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Carbon Initiative For Development (Ci-Dev)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Carbon Initiative for Development (Ci-Dev) aims to increase the flow of international carbon finance, primarily into Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It launched in 2013 and supports climate change mitigation in pursuit of the Paris Agreement’s goals and facilitates access to cleaner energy and other poverty reducing technologies. It guarantees a revenue stream if projects deliver their expected benefits, builds local capacity to develop projects and monitor carbon emissions, and pilots projects that could serve as blueprints to increase LDC access to the international carbon market
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.
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase III
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR provides funding to the Global Health European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3) Joint Undertaking which works to deliver new solutions to reduce the burden of poverty-related infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and to strengthen research capacities to prepare and respond to re-emerging infectious diseases. Global Health EDCTP3 builds on EDCTP Phase 2, which NIHR has been contributing to since 2016 (GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2). As EDCTP transitions to Global Health EDCTP3, calls under the new work packages will support further clinical research and training in sub-Saharan Africa.
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase III
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR provides funding to the Global Health European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3) Joint Undertaking which works to deliver new solutions to reduce the burden of poverty-related infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and to strengthen research capacities to prepare and respond to re-emerging infectious diseases. Global Health EDCTP3 builds on EDCTP Phase 2, which NIHR has been contributing to since 2016 (GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2). As EDCTP transitions to Global Health EDCTP3, calls under the new work packages will support further clinical research and training in sub-Saharan Africa.
ISPF Fund for Global Health Impact and Capacity Building
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Research Development Fellowship Programme to provide opportunities for talented health researchers based in Africa, so that they can lead research that is responsive to its African settings and can contribute to reducing the burden of disease. It aims to develop emerging African scientists through developing their skills, experience, confidence and research outputs.
Adolescent mental, sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing policy, program and primary care implementation priorities in West Africa
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC Adolescent Health in Adolescent mental, sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing policy, program and primary care implementation priorities in West Africa
Medical Research Council (MRC) Towards Leadership Programme with the African Research Excellence Fund (AREF)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the African Research Excellence Fund (AREF) are putting funding together to deliver a research leadership development programme for African researchers – MRC Towards Leadership Programme. Funding provided to support 2 cohorts.
A combination efficacy study in Africa of two DNA-MVA- or DNA- Env protein HIV-1 vaccine regimens with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MRC supplementary funding to support the extension of a European & Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership funded HIV efficacy vaccine trial
Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation & Commercialisation - Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Alumni
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
By focusing on building engineering capacity in Sub Saharan Africa, this programme will have a primary focus on some of the poorest countries in the developing world and will help strengthen their resilience and response to crisis and help promote global prosperity. COVID-19
Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation & Commercialisation - Africa Prize CARE
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Project CARE aims to support African Engineering entrepreneurs to make and supply PPE which is effectively used in hospitals and clinics in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as to respond to other COVID-19 related challenges in their communities. COVID-19
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
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
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.
Africa Humanitarian Response Fund II (AHRF II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will deliver quality humanitarian assistance in African contexts where the FCDO has no in-country humanitarian expertise or where a regional response is more efficient than a country-by-country approach. It will address severe humanitarian needs where the UK has comparative advantages. It will prioritise life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations in protracted humanitarian contexts in the Central Africa Republic, Eritrea, Cameroon, and Madagascar and allow the FCDO to respond to both sudden onset and emerging humanitarian crises. It will also provide technical assistance, operational support and preparedness drawing on UK expertise and scientific evidence.
MECS - Modern Energy Cooking Services
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MECS is the FCDO research and innovation programme that accelerates the uptake of clean and modern energy cooking practices in Africa, South Asia, and the Indo-Pacific, in alignment with the objectives of Sustainable Development Goal 7. Targeting the 2.1 billion people who still lack access to clean cooking solutions in developing countries (especially women), MECS develops research around modern energy cooking, funds pilots to scale up new clean cooking technologies and business models in developing countries, and conducts policy research to inform and influence national strategies and planning. MECS is delivered via two lead organisations - Loughborough University and the World Bank ESMAP – in collaboration with hundreds of regional and local downstream partner organisations (including 16 other universities). It contributes to International Climate Finance (ICF) objectives and is one of the main FCDO programmes contributing to the £1b Ayrton Fund for clean energy innovation.
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
CLARE - CLimate And REsilience Framework Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CLARE is a flagship research programme on climate adaptation and resilience, funded mostly (about 90%) by UK Aid through the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and co-funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. CLARE is bridging critical gaps between science and action by championing Southern leadership to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards. Through long-term commitments and partnerships worldwide, and needs-driven, action-focused research, CLARE links up short-and long-term issues, enabling long-term, sustainable, and fair economic and social development in a changing climate whilst supporting action to reduce impacts now and providing a better understanding of climate risks.
IMPACT - Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets that work for the poor. FCDO is aiming to catalyse the market for impact investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Impact investments are those which have both a financial and social return by benefiting poor and low-income people through improved access to affordable goods and services and income generating opportunities. The Impact Programme aims to promote solutions to the barriers and constraints that are preventing Impact Investing from scaling up in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The programme seeks to foster a significant increase in the volume and distribution of impact investment, reaching the underserved as consumers, suppliers, distributors or employees, in hard to reach, difficult geographies, and through innovative business models.
TEA - Transforming Energy Access
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
TEA is the flagship FCDO research and innovation platform supporting early-stage testing and scale-up of innovative technologies and business models that accelerate access to affordable, clean, and modern energy in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Indo-Pacific, enabling sustainable and inclusive growth. TEA seeks to improve clean energy access for 25 million people, create 170,000 green jobs, and leverage £1.3 billion of additional investment into clean energy technology research, innovation and scale-up. It contributes to International Climate Finance (ICF) objectives and it is the main FCDO platform for delivery of the £1 billion UK Ayrton Fund for clean energy innovation between 2021 and 2026. TEA is delivered by four lead FCDO partners - Carbon Trust, Innovate UK, Shell Foundation, and ESMAP – and a network to date of more than 750 downstream partners delivering research and innovation activities in more than 60 countries.
ARCAN - Africa Regional Climate and Nature Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The impact will be increased resilience of Africa economies and communities to the impacts of a changing climate, sustainable and environmentally sound economic development and low carbon green energy generation and access.