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Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 4
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £23 million has been committed to 75 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and in the latest round in 2019. This round of funding includes the following projects (details of which can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811381/iwt-project-list-2019.pdf): IWT048, IWT049, IWT050, IWT051, IWT052, IWT053, IWT054, IWT055, IWT056, IWT057, IWT058, IWT059, IWT0760, IWT061.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R4
Start Date:
2018-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,505,210
Darwin Initiative Round 23
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide. The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the biodiversity conventions. The objective is to to address threats to biodiversity such as: - habitat loss or degradation - climate change - invasive species - over-exploitation - pollution and eutrophication.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-DAR23
Start Date:
2018-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£7,619,619
Illegible/invisibilised protracted rural displacements: slavery and forced internal migration in Mali
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Descent-based slavery and its legacies continue to prevail in most communities of the west and south of Mali today. Because of the lack of protecting legal framework, populations victims of slavery-related violence often have little choice but to escape to more 'hospitable' areas, having been systematically barred from land access in their home village by the local elite. Those populations with ascribed slave status are the poorest and the most vulnerable populations in the Sahel. In many cases though, those displaced, mostly agricultural populations continue to live in precarious conditions because of continuing marginalization and stigmatization in new host communities, with risks of new forms of servitude strongly overlapping with the legacies of historical slavery. Slavery-related displacements in West Africa have been largely overlooked in the development and humanitarian practice and reporting. This is certainly a major omission in view of the Sustainable Development Goals Our project looks at the most invisibilised historical and contemporary slavery-related internal displacements, those taking place within the rural areas in the Kayes region and which concern in their vast majority women and children because men of those communities are migrants elsewhere in cities and abroad. In such crisis situation as the one prevailing today in Mali, working with populations who are considered of 'slave descent' is thus an urgent equitable development issue. Our research programme aims not only to analyse and map the long history of slavery-related protracted displacements in the Kayes region, but more importantly we propose concrete measures to redress this unacknowledged long-term crisis situation by sensitising the local and national government in Mali at every level to anticipate and efficiently manage those 'fugitive' displacements of people with ascribed slave status. Our project team brings together a unique combination of expertise and methods in African history, comparative literature, law, social anthropology and political sciences, which are less common in development approaches. It aims at constructing a synergistic approach with transformative and catalyst effect by exploring both affordable and upscalable solutions for sustainable livelihoods and proposing directly actionable recommendations for the surveyed communities (and beyond). The transformative aspect of this research relies on bridging the gaps between practitioners and scholars in and with the surveyed communities through a website, policy papers, documentary films, teaching material, trainings, research dissemination and advocacy at appropriate policy-making levels, facilitated by two Malian partner NGOs, Donkosira and TEMEDT.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-ES_T004363_1
Start Date:
2020-02-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,416,645.30
British Academy Coherence & Impact - Challenge-led grants: Heritage, Dignity & Violence
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Tackling the challenge of achieving sustainable peace and preventing violence requires a consideration of local cultures, practices, histories and societal norms, and an understanding of how such norms are complex and contextually differentiated and intersectionally experienced. It is often the case that these considerations are not well or fully brought into policy and practice that tend to ignore aesthetic, representational, and reflective practices. New approaches that cross sectoral and disciplinary boundaries are vital in achieving a step change in this area. The projects funded under this programme demonstrate an innovative and interdisciplinary approach yielding new conceptual understandings, developing ground-breaking research and energising innovative collaborations in the humanities and social sciences.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-CImChlGHDV
Start Date:
2020-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,200,000
Royal Academy of Engineering Academies Collective Fund: Resilient Futures - Frontiers of Development
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Frontiers of Development is part of the Joint Resilient Futures Initiative which is a collaboration between all four UK Academies under the GCRF. The aim of the JRF initiative is to construct a pipeline in the UK and the developing world for interdisciplinary researchers focused on tackling development challenges in a sustainable manner.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-RAENG-GCRF-08
Start Date:
2017-10-24
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,412,850.85
Using single-cell RNAseq to investigate human malaria parasite transmission dynamics
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transmitted exclusively by mosquitoes. The greatest malaria reduction and eradication success stories have been achieved by interrupting transmission. Historically, this has been through mosquito control. Targeting the small population of specialised parasites residing in the human host that are transmitted through mosquitoes would provide a similarly powerful malaria control method but we know too little about this population. Until now, the genes expressed by parasites have been analyzed by combining millions of parasites together. This approach confounds differences between individual parasites that could underlie success in getting into another host or in resisting the drugs we use to kill the parasites. We have recently developed a method to analyse single parasites one at a time. This technological leap has allowed us to understand parasites in the laboratory with more precision than ever before and importantly to understand how one parasite may differ from another during the whole life of the parasite both in the host and in the mosquito. Although the laboratory setting and lab strains of parasites are powerful tools for understanding parasite biology, in the lab we cannot understand the full diversity of parasites that exist in the wild causing devastating consequences for infected individuals. In this project we propose to characterise wild parasites at an individual level in partnership with Malian scientists. Our exploration will allow us to characterise the three main species of malaria parasite in sub-saharan Africa on a single parasite level for the first time. We will integrate the data into an interactive website called the Malaria Cell Atlas. This will become a key resource for the research community. We will then explore the changes from one patient to the other of the deadliest malaria species in both patients that are suffering from malaria symptoms and also from infected carriers who are not suffering from malaria, both of which contribute to the overall reservoir of parasites. Altogether, we will look at more than 300,000 individual parasites and get a very deep understanding of how individual parasites are both similar and different from each other. Understanding this infectious reservoir is pivotal to identifying how parasites efficiently get from one person to the next. Altogether our findings using cutting-edge tools to explore wild parasites will be key to understanding malaria and how to best control it.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_S02445X_1
Start Date:
2019-10-02
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Capability Programme supporting HMG to further enhance the UK’s response to conflict management and resolution.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Programme will enable the FCDO's Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation to access technical experts from outside of HMG to enhance the UK’s conflict prevention, management and resolution work, as set out in the Integrated Review. The programme will also underpin the design and implementation of a cross government UK Conflict Strategic Framework with new research partnerships and deploying specialists to enable a range of interventions in countries prioritised by the conflict strategy. Technical expertise will also be channeled through strategic local and international partner organisations. Intended beneficiaries will be people in targeted countries whose lives are affected by different types of conflicts, including some of the most vulnerable such women, youth and children.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-301371
Start Date:
2021-10-21
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,024,592
Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) Phase I
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The programme will build upon existing UK support to conflict resolution funded via the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) in Mali and will take a phased approach. Phase I will respond to the most pressing and central to conflict dynamics, but also make preparations (identify the partners, develop the evidence base and test approaches) for a larger more ambitious programme to begin in 12-18 months.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-301252
Start Date:
2021-08-31
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,933,866