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UK Integrated Security Fund (UKISF)
UK - UK Integrated Security Fund (UKISF)
The UK Integrated Security Fund (UKISF) replaced the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), with a wider remit, funding projects both in the UK and internationally to tackle some of the most complex national security challenges facing the UK and its partners. The UKISF combined the CSSF with the National Cyber Programme and the Economic Deterrence Initiative (EDI). The latter tackling sanctions evasion across the UK’s trade, transport, and financial sanctions. Like the CSSF, the UKISF budget includes Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) funds and non-ODA funds.
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK contribution to the World Bank Group PROBLUE Programme to facilitate sustainable finance for healthy oceans
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
PROBLUE is the World Bank’s leading multilateral mechanism for leveraging and disbursing blue finance towards sustainable ocean sectors and activities. It is a multi-donor trust fund that supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life Below Water, and the Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. PROBLUE aims to do this by reducing the existing blue finance gap by creating the necessary enabling environment for public and private sectors to shift from unsustainable to sustainable activities.
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
BBC World Service
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Increasing the provision of, and access to, impartial news and information that responds to audience needs in English and local languages in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, South America & Central America
Environmental Pollution Programme
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This programme's aim is to enhance the ability of lower to middle income countries (LMICs) to manage chemicals in order to reduce air, chemical, and waste pollution. 21-22 is predominantly a scoping year for this new programme, which seeks to share expertise, best practice and invest in research to strengthen the capacity of low- and middle-income countries to meet their obligations under UN Multilateral Environment Agreements and frameworks; thereby helping to improve human health and promote prosperity, whilst also halting biodiversity loss and the key drivers for climate change.
High quality statistics that improve lives globally
Office for National Statistics
High quality statistics and data are essential to enable evidence-based decision-making at local, national, and global levels. This ONS project supports its partners – national statistics offices (NSOs) in low- and middle-income countries – to strengthen their technical and organisational capacity, using its world leading expertise in statistical production and NSO management. Through a range of in-person and remote assistance, the project supports the production of higher quality, valuable and trustworthy statistics for the global good.
Establishing and enhancing veterinary surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This project aims to help establish effective surveillance for longer term capacity building for AMR in the terrestrial and aquatic veterinary sectors in selected LMICs, and to enhance veterinary medicines regulatory training.
UK support to Caribbean Financial Action Task Force
HM Treasury
UK financial support through HM Treasury to support regional efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing through effective implementation of anti-money laundering / counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) standards in CFATF member countries. The support will fund additional human resource to conduct country assessments of CFATF developing member countries, ensuring reports are timely and robust and drive improved efforts towards addressing AML/CTF deficiencies. HM Treasury is also supporting CFATF by providing funding to hire a AML/CTF supervision expert to help CFATF members improve their AML/CTF supervision of firms with AML/CTF obligations.
UK Aid Match II Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the achievement of the Global Goals through funding UK-based civil society organisations to deliver projects that assist in ending extreme poverty and building a better world by 2030. The programme will also provide opportunities for the UK public to engage in international development issues and have a say in how a portion of the aid budget is spent.
UK financial support to World Bank MENA programme
HM Treasury
UK financial support through HM Treasury to support the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development's MENA programme, supporting developing countries to improve their understanding of the money laundering and terrorist financing risks they face, and strengthen their response to those threats.
UK financial support to the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism - MONEYVAL
HM Treasury
UK financial support through HM Treasury to support the strengthening of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) systems in developing member countries of the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism - MONEYVAL. The support will contribute to regional efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing through effective implementation of anti-money laundering / counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) standards in MONEYVAL member countries, with specific support for: Andora, Georgia, and Moldova.
UK financial support to Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG)
HM Treasury
UK financial support through HM Treasury to support the strengthening of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) systems in developing countries, in line with the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group's (ESAAMLG) Mission Statement and Strategic Plan. The support will contribute to regional efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing through effective implementation of anti-money laundering / counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) standards in all ESAAMLG member countries covering: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s second Global Research Professorship call
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s second Global Research Professorship call. The Global Research Professorships programme funds research leaders, with a track-record of applied health research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels. Funding of up to £2m over up to 5 years is awarded to Professors working in close partnership with a research institution in an LMIC.
Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights (MADAR) Network Plus
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Addressing development challenges associated with the humanitarian protection of displaced people in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Benefits displaced communities, local communities, researchers, practitioners. SDG:16,17
Migrants, Queenmothers, and Gender-Based Violence in Ghana
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"This project is on the prevention of and responses to GBV within migrant communities in Ghana. They will employ narrative methodology to study the help- and justice-seeking behaviours of female Nigerian immigrants in response to two forms of GBV – intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner perpetrated sexual violence. The team will then use applied theatre and educational illustrated stories (comics) to raise awareness of how survivors can access services and justice and how their host community and female traditional leaders – ‘queenmothers’ – can assist them. Ghana and Nigeria will be primary beneficiaries of the outcomes of this project. These interventions are expected to contribute to behavioural change and the strengthening of the capacity of informal institutions in dealing with GBV, and consequently reduce its prevalence. The outcome will also promote poverty reduction (SDG goal 1), good health and well-being (SDG goal 3), gender equality (SDG goal 5), reduced inequalities (SDG goal 10), and finally, promote peaceful societies for sustainable development (SDG goal 16).
The impact on human health of restoring degraded African drylands
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This multi-country project aims to establish the health benefits of large-scale land restoration in Africa's Sahel region. We will leverage the Great Green Wall (GGW) of Africa initiative, the largest land restoration effort in the world, as a natural experimental system. Drylands host nearly 40% of the global population. The GGW and other similar land-restoration efforts currently underway around the world are set to reshape landscapes and the lived experiences of billions of people globally. Such restoration efforts are increasingly being regarded as potential 'Nature-based solutions' as the world seeks to confront and adapt to the triple challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and food security. At present however, human health considerations play a very minor role in the design and implementation of restoration projects, including the GGW. This project aims to fill this critical gap, to ensure restoration projects can maximally serve human health alongside other objectives. We will use a novel combination of activities spanning 4 integrated work packages to do this. Briefly, WP1 will comprise a literature review and community consultations to develop an iteratively refined, gender-sensitive logic model describing the causal linkages between dryland restoration and human health. This will guide the project by helping to refine key hypotheses and identify a suitable subset of secondary health outcomes to be evaluated in subsequent WPs. In WP2 we will collate as much existing data as possible for GGW countries to conduct a Sahel-wide village-matched health impact evaluation. The primary outcome to be investigated will be weight-for-age z score (WAZ) of children (0-59 months) as a measure of acute nutritional status. A subset of secondary outcomes in children and women emerging from WP1 as of particular relevance will also be considered. We will compare health outcomes between communities with and without GGW activities to evaluate the health impacts of restoration. WP3 will be a follow-up of WPs1-2 in which we will conduct a more targeted, community-prioritised, village-matched health impact evaluation with primary data collection in three focal countries (The Gambia, Senegal, Burkina Faso). Based on our current understanding of the linkages between health and environmental restoration, these are likely to include other anthropometric measures (e.g., height-for-age z score, HAZ), and outcomes reflecting risk factors on the nutrition, infection and mental health / well-being pathways. We will again focus on children and non-pregnant women. Some secondary outcomes require collection of biological samples from children for laboratory analysis. Follow-up sampling will give information on seasonal effects and an opportunity to compare child growth over a 12-14 month period between groups with and without GGW interventions. WP4 comprises a set of integrating tasks aimed at marrying the results of the health impact evaluations with current activities guiding the design and implementation of the GGW and understanding the role of and benefits to health of completing the GGW. With an anticipated cost of around $50 billion to reach its 100 million hectare target of restored drylands by 2030, it is essential for health impacts (benefits and costs) to be brought into existing decision-support tools for applied purposes. We will do this via a combination of steps from health economic evaluation, cost-benefit and trade-off analysis, and systems and scenario modelling in the context of a changing climate. In all WPs, our Project Partners and Scientific Steering Committee will further ensure local relevance and streamline the research-to-practice pipeline, enhancing impact.
Co-designing effective Nature-based Solutions in coastal West Africa
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
We will assess whether the suitability of different approaches for protecting and restoring mangroves depends on the environment or on social factors. For example, some rivers carry a lot of sediment which could be trapped by small areas of mangroves, while other rivers have less sediment which may not be effectively trapped by small patches of mangroves. Likewise, options for people to switch from cutting mangroves to getting wood from alternative sources will depend on how close other forests are, the amount of land available for planting new trees, and the ease of bringing wood in from further afield. We will work in six different river catchments in three countries in West Africa, which differ in many environmental and social characteristics including how close they are to urban areas where products can be easily bought or sold, the amount of forest loss along the rivers and experience of past civil conflicts. We will work with communities in three areas within each catchment, allowing us to see the effect of differences in livelihoods and customs on possible solutions. These lessons learnt about the importance of context will be valuable for informing efforts to protect and restore mangroves across the region.
Developing Strategies to coordinate HEalthcare provision b
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC JHSRI award to design a health system-wide strategy to adapt healthcare provision to population mobility between The Gambia and Senegal.
UK contribution to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Special Fund
HM Treasury
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.
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