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Financial Action Task Force (FATF) UK Voluntary Contribution
HM Treasury
UK contribution to support to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international standard setter for tackling money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, to increase the number of staff within its Global Network Coordination Group (GNCG). This enables GNCG to considerably increase its engagement with, and improve the quality of country assessments conducted by, the FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs), and improve understanding of the FATF Standards among FSRB member countries. More robust, timely assessments and improved understanding of international AML/CTF/CPF standards drives more effective, more timely corrective measures around the world, leading to reduced opportunities for and improved law enforcement responses to financial crime. This additional engagement also enables and improves the effectiveness of other development interventions from other capacity building providers, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and others, as the regional institutional frameworks will be strengthened and knowledge of the FATF Standards will be increased.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-hmtfitb-FATF-VC
Start Date:
2018-03-04
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,565,000
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) UK Capital Investment
HM Treasury
UK investment in the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to assist in addressing the shortage of infrastructure investment across the Asia-Pacific region. The UK’s membership will deepen economic ties with Asia and create opportunities for British businesses. The AIIB will support economic growth in the region and drive up living standards. The AIIB aims to help bridge the gap and improve economic growth in Asia. The establishment of the AIIB supports access to finance for infrastructure projects across Asia using a variety of support measures including loans, equity investments and guarantees to boost investment. Supporting infrastructure investment in Asian will support economic growth in the region and give benefits for the whole global economy.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-hmtfitb-AIIB
Start Date:
2016-01-15
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
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.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-6-03
Start Date:
2016-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£50,000,000
Digital Access Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
The Prosperity Fund cross-HMG 'Digital Access Programme' is a DFID-led partnership with FCO and DCMS. It aims to catalyse more inclusive, affordable, safe and secure digital access for excluded and underserved communities in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. Increased digital inclusion in the programme countries will form the basis for more thriving digital ecosystems that generate high-skilled jobs, opportunities for local digital entrepreneurship focused on country-specific development challenges, as well as potential partnerships with international and UK business aimed at mutual prosperity. The Digital Access programme will also focus on learning about sustainable models and enablers for digital inclusion. The learnings will be shared with key stakeholders and other partner countries, thereby amplifying the impact of the programme.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-06-DIG
Start Date:
2019-07-16
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£105,750,000
Monitoring and Evaluation mechanisms for the Cross-government Prosperity Fund
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
These services provide specialist monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning provisions to Prosperity Fund programmes, they also enable effective portfolio management at Fund level. We use these systems to help drive value for money, learning and effective delivery of the Fund's objective.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-MREL
Start Date:
2017-09-04
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£63,100,000
Global Finance Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
Leverages the UK’s unique position as the world’s leading financial centre to increase access to finance for firms and individuals, promoting shared prosperity through inclusive economic growth overseas, and the development of new markets
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-23-GLFIN
Start Date:
2018-04-04
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£40,000,000
Unlocking Prosperity in the Horn of Africa
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
Investment in the Horn of Africa’s to support full and inclusive trade and economic growth potential of the region by developing and improving key roads, enabling trade cross borders and enhancing local economic development.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-27-HNAF
Start Date:
2018-08-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,000,000
UK-INDIA Partnership on National Investment and Infrastructure Fund - Green Growth Equity Fund
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
The NIIF sub-fund will use UK government finance to catalyse private sector investments from global/UK investors, through the City of London to infrastructure projects in India. To help India address a key constraint to inclusive growth by boosting investment into infrastructure - which will lead to growth, job creation and poverty reduction in India. The fund is fully attributed to climate change mitigation - ie low carbon development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The fund will primarily invest in sectors like Renewable Energy, Clean Transportation, Water Treatment, and Waste Management. The success of this intervention will lead to follow on private investment that will have a transformational impact on India's economic development.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-16-GGEF
Start Date:
2018-09-26
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£120,000,000
Global Infrastructure Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
The Programme aims to develop the capacity of middle-income countries to develop major successful infrastructure projects in the partner countries above. To achieve this impact, the programme will: train officials in UK best practice methodologies in infrastructure project planning, preparation and delivery; encourage long-term adoption of these methodologies via policy and process changes; support a number of specific pilot infrastructure projects, using the methodologies, in selected partner countries to demonstrate effectiveness and embed their use Meeting these objectives will assist the countries to develop the economic and social infrastructure they need to sustain inclusive economic growth. They will also increase the number of good infrastructure projects coming to market as viable investment propositions, helping to reduce the infrastructure gap (increasing the number of proposed projects being completed). It will also attract investors and lenders to deliver the infrastructure projects offering opportunities to international business as a secondary benefit, including from the UK.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-14-INFRA
Start Date:
2017-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£34,000,000
Global Trade Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
The programme will provide technical assistance and support to facilitate free trade and open markets for key Middle Income Countries (MICs), enabling greater investment and interaction with global value chains to create jobs and prosperity, and help reduce poverty. The programme’s budget will be implemented across three main activity strands. Management Services (research and analysis across multiple regions and countries), Advisory Services (including design and development of sub programmes) and Delivery Services (delivery of interventions that have been scoped and contracted from the Management and Advisory Services). This programme will help to meet one of the four strategic objectives of the UK Aid strategy 2015: to use ODA to promote economic development and prosperity in the developing world. This will contribute to the reduction of poverty and strengthen trade and investment opportunities globally – including, as a secondary benefit, for the UK.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-11-GTP
Start Date:
2017-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£180,980,000
Centre for Global Disaster Protection (CGDP)
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
To protect poor and vulnerable people, save lives and help developing countries to get back on their feet more quickly after a disaster by working with governments to strengthen planning, embed early action, and use “risk financing” tools like insurance and contingent credit to finance more cost-effective, rapid and reliable response to emergencies. It aims to empower governments to build resilience to natural disasters and climate change, and take ownership of their risks, with more assistance delivered through pre-financed government-led systems. Funded by the UK Government Prosperity Fund.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-10-CDGP
Start Date:
2017-09-22
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£36,340,000
Global Business Environment Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
This programme aims to improve the business environment in middle-income economies by stimulating growth and creating jobs, helping to lift people out of poverty. It is worth £30 million over 4 years, and aims to support reforms that improve the business environment in a range of middle-income countries. It also aims to unlock inclusive growth for women, who can be disproportionately affected by a poor business environment. The programme will provide technical assistance to national governments and sub-national authorities to support their reform programmes by improving capacity in areas like investment promotion and fostering competition. Middle income countries are widely recognised as engines of global growth. However weak institutions and inadequate regulations often constrain growth and exacerbate challenges such as low productivity levels. Global growth improves opportunities for international business, including UK companies, to contribute to and benefit from economic growth in other countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-08-GBE
Start Date:
2017-11-20
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,950,000
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AAIB) Special Fund
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
At the ninth UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) in Beijing on 16 December 2017, the Chancellor of the Exchequer signed a Contribution Agreement with the AIIB, formalising the UK’s commitment, made at the previous EFD in 2016, to provide US$50m to the AIIB’s Special Fund for Project Preparation. This fund provides grant support to developing Asian countries to prepare infrastructure projects for the Bank to finance. The UK's contribution is through the Prosperity Fund.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-05-AIIB
Start Date:
2017-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£45,550,000
Better Health Programme
Cross-Government Prosperity Fund
The programme aims are to increase life expectancy, improve productivity and deliver economic growth in the partner countries set out above. To achieve this high level impact it has two overarching health goals: • To tackle the issue of premature death and illness due to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and heart disease, which account for 74% of premature fatalities in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). • To reduce incidents of premature mortality (e.g. infections contracted in hospitals) by improving health care outcomes. Meeting these objectives will help advance economic development in the partner countries but will also create opportunities for international and UK businesses as a secondary benefit. It also helps advance our National Security Strategy and UK Aid Strategy objectives.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-50-PF-20-BHP
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£96,640,000
Global Environment Facility (GEF) 7th Replenishment
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
To support developing countries to implement international agreements on climate change, biodiversity, land degradation and harmful chemicals as integral elements of sustainable development. GEF’s other activities include sustainable forest management, international waters and protecting the ozone layer.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-PO0015-GEF7
Start Date:
2018-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£100,000,000
Annual contribution to the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This activity supports an annual contribution to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-SUB-IUCN
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£990,000
Annual Contribution to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This activity supports an annual contribution to the Ramsar Convention, or the Convention on Wetlands, which is an intergovernmental treaty that seeks to conserve wetlands and their resources. The mission of the Ramsar Convention explicitly conceives of the conservation and wise use of wetlands as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world. Wetlands provide a range of vital ecosystem services; they deliver flood control, coastal protection, and climate change adaptation and mitigation functions, protecting the communities most at risk from floods, droughts and storm surges. They are also diverse habitats, which support biodiversity and are essential to the life cycles and migratory patterns of many species. Overall, wetlands provide food for more than three billion people worldwide and are a source of freshwater and livelihoods for over one billion people. The Ramsar Convention in pursuing the global wise use of wetlands makes a central contribution to long-term pro-poor growth and to protecting the livelihoods of the poorest. The Convention provides support to developing countries through the provision of small grants, advisory missions and funding for emergency action in threatened areas, targeted capacity building and training, and sharing of expertise from developed countries.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-SUB-RAM
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£351,000
Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Change Programme
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Funding from UK government to deliver excellent climate research to provide an improved understanding of past climate and enable better projections to underpin national scientific capability and inform domestic and international policy commitments (e.g. Climate Change Act 2008 and UNFCCC negotiations). Climate models and underpinning science developed using MOHCCP funding are publically available and used as the foundation for many projects that aim to build resilience to a changing climate in developing countries. The models are used for developing systems in developing countries to produce climate projections. For example, the models have been used to analyse drought in the Horn of Africa, climate change impacts in Bangladesh and to build resilience to climate change in the Philippines.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-MOHC-001
Start Date:
2016-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£12,300,000
Annual contribution to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This activity supports an annual contribution to the Cartagena Protocol. The Cartagena Protocol sets out policy and regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) released into the environment. The UK has engaged with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) since it was adopted in 2000, and signed it the same year. The Protocol aims to ensure the safety of human health and the environment by governing the transfer, handling, and packaging of international movements of GMOs. As a Party to the CPB, the UK is bound by United Nations Environment Programme rules to pay an annual subscription. The CPB recognises the benefits of modern biotechnology, and at the same time aims to protect human health, the environment, conservation, and biological diversity from any potential risks arising from the handling, transfer and packaging of GMOs during international movement. Parties are subject to a range of obligations, and, therefore, need a range of capabilities in order to fulfil their obligations under the Protocol. These include an appropriate infrastructure (the ability to detect and identify GMOs), legislation, policy and scientific expertise, and access to robust and balanced information. The Protocol has a focus on the evolving needs of countries with economies in transition to support access to existing expertise and technology. Under the Protocol a number of regional, national and international decisions have been developed and adopted in order to support the development of the capabilities of Parties, as appropriate.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-INTSUB004-CART
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£270,000
Darwin Initiative Round 24
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-DAR24
Start Date:
2018-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£10,604,188