable areas of two Brazilian capital cities (Belem and São Paulo), looking at the determinants of such action, by interviews, (ii) extending the understanding through an extensive survey to others communities from the same cities, (iii) developing a mobile application to create a co-production milieu supporting people to jointly act with municipal councils, (iv) rolling out the initiative to others urban areas disseminating the results.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-EP_V043153_1
Start Date:
2020-10-27
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£80,815.24
GCRF_NF437 High Performance Low Cost Ventilator (HPLV) project
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
The unmet need addressed by the High Performance Low-cost Ventilator (HPLV) project is the shortage of ventilators for patient care in OECD DAC list countries. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has highlighted this lack of ventilators which is in-turn compounded by a shortage of trained staff available to operate them. Beyond COVID-19, there remain the critical requirements of caring for pneumonia patients and others suffering from acute respiratory conditions in the OECD DAC-list countries. This project takes as its starting point the HEV (High Energy physics Ventilator) developed by the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva with advice and guidance from WHO with the aim of being suitable for OECD DAC list use. HEV has been developed using techniques routinely used in the context of CERN research, including for delivery and regulation of gases, and for sophisticated monitoring and control. Nevertheless, HEV was designed to be reasonably priced, robust, easily maintained and able to operate in an environment where oxygen supply pressure is variable, power is unreliable and few trained staff are available. The result is a resilient and simple design with comprehensive in-built options for remote training, monitoring, and operation, which does not compromise on either performance or functionality, but allows easy operation via a multi-lingual user interface. Within this HPLV project, partners in Brazil will identify local difficulties encountered when ventilating patients and input that information to the design team working on re-engineering the HEV ventilator into an HPLV design. Regulatory experts in the UK will also provide valuable guidance on this re-engineering activity. As well as re-engineering an HPLV prototype in line with real-world advice from Brazil, the HPLV project team will provide the necessary documentation to accompany the HPLV design, such that it is ready for regulatory approval. This is a key milestone to enabling commercial organisations to bridge the gap between prototyping and manufacture for use in a medical environment. The end point of this project will be reached when the new re-engineered HPLV prototype has been successfully tested in Brazil and the technical file is available for companies to use when they license the design for manufacture and sale to OECD DAC list users.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-EP_V043129_1
Start Date:
2020-10-27
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£767,965.50
Newton Mobility Grants (Year 7 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme supports researchers in Newton Fund countries to develop collaborations with UK researchers. These awards are particularly suited to initiate new collaborative partnerships, between scholars who have not previously worked together, or new initiatives between scholars who have collaborated in the past.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_948
Start Date:
2020-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£60,000
Newton Advanced Fellowships (Year 5 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme focuses on mid-career researchers in Newton Fund countries, and develops their research strengths by providing support for training and development in collaboration with a UK partner with the intention of transferring knowledge and research capabilities to researchers in partner countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_908
Start Date:
2018-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£348,760
Newton Advanced Fellowships (Year 6 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme focuses on mid-career researchers in Newton Fund countries, and develops their research strengths by providing support for training and development in collaboration with a UK partner with the intention of transferring knowledge and research capabilities to researchers in partner countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_909
Start Date:
2019-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£324,430
Newton International Fellowships (Year 5 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Enables talented early career post-doctoral researchers from partner countries to spend two consecutive years undertaking research at a UK host institute. The fellowship supports talented early career researchers from partner countries to develop their research capabilities by hosting them with some of the best research departments in the UK.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_910
Start Date:
2018-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£98,382.19
Newton International Fellowships (Year 6 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Enables talented early career post-doctoral researchers from partner countries to spend two consecutive years undertaking research at a UK host institute. The fellowship supports talented early career researchers from partner countries to develop their research capabilities by hosting them with some of the best research departments in the UK.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_911
Start Date:
2020-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£176,533
Newton Mobility Grants (Year 5 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme supports researchers in Newton Fund countries to develop collaborations with UK researchers. These awards are particularly suited to initiate new collaborative partnerships, between scholars who have not previously worked together, or new initiatives between scholars who have collaborated in the past.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_912
Start Date:
2018-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£38,000
Newton Mobility Grants (Year 6 Round 1)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme supports researchers in Newton Fund countries to develop collaborations with UK researchers. These awards are particularly suited to initiate new collaborative partnerships, between scholars who have not previously worked together, or new initiatives between scholars who have collaborated in the past.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_913
Start Date:
2019-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£54,366
GCRF_NF123: COVID-19, social distancing and violence against women in Brazil (BRAVE)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Domestic violence against women (DVAW) is a major issue in Brazil. It tends to disproportionally affect women of disadvantaged backgrounds, putting them at a higher risk of poverty and potentially increasing gender-based inequities. Commentators have linked social distancing measures introduced in Brazil to address the spread of COVID-19 to significant increases in DVAW cases, with similar reports in other countries. COVID-19 cases in Brazil are forecast to keep increasing, likely leading to further social distancing measures in the near future, making our research urgent to understand how policies can better protect vulnerable women and reduce the broader impacts of these measures to society. BRAVE seeks to understand how social distancing measures affect DVAW and assess the resulting societal costs of such effect. To this end, we will analyse information on DVAW and its link to social distancing adherence, poverty and the financial cost of DVAW to victims and society, focusing on Brazilian cities. We will also examine how public policies aimed at mitigating the negative consequences of social distancing influence DVAW, and how these policies could be refined to better address DVAW. We will work closely with both the local academic community and representatives of public and other organisations, to offer guidance to improve public policies for DVAW victims in the pandemic context, for Brazil and potentially other countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-EP_V029088_1
Start Date:
2020-08-21
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£220,063.14
Newton Advanced Fellowships (Year 4 Round 2)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme focuses on mid-career researchers in Newton Fund countries, and develops their research strengths by providing support for training and development in collaboration with a UK partner with the intention of transferring knowledge and research capabilities to researchers in partner countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_900
Start Date:
2018-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£496,320
Newton Mobility Grants (Year 4 Round 2)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme supports researchers in Newton Fund countries to develop collaborations with UK researchers. These awards are particularly suited to initiate new collaborative partnerships, between scholars who have not previously worked together, or new initiatives between scholars who have collaborated in the past.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-NEWT-RS_BRA_868
Start Date:
2018-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£109,296.01