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End Violence Against Children (EVAC Fund)
UK - Home Office
The UK Home Office recognises the moral and operational imperative to support the global fight against online child sexual exploitation (CSE). As such, the Home Office has committed £40 million towards the UNICEF hosted End Violence Against Children Fund (EVAC) to support activities intending to build international capacity to tackle online CSE. The EVAC's strategy for supporting international action aligned to the WePROTECT Global Alliance's (WPGA) strategy for national action. The WePROTECT Global Alliance combines expertise from industry, law enforcement, government and civil society to determine the capabilities required at country level to effectively respond to the threat of online CSE. Projects funded by the EVAC fund must demonstrate how they support the implementation of the WPGA's Model National Response.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-03
Start Date:
2016-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£50,000,000
Resettlement Programmes
UK - Home Office
The Syrian Vulnerable Peoples Scheme (SVPRS) and Vulnerable Childrens Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) are programmes designed to support the Government's aim to resettle vulnerable refugees from the Syrian conflict. The commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees from Syria by 2020 was made by the Government in September 2015. Funding enables authorities to provide refugees who have fled conflict and persecution with a safe environment and the chance to rebuild their lives. The funding pays for food, shelter and training for up to 12 months. By the end of September 2019, over 18,000 refugees had found safety in the UK to rebuild their lives as part of the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. The Home Office is on-track to deliver the full VPRS commitment by the end of 2020.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-06
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£234,525,000
ODA National Crime Agency (NCA) - Overseas Network
UK - Home Office
The NCA work alongside partners in ODA-eligible countries to build their domestic capability to tackle high end/high harm SOC threats that undermine their socioeconomic development and/or endanger their citizens. The NCA prioritise activity in countries where SOC threats are transnational.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-NCA
Start Date:
2021-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Border Force Upstream Capacity building
UK - Home Office
Border Force upstream capacity building network has an overall aim to build international targeting in ODA countries to help deter the movement across national borders of individuals and goods, that would harm their national interests by enhancing their border control. Border Force upstream capacity building network (in West Africa only) looks to create highly-skilled multi-agency local teams capable of deterring the use of individuals and freight to smuggle drugs or other harmful commodities within developing countries by criminal gangs. Border Force upstream capacity building network projects and activities are based in three main geographical areas the Americas, Africa and EurAsia and have officers embedded in various locations around the world working with local law enforcement agencies and key stakeholders.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-BF
Start Date:
2021-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Organised Immigration Taskforce (project Invigor)
UK - Home Office
This programme aims to improve the capability of source and transit countries to tackle organised immigration crime (OIC); develop and enrich the intelligence picture of the threat of OIC; identify and investigate those involved; disrupt the use of enablers by organised criminals in facilitating OIC; and identify and recover illicit finances. This is an ODA and non-ODA blended programme. The spend reported against this programme is the ODA element alone.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-CPS
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Asylum Support
UK - Home Office
The Home Office Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget provides support to asylum seekers while their claims for refugee status are being processed and provide support to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASCs). ODA funding helps pay for food, shelter, travel and training for up to 12 months for people that are unable to live in their own country for fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or other factors such as sexual orientation. This is an important complement to critical humanitarian support delivered overseas.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-Asylum2
Start Date:
2021-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC)
UK - Home Office
he Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC) is the tailored UK government response to its international obligations laid out in the European Convention Against Trafficking (ECAT). It provides accommodation and tailored support, advocacy and sign posting to adult victims of human trafficking and modern slavery who have entered the National Referral Mechanism and consent to support. The aim is to assist in the physical, psychological and social recovery of modern slavery victims. The support provided is tailored to the needs of the potential victim through needs based assessments at the point of entry and through ongoing engagement with a support worker this can include but is not limited to: - Safe house accommodation - Subsistence payments -A dedicated support worker - Advocacy -Private Counselling -Translation and Interpretation -Support to return to their home country -Assistance with getting to appointments including; transport and childcare -Support to access: Medical treatment, legal aid, addiction support services, education, mental health services, housing and other alternative services
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-MSVCC
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Modern Slavery Fund
UK - Home Office
The Modern Slavery Fund supports the UK’s goal of reducing the prevalence of modern slavery in countries from which the UK sees a high number of victims. The fund actively contributes to achieving the UN sustainable development goal target 8.7 which calls for “immediate and effective measures to eradicate modern slavery” by 2030. The fund forms part of a UK government commitment to spend £200m of ODA on tackling modern slavery.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-MS
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Upstream Border Capacity training (IEI)
UK - Home Office
A programme of law enforcement capacity building activity benefiting ODA countries, which includes technical training and the provision of capability enhancing equipment and supports improved border capacity. More broadly Immigration Enforcement International's (IEI) work in this area promotes improved security system management and reform, including through projects designed to tackle the corruption that both enables irregular/illegal migration and adversely impacts development. Delivered through 27 ODA funded staff based across Americas, Asia Pacific, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Middle East
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-RALON1
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Ending Violence Against Children (EVAC)
UK - Home Office
The UK Home Office recognises the moral and operational imperative to support the global fight against online child sexual exploitation (CSE). As such, the Home Office has committed £40 million towards the UNICEF hosted End Violence Against Children Fund (EVAC) to support activities intending to build international capacity to tackle online CSE. The EVAC's strategy for supporting international action aligned to the WePROTECT Global Alliance's (WPGA) strategy for national action. The WePROTECT Global Alliance combines expertise from industry, law enforcement, government and civil society to determine the capabilities required at country level to effectively respond to the threat of online CSE. Projects funded by the EVAC fund must demonstrate how they support the implementation of the WPGA's Model National Response.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-EVAC
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
UK Resettlement Scheme
UK - Home Office
The Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) concluded in February 2021, having seen over 22,000 refugees resettled across both schemes. Following this, the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) launched reaffirming the UK’s ongoing commitment to refugee resettlement, which continues to be an important component of the UK’s humanitarian response. The UKRS is a multi-year commitment which sees the UK continue to offer a safe and legal route to vulnerable refugees in need of protection. It is accessible to refugees who have been assessed for resettlement by UNHCR against their resettlement submission categories, providing them a safe environment and the chance to rebuild their lives. The Home Office provides tariff funding for local authorities for the first 12 months for each resettled refugee support, including education and health funding, using ODA funds.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-6-UKRS
Start Date:
2021-04-05
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0