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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
Public Finance Resource Centre (PFRC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The PFRC offers technical assistance to ODA eligible countries in the fields of tax, public financial management (PFM) and broader macro-fiscal work, including debt management. The PFRC is intended to mobilise flexible technical assistance more quickly than is currently available, responding to clear demand for such support from partner countries. The PFRC is one of 3 pillars of the UK Centre of Expertise for Public Finance to help partner countries access technical expertise.
Start Fund III, A global response mechanism for providing life-saving humanitarian assistance through NGOs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support to the Start Fund - an NGO led multi-donor humanitarian response mechanism that delivers humanitarian assistance, primarily for underfunded and small to medium scale emergencies.
Nutrition Action for Systemic Change
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme contributes to preventing and reducing malnutrition in all its forms with a particular focus on tackling undernutrition and improving diets of women, girls and children. It will do so by strengthening policy and accountability at country and global level so that health, food and other systems more effectively integrate nutrition objectives, increased public finance is mobilised for delivering nutrition services, and sustainable, healthy diets become more affordable and accessible.
Tackling Maternal and Child Undernutrition Programme- Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute towards improved health and nutrition status for children under two years measured primarily by a reduction in stunting by 2023.
Support to the Palestinian Authority to Deliver Basic Services, Build Stability and Promote Reform in Palestine
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Palestinian Authority (PA) to meet the needs of the Palestinian people. Funding will enable around 25,000 young Palestinians with access to an education, provide up to 3,700 immunisations for children, and 185,000 medical consultations each year. This will help to build and strengthen the capacity of PA institutions through public financial management reform, and build stability in the region by preserving the two state solution.
Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Programme 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa 2 (TDDAP 2) programme will help implement the UK’s vision for progress on health security in Africa. It will provide technical and financial support to build health security capacity in up to 5 selected countries, including middle ground powers, strengthen key regional bodies such as the Africa Centre for Disease Control and establish long-term partnerships between African, UK and global institutions. Outcomes; • Strengthened regional institutions to help build and improve global health security; • Improved national public health systems and functions with increased national ownership and leadership of outbreak responses; • Communities trained and provided with the knowledge and tools to identify risks and respond to outbreaks; • An emergency response/contingency mechanism to enable the UK to quickly respond to disease outbreaks and help prevent these from escalating to crisis; • Independent monitoring and evaluation component
Partnership for Agile Governance and Climate Engagement (PACE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The PACE is designed to support more accountable and inclusive institutions to respond to Nigeria’s governance and climate change challenges. This is a governance programme, seeking to address the governance challenges that undermine development and perpetuate social exclusion in Nigeria.
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.
Regional and International Tax Initiatives (RITI)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Domestic resources are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Regional and International Tax Initiatives Programme (RITI) will enable developing countries to access specialist skills by leveraging global expertise to build tax for development capacity. The programme will also enable the production of global public goods and support international and regional organisations to work with countries to deliver both international and domestic tax reforms.
ASEAN-UK Supporting the Advancement of Girls’ Education (SAGE) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will help to improve the learning outcomes, agency and freedoms of women and girls and other left-behind groups across the full range of countries in ASEAN, in line with the commitments to ASEAN as a Dialogue Partner. It will deploy technical advice to support regional partnerships and reform initiatives that can influence and multiply domestic and multilateral education finance. In Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries, activity will focus on basic education. We will provide technical assistance, capacity building and evidence assessments to help ASEAN Member States (AMS) design and implement more cost-effective measures to address the foundational learning crisis, including post-COVID-19 recovery. It will also help to expand access to high quality digital skills, technical and vocational education with a focus on enabling marginalised adolescent girls ty digital skills, technical and vocational education with a focus on enabling marginalised adolescent girls.
Evaluation Quality Assurance and Learning Service 2 - EQUALS 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will provide independent, high quality efficient and effective advice and assurance throughout the programme cycle to ensure that Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds are used for undertaking high quality monitoring, evaluation and learning that meets the evolving needs in development. Other ODA spending government departments can access it to ensure evaluations of their programmes are of a high enough quality to be published. Monitoring and evaluations can provide accountability for tax-payers money and enable learning and new evidence generation to inform current and future policy and programming across UK and other Governments. It will additionally be open to some Non ODA evaluations within FCDO for the same quality assurance and assistance.
Expertise to Support Economic Reform in Sierra Leone
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme provides technical assistance to the government of Sierra Leone on i. public financial management and revenue generation, and ii. private investment in energy and water infrastructure. It aims to i. improve the integrity, efficiency and control of public spending and increase tax revenue, thereby supporting macroeconomic stability, and ii. attract higher levels of responsible private sector infrastructure investment. In combination, this should support economic growth.
Humanitarian Enablers Programme (HEP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will contribute to making humanitarian responses by FCDO and the international humanitarian system more effective as a core priority of the UK Government’s International Development Strategy (IDS). It will support specialised enabling services which are aligned to the three priorities of the Humanitarian Framework: independent data collection and analysis (prioritise); contributing to improved access and inclusion of vulnerable groups (protect); and strengthening early warning and risk management (prevent). The programme will deploy enabling services in rapid onset and protracted crises; complementing and informing the FCDO’s response and providing “global public goods” that multiply the impact of others.
Conflict Resolution Department (CRD) Conflict Resolution Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme primarily funds key mediation organisations delivering against the UK’s negotiation, mediation and peace process ambitions, specifically on bringing about negotiated political settlements that govern and end violence and refocusing peace processes as a central tool for conflict resolution, working with a range of national and international partners.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Building in Somalia (HARBS) 2022-2028
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of conflict and disaster affected populations through provision of life-saving assistance and contribute to resilience building of benefitting households to withstand shocks.
Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To help deliver a more climate resilient, less carbon intensive and cleaner Bangladesh. The programme will help tackle adaptation, energy, environmental management and climate governance challenges at national and local level, in communities across Bangladesh.
Rohingya Response and National Resilience Programme (RRNRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve protection and quality of humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya population living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, so that they can live full and meaningful lives. This to be done peacefully living alongside host communities, for whom the impacts of the crisis need to be reduced and development opportunities provided. The programme marks a shift in FCDO’s (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) response to the crisis by providing longer term, predictable support to address the needs of both refugees and host communities. Whilst the focus will be on sustaining and improving the humanitarian operation through provision of quality basic services, there will be a specific focus on stimulating the economy, rehabilitating the environment, and promoting stability for both populations’ benefit. The programme aim to support COVID-19 and early emergency recovery support for national resilience by providing support to the national COVID-19 and disaster response.
Exiting Poverty in Rwanda
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Exiting Poverty in Rwanda Programme will provide support to the Government of Rwanda to help create and scale up a more sustainable, self-financed and inclusive system for supporting the most vulnerable, helping the poor manage shocks and enabling more people to sustainably exit poverty. The programme will provide financial aid to the Government of Rwanda to scale up provision of Social Protection to the poorest. It will put a stronger emphasis on sustainability and on working towards a clear exit strategy from the Social Protection Sector in the future. The focus of the programme therefore is strengthening government systems to build effectiveness, government ownership and long-term sustainability of the programme. This phase of support is expected to deliver the impact of extreme poverty eradicated, and poverty levels reduced, with an outcome of the resilience of vulnerable men, women and children and of the Social Protection systems that help sustain them enhanced.
Tax Transformation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To transform Ethiopia’s tax system so that the Ethiopian Government can fund more services for its population from its own revenues and become less dependent on aid. It takes an accelerated ‘delivery approach’ to tax reform that will generate at least £295million of additional tax revenue, reduce compliance costs for taxpayers, and support a better environment for businesses by improving clarity and the fairness of the tax system for businesses and investors. In doing so, it will create a platform for further sustainable increases in tax revenue and improve the Government's ability to assess the distributional impacts of its tax policies, particularly on the poor.
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