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Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariff (GETFiT)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Global Energy Transfer for Feed-in Tariff (GET FiT) Programme was established in 2013 with the main objective of assisting Uganda to pursue a climate resilient low-carbon development path by facilitating private sector investments in renewable electricity generation projects. The support provided was expected to improve access to electricity and promote growth and economic development in Uganda and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Understanding adverse drug reactions to dolutegravir and isoniazid in HIV-positive Ugandans: incidence, risk factors, management and patient-reporting
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC ARL to improve the health of PLHIV in Uganda through understanding the population-specific incidence, characteristics and risk factors for ADRs and embedding ADR-reporting by PLHIV in Uganda's healthcare system
Hydroxyurea - Pragmatic Reduction In Mortality and Economic burden (H-PRIME)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC/JGHT award aiming to conduct a policy changing trial to address three key interventions that could make a substantial difference to the lives of children born with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in lowincome regions in subSaharan Africa
MRC funding for Programmes and Awards at MRC Uganda Unit
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC funding for Programmes and Awards at MRC Uganda Unit - Science is delivered through six programmes feeding into each theme, including HIV Epidemiology and Intervention, Cancer Epidemiology, Social Aspects of Health Across the Life-Course, Pathogen Genomics Phenotype and Immunity, Immunomodulation and Vaccines, and NCD Phenotyping.
Improving access to asthma care for children and adolescents in Uganda
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC ARL award to understand whether innovations like checking every child and adolescent visiting primary care health facilities for asthma symptoms can lead to an increase in the number of children diagnosed with asthma, and whether education about asthma directed to patients and their caregivers can lead to improvements in the understanding of asthma, use of medicines and subsequent reduction in frequency of symptoms.
Establishing and enhancing veterinary surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This project aims to help establish effective surveillance for longer term capacity building for AMR in the terrestrial and aquatic veterinary sectors in selected LMICs, and to enhance veterinary medicines regulatory training.
Global Programme on Sustainability
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The programme supports sustainable economic growth that is both long-lasting and resilient to climate-related stressors. It does this through the integration of natural capital into decision making by governments, the private sector and financial institutions. The inability to value natural capital can undermine long-term growth and critically, the livelihoods of the poorest people dependent on ecosystems for their livelihoods. This programme directly addresses this challenge by (i) investing in data and research on natural capital; (ii) assisting countries to integrate this analysis into government policy making; and (iii) integrating this data and analysis into financial sector decision making.
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a widespread and lucrative criminal activity causing major global environmental and social harm. The IWT has been estimated to be worth up to £17 billion a year. Nearly 6,000 different species of fauna and flora are impacted, with almost every country in the world playing a role in the illicit trade. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products and is a long-standing leader in efforts to eradicate the IWT. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling IWT 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. By 2023 over £51 million has been committed to 157 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013. This page contains information about Rounds 7 onwards. For information about Rounds 1 to 6, please see the IWTCF website -https://iwt.challengefund.org.uk/
Darwin Initiative
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Darwin Initiative is the UK’s flagship international challenge fund for biodiversity conversation and poverty reduction, established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The Darwin Initiative is a grant scheme working on projects that aim to slow, halt, or reverse the rates of biodiversity loss and degradation, with associated reductions in multidimensional poverty. To date, the Darwin Initiative has awarded more than £195m to over 1,280 projects in 159 countries to enhance the capability and capacity of national and local stakeholders to deliver biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction outcomes in low and middle-income countries. More information at https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/the-darwin-initiative. This page contains information about Rounds 27 onwards. For information about Rounds 1 to 26, please see the Darwin Initiative website -https://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/
The Africa Power Platform PCC
British International Investment plc
The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) is the for-profit agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). It works to stimulate the private sectors of developing economies, providing capital for investment into long-lasting and sustainable development initiatives. All profits are reinvested in further development.Its industrials and infrastructure arm, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), works on infrastructure, agribusiness, packaging and telecommunications projects in Africa and Asia.
Bujagali Energy Limited
British International Investment plc
Bujagali Energy Ltd owns and operates a 250MW hydro power plant on the Nile river in Uganda. The power plant was commissioned in 2012 and supplies energy to the Ugandan electricity grid.
Klinchenberg B.V.
British International Investment plc
Klinchenberg B.V. (also known as the Scatec-Norfund-BII Africa Hydropower Joint Venture) is a joint venture we are entering with Norfund and Scatec, a leading renewable energy solutions provider, to invest in hydropower projects across Africa in a huge boost to the continent’s renewable energy.
Grofin Africa Fund
British International Investment plc
The Fund provides finance to companies which fall above the microfinance sector and below private equity across sub-Saharan Africa
DI Frontier Market Energy & Carbon Fund
British International Investment plc
This is an East Africa-focused renewable energy fund.
DI Frontier Market Energy & Carbon Fund
British International Investment plc
This is an East Africa-focused renewable energy fund.
Africa Renewable Energy Fund
British International Investment plc
The Africa Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) invests in small hydro, wind, geothermal, stranded gas, and solar projects across sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa.AREF, which is managed by Berkeley Energy, is one of the first pan-African private equity funds focused on developing renewable energy infrastructure.
Ascent Rift Valley Fund I
British International Investment plc
Ascent Rift Valley Fund I is the firm’s maiden fund. The fund aims to provide growth capital to small and medium-sized enterprises in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.
BluePeak Private Capital Fund
British International Investment plc
BluePeak is an impact-driven private capital fund investing in mid-market businesses operating in Africa across several sectors through privately negotiated subordinated & mezzanine instruments. The fund reached a first close in 2021 and completed a second close in September 2023.
Bujagali Energy Limited
British International Investment plc
Bujagali is a 250 MW Run-of-the-river hydropower plant on the Nile river in Uganda. The refinancing will lead to a reduction in Bujagali's 16% generation tariff which is estimated to lead to a 1.3% increase in output from industry and the creation of 30,000 jobs.
M-KOPA (Uganda)
British International Investment plc
Headquartered in Nairobi, M-Kopa is one of Africa?s fastest growing, pay-as-you-go solar energy companies. It currently provides off-grid energy to 500,000 low-income households in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. East Africa suffers from a poor infrastructure, which makes power inaccessible to many households, as well as unreliable and expensive. M-Kopa is a solar-powered system that gives its predominantly low-income customer base access to lighting, phone charging, radio and TV on daily mobile money payment plans that are less than the typical cost of kerosene.