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Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 3
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). The projects that a relevant for this area are IWT035 to IWT047.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R3
Start Date:
2017-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,123,118
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 5
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)): IWT062, IWT063, IWT064, IWT065, IWT066, IWT067, IWT068, IWT069, IWT070, IWT071, IWT072, IWT073, IWT074, IWT075.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R5
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,588,554
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
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
Funding to build capacity and support cross-border action on the conservation of wildlife within countries in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The funding will be used to support KAZA countries to develop African-led trans-frontier approaches to support conservation of wildlife, including iconic species such as elephants through efforts in integrated land-use planning, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, community livelihoods and illegal wildlife trade. This funding will be used to provide technical assistance and build capacity within the KAZA countries to address areas for immediate action, provide a foundation for future work programmes and support access to wider funding options.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWT-KAZA01
Start Date:
2019-09-04
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,000,000
The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) - Bio Carbon Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
A multilateral project administered by the World Bank which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector through sustainable landscape management, whilst improving the livelihoods of forest communities. The ISFL combines upfront technical assistance with results-based finance which rewards countries which implement landscape-level approaches that reduce emissions from the forest and land-use sector. ISFL works with 5 countries: Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Zambia. Defra is supporting programmes in Indonesia and Zambia with upfront finance and potentially all countries with results based finance.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-P0004-ISFL
Start Date:
2013-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£65,100,000
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
British Academy Coherence & Impact - Challenge-led grants: Urban Infrastructures of Well-being
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This programme supports interdisciplinary research across the social and engineering sciences and the humanities looking to explore how formal and informal infrastructures interact to affect the well-being of people in cities across the Global South.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-CImChlGUWB
Start Date:
2019-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,838,971
To develop a Zambian context specific short and long term model for managing COVID-19 pandemic and future infectious disease outbreaks.
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Pandemics such as COVID-19 bring significant challenges for all health services, especially those in low-middle income countries. This trauma, emergency and critical care nursing project was developed with our established partners in Zambia, Ministry of Health, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Lusaka College of Nursing and Ndola College of Nursing, in recognition that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a short, medium and long-term impact on healthcare delivery and workforce. While funding streams may focus on the current COVID-19 pandemic itself, the likelihood of future outbreaks of COVID-19, new or known infectious diseases, cannot be discounted. Therefore, solutions must be sought to address the effects of diverting resources from an already over stretched workforce with limited resources. In Zambia, nurses are the only professional group who are present at every stage of the patient pathway, from initial contact in a rural health clinic or emergency and trauma services through inpatient services to discharge and rehabilitation. Individually they have more patient contact than all other professional groups combined. These nurses need to have increased capacity in leadership, management and clinical decision-making. These attributes, essential to prevent healthcare systems becoming overwhelmed enable nurses to identify and respond appropriately to the rapidly changing health needs that arise during outbreaks of infectious diseases and pandemics. They include the ability to develop and implement strategies for containing infected cohorts and preventing the disease spreading. Our shared needs assessment early in the pandemic. identified the urgent need to up-skill their healthcare workers for what is likely to be rapidly increasing need. These will enable them to be both proactive and reactive in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases. This project will be conducted in three phases. Phase 1: Communities engagement examines how the 73 tribes, with their own language, cultural beliefs and traditions engage with the limited community healthcare services. The nurses live alongside and with the communities they serve, and have a very wide remit, being expected to treat whoever seeks their assistance. This includes communicable and non-communicable diseases (for all age groups), public health and prevention. Consequently, the COVID-19, with its rapid onset and high, unprecedented incidence inevitably impacts adversely on services that the community relies on. Phase 2: Documentary Data Analysis will be used to analyse, interpret and national documentation, health statistics and information, to complete a gap analysis regarding COVID-19. Much of the information, guidance, education and training that the MoH have been able to access was developed in High-Income Countries, and may not be apposite for the Zambian context. Therefore, this project will identify strategies that can build on (and not adversely impact on), current Zambian health systems and structures. Phase 3: Development of processes for practice and enhanced nursing response to COVID-19, combining results from phases one and two to develop educational and clinical processes and procedures for practice; and make recommendations for policy for dealing with COVID-19. This includes planning for a possible second wave, and future infectious disease outbreaks. Deliverables from this research include recommendations for national and international policy makers. A national curriculum and competency assessment document for Bachelor of Science in Trauma and Emergency Nursing and critical care specialist practice. The sharing of outputs via webinars and virtual conference/actual conferences, and peer-reviewed journal papers. It will facilitate knowledge exchange and transfer between healthcare professionals Zambia and UK and support the establishment of an international community of practitioners with expertise in COVID-19 management.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-EP_V028197_1
Start Date:
2020-08-14
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£152,311.19
Yaba guy che ""for the guys"": Intervention co-development to increase men's HIV service use
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
In Zambia, as in other sub-Saharan African countries, men are less likely than women to access HIV services, including HIV testing services, which acts as a gateway to prevention services and the HIV care continuum. As a consequence, men are less likely than women to know their HIV positive status, men initiate HIV treatment (ART) at later stages of infection, thus experiencing higher levels of morbidity and mortality once initiated on ART. Without knowledge of their HIV status, HIV positive men are more likely to transmit HIV to their sexual partners. The barriers to men's engagement in HIV services are complex and multifaceted, and operate at national- through to individual-level. These include how healthcare services are funded, delivered and promoted, leading to healthcare facilities being seen as ""female-spaces""; harmful gender norms related to masculinity, restricting men's use of HIV-related services and influencing their perceptions regarding their peers use of HIV-related services, and men's mobility for work, limiting their ability to access health facilities operational during conventional working hours. To improve men's engagement with HIV services, including HIV prevention and treatment services, a systems-wide approach to understanding and addressing these interacting barriers to service use is needed. Through participatory qualitative research and crowdsourcing, this early phase study will work closely with men in an urban community in Lusaka, Zambia, to: 1) establish the barriers to HIV testing services and linkage to prevention and care that men perceive to be most inhibitive to their service use, and 2) co-develop a multi-component intervention to address barriers to service use. The multi-component intervention is intended to address barriers related to how and where HIV testing services are delivered, to transform norms related to HIV testing uptake and establish social support for use of HIV prevention services, in particular medical male circumcision, and initiation and uptake of ART. In parallel, we will use time location sampling to assess whether this alternative sampling method, often used to reach ""hidden populations"", could be used to evaluate the impact of the multi-component intervention in a cluster randomised trial. The intervention will be finalised through a series of workshops with men residing in the study community and other stakeholders, including district health managers and healthcare workers, with support from these groups obtained before progression to a cluster randomised trial.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_V031171_1
Start Date:
2021-05-03
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
An estimated 40% of the world’s crops are lost to pests (including insects, mites and plant pathogens), impacting on the ability of smallholder farmers to feed their families and also affecting international trade and food supply chains. By alerting them to the potential presence of pests, this project aims to enable farmers to manage outbreaks more effectively using Integrated Pest Management methods. These techniques have many advantages, such as the reduction of the use of inappropriate pesticides that lead to human and environmental benefits as well as reducing spend on unnecessary spraying.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-UKSA_NS_UKSA-031
Start Date:
2016-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£6,390,198.57
Royal Academy of Engineering Core - Frontiers of Engineering for Development
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Frontiers of Engineering for Development is a series of interdisciplinary symposia that facilitates national and international collaboration to tackle global development challenges. The event brings together a select group of around 60 emerging UK and global engineering and international development leaders from industry and academia to discuss pioneering technical work and cutting-edge research for international development from a diversity of engineering fields. Seed funding is available to progress some of the best ideas coming out of the event. COVID-19
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-RAENG-GCRF-07
Start Date:
2016-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£2,028,324.76
Royal Academy of Engineering Core - Africa Catalyst
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
GCRF Africa Catalyst aims to strengthen professional engineering bodies in sub-Saharan Africa so that they can effectively promote the profession, share best practice and increase local engineering capacity, to help drive development. This is supported by high-quality research focusing on expanding the evidence base for the importance of robust engineering institutions and the role they play in delivering sustainable growth, and mapping engineering capacity and diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-RAENG-GCRF-01
Start Date:
2016-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£2,943,489.17
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
PFA Project for P0233 (Zambia PFA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Title: PFA Project for P0233 (Zambia PFA)
Project identifier:
GB-1-101637
Start Date:
2002-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£23,045,246
Democracy and Governance in Zambia Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To address the key barriers to holding credible and fair elections focusing on interventions that will contribute to increasing confidence in the election outcome and the integrity of the polls.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-301270
Start Date:
2021-03-22
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,499,999
Empowerment and Development for Girls Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To expand access and improve education outcomes for 36,100 Girls in Zambia by increasing the number of secondary schools and improving teaching quality in rural areas
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-301240
Start Date:
2021-09-29
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£7,000,000
Tackling Maternal and Child Undernutrition Programme- Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To contribute towards improved health and nutrition status for children under two years measured primarily by a reduction in stunting by 2023.
Project identifier:
GB-1-203551
Start Date:
2012-12-10
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£30,491,456
Private Enterprise Programme Zambia Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To create investment in Zambia by building the capacity of micro, small and medium sized enterprises. The programme will aim to systematically transform the finance and investment environment for small and medium sized enterprises in Zambia, by helping companies with potential to grow and become the engine of job creation in the economy. The programme will create jobs at scale, including for women, disabled people, and rural communities with high levels of poverty. Small and medium sized enterprises supported by the programme will help to improve nutrition outcomes and improve climate resilience of smallholder farmers. It is expected that at least 5 new small and medium enterprise finance vehicles enter the Zambian market; At least 1000 small and medium sized enterprises are supported by the programme and demonstrate growth in their business; At least 50% of businesses supported should be owned or managed by women and at least 50% of the 30,000 jobs created, should be for women.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300635
Start Date:
2020-04-07
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£55,899,978
Zambia Advisory Facility
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The programme will fund independent analysis, the provision of strategic advice and the testing of frontier technologies to support agile implementation of the new UK development strategy for Zambia. It will enable DFID Zambia to build evidence or test assumptions for programming as our operating environment evolves; make quick offers of support that can win us traction and influence when windows of opportunities arise; and try potentially transformational innovations on a small scale.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300941
Start Date:
2020-01-31
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,199,999