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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.
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
UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) Phase 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the relevance and maximise the impact of UK research funding on the lives of the world's poorest people. The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) will provide a framework for a more co-ordinated approach to development sciences research by UK based funders and stakeholders in international development research.
Capacity for Economic Research and Policy making in Africa (CERPA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase the number and quality of MSc and Phd Economics graduates in developing countries involved in research and policy activities, and to improve ability of developing country researchers to undertake high quality economic research. This will enable developing countries to manage their economies better, which should help them to achieve higher economic growth.
Africa Food Trade and Resilience programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will stimulate an increase in regional food trade in sub Saharan Africa (SSA), contributing to satisfying a growing food demand and to addressing food shortages through regional food production, processing and trade, and generating more rural jobs, climate resilience and income for farmers. The programme will: (i) work with companies that source, process, and trade food in the region, to maximise investment, coordination and benefits to smallholder farmers and (ii) contribute to improve the transparency and predictability of government policies to unlock regional food trade. By 2023, we expect the programme will increase income for 1.8 million farming families. DFID funding will de-risk and stimulate over £100 million in private sector investment aimed at enhancing smallholder farmers’ productivity and resilience.
M4H - Mobile for Humanitarian: Exploring the use of mobile technology to provide life-enhancing services during humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Mobile for Humanitarian programme will work with the mobile industry and humanitarian organisations to develop cost effective, scale-able solutions and business models for delivering a range of services to improve disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and recovery. This will include access to information and connectivity, financial services, access to water, sanitation and energy services, digital identity solutions and improving the effectiveness of delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid.
M4D - Mobile for Development Strategic Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To work jointly with the industry group representing mobile phone operators worldwide, the GSMA, and its subsidiary Mobile for Development, to identify and support the development and use of new, innovative ways in which mobile phone technologies and mobile network infrastructure can be used to improve the reach, delivery and affordability of life-enhancing services to poor people in Africa and Asia. As a result of this work some 14 million poor people are expected to benefit from improved access to life enhancing services by 2020.
Enabling predictable, quick and effective responses to humanitarian crises
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support people affected by disasters, conflict and displacement globally, the programme will; provide high volumes of time-critical humanitarian assistance to save lives and mitigate suffering, through a high-performing Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), and potentially other emergency funds, that can rapidly release funds where and when they are needed most, including in advance of imminent crises; support strategic investments in improved quality and effectiveness of country level responses to urgent needs i.e. based on joint needs assessments and a collective approach to accountability.
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.
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.
Unlocking Digital Impact for Development.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will help to deliver the strategic goals of DFID’s Digital Strategy, which aims to harness digital technology to deliver on the SDGs. The programme budget is £18.5 million between 2019-20 to 2023-24. Delivery will primarily be through the Digital Impact Alliance, housed within the UN Foundation. There is a separate pillar to finance complementary policy research and advice activities with other partners, including Digital Pathways at Oxford, as well as a learning and evaluation pillar. The programme will identify, trial and institutionalise good practice and common standards for digital development work. It will deliver sustainable and reusable digital products which create new or improved services; replicable business and partnership models to increase the use of digital products and data; data-driven policy-making tools and products to inform and advance transformation; and training offerings and skills-building tools to improve investments in digital technologies.
Congo Basin Forest Action Programme (CBFA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Through the Congo Basin Forest Action Programme, the UK will support the region’s vision for economic development by empowering Central African nations to achieve green development with forests as an entry point. Our work will reduce deforestation, promote restoration, maintain high conservation value forests and peatlands, and promote a step-change to a low-carbon future while ensuring the rights and aspirations of indigenous peoples and local communities are fully incorporated into decision-making.
Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries G2LM|LIC
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries (G2LM|LIC) programme aims to address the research gaps and generate and disseminate high-quality knowledge on the dynamics and opportunities for greater female participation in labour markets in Low Income Countries (LICs). This will lead to more informed policy debates and better evidence-based policy making on how to maximise employment opportunities for both men and women in LICs. In the long run, this will lead to more socially and economically empowered women, more efficient labour markets and more inclusive growth in LICs.