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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
Darwin Initiative Round 26
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-DAR26
Start Date:
2020-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,607,898
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 6
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 £26 million has been committed to 85 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 thirteen in 2019 and ten in the latest round in 2020. (more info here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/919053/iwt-challenge-fund-list.pdf): IWT076, IWT077, IWT078, IWT082, IWT083, IWT079, IWT080, IWT081, IWT084, IWT085
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R6
Start Date:
2020-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,417,064
Fleming Fund – Country and Regional Grants and Fellowships Programme
UK - Department of Health (DH)
The Fleming Fund helps low- and middle-income countries to fight antimicrobial resistance. A management agent has been appointed to deliver: country grants 24 low- and middle-income countries, regional grants in West Africa, East and Southern Africa, South Asia and South East Asia, and a global fellowships programme. These initiatives aim to improve laboratory capacity and diagnosis as well as data and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-10-FF_MA
Start Date:
2016-10-10
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£258,497,532.75
Birth across the Borders: exploring contextual education as a catalyst for improved maternal health.
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Families that lose a mother in pregnancy or childbirth face many challenges. They are left with a gap that can lead to a loss of income and poverty. It can cause a lot of family pressures, especially for girls are left to care for younger children and are not able to go to school. Many of these families come from communities that are already poor, with very little infrastructure and limited access to decent healthcare. This can cause a much higher risk of death, both for mothers and babies, especially in poor countries. Opportunities are more limited because families lack money and education. Myanmar is a South East Asian country that has had many years of tension and conflict between the different people groups. Many of these groups live in remote mountainous areas where basic resources and infrastructure such as electricity are limited. There is often little healthcare in these areas with very few doctors, nurses or midwives to care for mothers and their families. One in 23 women in Eastern Myanmar either die or come close to death during pregnancy or childbirth. These challenges are all very typical in developing countries across the world today, but a lot can be changed with education that makes sense to mothers and families in their situations. Working together with our local partners we intend to learn more about the specific challenges facing families in four regions of Myanmar. From this we will co-develop three education programmes which will be especially adapted for each region. One of these programmes will help families and communities understand the processes of pregnancy and birth, recognise what is normal, what is unusual and what is dangerous and to know what to do and where to go to get help. Our second programme will further train health workers to understand the different signs and symptoms that are dangerous in pregnancy and birth and find ways to help mothers in time to prevent complications. Poverty is very high in parts of Myanmar, so our third programme is for community leaders and local people to support them to start and grow businesses. This way families can afford to eat well and get good healthcare when they need it. Our project will focus on remote regions in Myanmar and together we plan to learn how to find ways to overcome the legacy of many years of poverty and conflict. This project will include staff from our universities in Northern Ireland and Thailand as well as local partners who come from or have been working in the region for many years. Through this project we hope to help support the work of all our partners and improve education for mothers, families and communities. A key part of our project is making sure that the education they receive makes sense in their situations and includes their beliefs and customs leading to improved health, social and economic opportunities and accessible healthcare. We plan to share what we do with other organisations working in Myanmar who may also benefit from our research. Finally, it is hoped that our research will contribute to current policies and practices in partnership with the government of Myanmar and the ethnic health organisations.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-ES_T004983_1
Start Date:
2020-02-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,761,027.10
British Academy Coherence & Impact - Early Careers Research Network
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme of activities is tailored for early career researchers in the UK and the Global South to develop research partnerships, strengthen capacity and build research skills related to joint UK-Global South research agendas.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-BACImECRN
Start Date:
2019-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,521,968
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 Core - Engineering a Better World
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Engineering a Better World is a unique programme focused on achieving sustainable development, through innovative, collaborative, challenge-led engineering. COVID-19
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-RAENG-GCRF-04
Start Date:
2019-09-16
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,338,436
British Academy Coherence & Impact - Youth Futures
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
The projects funded under this programme support research which brings a much-needed youth-led perspective on the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. They involve genuine interdisciplinarity, collaborative work that extends beyond the standard research model, and policy thinking based on close understanding of, and working with, young people at various stages of ‘getting by’.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-CImYF
Start Date:
2020-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,760,000
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-3-CSSF
Start Date:
2017-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,168,915,063
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
A global programme supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources, benefitting poor forest-dependent people and promoting sustainable growth in developing countries.
Project identifier:
GB-1-201724
Start Date:
2011-08-18
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£281,275,425
Disaster Risk Insurance
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To improve the resilience of the private sector in poor countries to natural disasters by improving access to insurance products. By supporting the development of a market for private sector disaster risk insurance in developing countries, the project will sustainably help strengthen resilience, mitigate the effects of climate change and supporting economic development through private sector growth.
Project identifier:
GB-1-203809
Start Date:
2016-12-12
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£39,893,624
Burma Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To save lives, reduce poverty and suffering of 400,000 crisis affected people in Burma and Burmese refugees in Thailand through providing humanitarian assistance, enhancing resilience and building local and international organisations’ capacity to respond to future humanitarian need in Burma
Project identifier:
GB-1-204196
Start Date:
2015-11-25
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£146,011,583
Improving the management of public funds for the benefit of people in Myanmar
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To improve the use of public finances so that they benefit the people of Myanmar. The expected results include contributing to increasing tax collection from large tax payers by 40% by 2020. The UK will fund a World Bank led programme to work with the Ministry of Planning and Finance to improve their ability to manage public funds and the capacity of parliament to provide oversight of public spending. The programme will also separately support tax administration, fiscal decentralisation, social accountability, and Myanmar’s involvement in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Project identifier:
GB-1-203996
Start Date:
2014-03-04
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£25,146,699
Myanmar UK Health Partnership Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The UK will invest £97m over five years to develop the Burma-UK Healthcare Partnership. The partnership will: involve UK health Institutions to develop skills-based medical education, training and accreditation in Burma, together with support to related reforms to strengthen health systems; combat global health threats through stemming the spread of drug-resistant malaria and drug-resistant tuberculosis; and improve health care in conflict-affected ethnic areas as part of the UK’s peace-building support. The partnership will contribute to UK commitments to improve access to family planning, nutrition interventions and to effective treatment of malaria.
Project identifier:
GB-1-204189
Start Date:
2018-08-10
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£92,503,447
Livelihoods and Food Security Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To deliver immediate support to the most vulnerable in urban and rural contexts in response to the impact of Covid-19 over the last year and the February coup. It will supplement humanitarian responses in Rakhine and Kachin, supporting community and household resilience to maintain future productive capacity, and bolster community nutrition and food security. United Kingdom support will meet Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Myanmar’s new strategic priorities to support the most vulnerable, reaching 1 million more poor and excluded people. In addition, the programme will provide direct support to raise the income and nutrition of displaced people, and conflict-affected people in urban contexts including migrants, and the rural poor.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-301183
Start Date:
2021-07-26
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£19,000,000
Myanmar UK Partnership for Education .
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
MUPE is to improve the reach and quality of education services in Burma and help prepare Burma’s youth with the skills they need for life after school with the focus on English language, teacher education, examination systems, and education in protracted crises where the UK has a particular comparative advantage. The programme aims to reach up to 51,000 teacher educators, teacher trainees and teachers. Through Education Reform Facility, it intends to support priority reforms on assessment and examination in Burma’s National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) with impact on 9 million children of which support for up to 73,000 will be attributable to FCDO. And it aims to support improved schooling in conflict-affected and ethnic areas to help 460,000 children in conflict-affected areas access better quality education, of which up to 46,000 attributable to FCDO.
Project identifier:
GB-1-204193
Start Date:
2018-01-24
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£20,686,232
Second phase of DFID's Support to the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG).
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The aim of PIDG is to mobilise private investment in infrastructure, in order to increase service provision for the poor, boost economic growth, trade and jobs to alleviate poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300351
Start Date:
2018-05-11
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£437,963,726
PIDG: Core Support to Private Infrastructure Development Group
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Increased responsible private sector participation in sustainable infrastructure in poorer developing countries through increased flows of private capital & expertise.This will benefit an additional 105.1 million people by the end of 2015.
Project identifier:
GB-1-203232
Start Date:
2012-03-13
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£515,721,939
Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The UK will provide up to £165m over 5 years in two phases of £82.5m. The programme will provide technical support on city and regional interventions in 3 focus countries, Myanmar, Uganda and Zambia resulting in increased inclusive economic growth and job creation. The interventions will help city economies to become more productive, deliver access to reliable, affordable, renewable power for businesses and households, and strengthen investment into infrastructure services, including from the UK.
Project identifier:
GB-1-205222
Start Date:
2017-06-22
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£165,591,745