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Westminster Foundation for Democracy: Official Development Assistance (ODA): budgets & payments
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Funding for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy to promote legitimate and effective, multi-party democracy in developing countries
Climate Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support delivery of the COP26 health programme commitments and improve the climate-resilience and low-carbon sustainability of global health systems.
Promoting Equalities Regional Programme (PEP-Regional)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will build capabilities on gender and equalities through scaling up provision of practical advice, technical expertise, and support to posts and regions. The programme will strengthen bridges between posts and central teams, sharing evidence, lessons and best practice. It will support posts to identify and act on opportunities through policy, ODA programmes, and diplomacy to meet our raised ambition. Posts will be better able to navigate available FCDO resources, including centres of expertise and Helpdesk facilities, including those covering disability, violence against women and girls and LGBT+ rights. By bringing together UK influence, investment, expertise and evidence, this programme will strengthen progress on tackling gender and equalities and bring about wider benefits through investing in people and in capabilities. The programme will be delivered predominantly through additional regional gender and equality advisory roles.
Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises - 2023-26
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support to Education Cannot Wait - the global fund for education in emergencies - to support the most marginalised children affected by conflict and crises with protection and access to education. Invest in strategic partnerships that will work alongside ECW to reach more crisis-affected children.
Centre for Delivery's Solutions Hub (Solutions Hub)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Solutions Hub aims to improve the quality and efficiency of FCDO programme design, delivery and reviews through: • Targeted support to FCDO Delivery Teams, particularly on complex or innovative programmes; • Evidence-based advice on the best value delivery options; and, • Coordinating, signposting and providing guidance and expert challenge to improve delivery and monitoring of programmes.
Security and Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will increase UK effectiveness in preventing or reducing conflict through the application of stabilisation and security sector reform (SSR) best practice. This includes developing international expertise on state reconstruction in conflict-affected countries. We will develop and advocate for the UK’s governance and human rights-centred approach on stabilisation, SSR, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), sharing our outputs with the international community for the benefit of those living in conflict-affected countries. We will update the UK Guide to Stabilisation, which provides thought leadership and practical advice for the international community. Our priority countries benefiting from this work will be ODA recipients. The Programme will support our Integrated Review objectives of reducing the frequency and intensity of conflict and instability and minimising opportunities for state and non-state actors to undermine international security.
Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme covers activity seeks to promote justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflict, to support them to recovery, including with health, education and financial support. The programme includes activity to strengthen global responses to sexual violence in conflict, for example through the production and promotion of a guidebook outlining government's obligations on this issue under international law.
CPFAR - Catalysing Private Finance for Adaptation and Resilience.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Private and public sector collaboration which co-creates and pilots practical tools, solutions and financial instruments which identify, price and manage physical climate risks in investments, particularly infrastructure, to incentivise a shift towards more resilient design. Formerly CCRI.
Women and Girls Health: The Ending Preventable Deaths of Mothers, Babies and Children support programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme provides technical assistance (TA) to FCDO teams to complement all UK investments that support the manifesto commitment to End the Preventable Deaths of mothers, babies and children by 2030 (EPD). The FCDO EPD approach paper (2021) is central to women and girls’ health, encompassing aspects of policy and programme work in health systems, sexual reproductive health and rights, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, climate resilient health and research.
International Finance Facility for Immunisation
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Reduce vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in poor countries in a sustainable way using innovative financing approach
Shule Bora - Quality Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
A national education programme to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme will improve learning outcomes for all children, improve transition rates to secondary school for girls, reduce physical and sexual violence in and around schools, and help children with disabilities access quality education. The programme will work with the Government of Tanzania on achieving these outcomes through a payment-by-results mechanism, supported by technical assistance. The programme will also directly deliver innovative approaches to improving education quality in 9 regions of Tanzania through a contracted Managing Agent, alongside ongoing evaluation and learning.
Building sustainable anti-corruption action in Tanzania (BSAAT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce the role of corruption as a barrier to poverty reduction in Tanzania by improving the capacity and coordination of the criminal justice system in corruption cases, improving integrity and governance in the private sector, and influencing social change through research and media.
UK - Ghana Partnership for Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote Ghana as an investment destination of choice in West Africa; to support investment into job-creating sectors, particularly through UK investment, partnering development partners including CDC; to support Global Britain objectives across HMG, on trade, prosperity, bilateral cooperation with China on investment issues; to support the UK Ghana Chamber to meet wider UK objectives around responsible development and trade.
Transparency and Accountability to improve economic development and service delivery(TRACTION)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve accountability responsiveness in the delivery of public goods (including business environment) and services at local and national levels. This will be achieved through changes in the way government does business such as improvements in oversight in use of public finances, improvements in how budgets are allocated to reflect needs and more politicians seeking to legitimise themselves based on the delivery of public goods - both at election time and between elections.
Support to the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To deliver effective security and justice interventions through the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) Team by providing guidance to help bilateral donors and multilateral organisations deliver effective and politically-informed security and justice responses based on lessons from the field and the evidence base. Also to improve the co-ordination and technical support between donors and their engagement with multilateral organisations in the security and justice sector.
Invest Salone: Private Sector Development, Trade and Job Creation in Sierra Leone
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase investment in Sierra Leone's exporting sectors, including agriculture, tourism, and fisheries leading to economic diversification, household income growth and job creation. The programme will help Sierra Leone meet the economic aspirations of its growing young population, tackling the drivers of instability and illegal migration. It will also make Sierra Leone more competitive in global markets putting put it on a pathway to becoming a future trading partner for the UK.
FCDO Research Commissioning Centre
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
FCDO will establish a new Research Commissioning Centre to introduce streamlined and flexible commissioning options that accelerate research delivery in line with FCDO needs. The programme will embed a new operating model for research based on a strategic partnership between FCDO and the UK academic sector. This will deliver some of the recommendations made in the government's Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy, and bring FCDO’s approach to commissioning research in line with other UK government departments that fund research and the wider UK research sector. This will lead to more efficient, faster and nimble processes for sourcing FCDO mission-driven research, responsive to organisational priorities and needs. The programme will also establish a new centralised digital platform for all FCDO research investments to improve accessibility to FCDO's research granting opportunities and research outputs, and the visibility of results and impacts to an external audience.
Hygiene, Handwashing & Behaviour Change Coalition for COVID 19 response programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop an innovative partnership with Unilever to provide funding, for a ‘Hygiene, Handwashing & Behaviour Change’ Coalition for Covid19, matched with in-kind support and technical expertise by Unilever. Under Unilever leadership, the coalition will bring together academia (e.g. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), INGOs (e.g. Oxfam) and UN agencies, to deliver mass communications, hygiene products and digital behaviour change programmes on the importance of hand and environmental hygiene in low- and middle-income countries. This will build on recent investments Unilever has made in response to Covid19 and will allow scale up across multiple countries.
Ethiopia – Human Rights and Peacebuilding Programme (HARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Human Rights and Peacebuilding (HARP) programme will support the UK’s strategic response to conflict in Ethiopia. The programme will support peacebuilding initiatives in areas where the UK has a comparative advantage. This will build the capacity of local peace actors (particularly women and youth), provide safe spaces for dialogue and engage with government to respond to community needs. The UK has proven success in investing in these areas in Ethiopia – particularly through the CSSF Funded work of Conciliation Resources in Somali Regional State. HARP will look to continue this activity, as well as supporting further peacebuilding activity in other conflict areas.
Better Assistance in Crises (Social Protection)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will help poor and vulnerable people to cope better with crises and meet their basic needs through more effective social assistance in contexts of recurrent shocks, protracted conflict and forced displacement. It will address the bottlenecks at global and country level that prevent greater use of social protection approaches in crises, through expert advisory services for country support, capacity building, learning, coordination and high-level policy influencing, and high quality research that strengthens the evidence on what works in different contexts.
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