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Grant to the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) to establish inclusive multistakeholder platforms to tackle plastic pollution with partner countries.
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) brings together governments, businesses, and civil society in countries committing to tackling plastic pollution, to support meaningful and tangible action. GPAP operates globally through partnerships that bring the GPAP model to priority Official Development Assistance (ODA)-eligible countries. Through key activities in convening, building roadmaps, and identifying financing solutions, GPAP aims to foster a collaborative approach to reducing plastic pollution, and ultimately improve the environment and the quality of life for people and communities impacted by plastic pollution. GPAP’s work is guided by three strategic pillars: • Convening communities and curating conversations • Generating new insights and action roadmaps • Catalysing coordinated action to scale solutions
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-BPFGPAP
Start Date:
2021-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£11,500,000
Cities4Forests
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Cities4Forests programme provides a network, between cities in developing nations, to share lessons learned and baselines on forest restoration and protection programmes. This allows best practice to be identified and adopted across cities’ interventions and facilitates accelerated innovation. Defra’s investment in Cities4Forests will finance specific activities that will help decision makers and officials in cities, in a number of developing countries, access tools, resources and technical assistance that can support them in developing policies and interventions to protect and restore forests. The programme will also seek to deliver a ‘global mayoral declaration’ on the value of trees and forests and their role in combatting climate change. The programme will focus on: strengthening institutional capacity and capability through technical assistance to improve developing country’s city government support for and investment in trees, forests, and green infrastructure; supporting developing country’s city governments to increase investment (political, economic, and social) and implement new and/or improved programs to support the management and conservation of inner and nearby forests; supporting and encouraging developing country mayors to increase political action and support for trees and forests as a solution for combatting climate change, supporting better water management, and improving human health and well-being.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-7-PO020-C4F
Start Date:
2020-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£560,000
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II: funding for 2020 workplan
UK - Department of Health (DH)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR provided funding to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) which aims to support collaborative research that accelerates the clinical development of new or improved interventions to prevent or treat poverty related as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa. NIHR has supported research as part of the 2020 Workplan focussed on: ‘Mobilisation of funding for COVID-19 research in sub-Saharan Africa’; ‘Addressing gender and diversity gaps in clinical research capacity at the EDCTP Regional Networks of Excellence; and ""Capacity development for disease outbreak and epidemic response in sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)"". This activity is a component of European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II programme (GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2).
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2_2020WP
Start Date:
2020-08-28
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,350,000
Carbon Initiative For Development (Ci-Dev)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-ICF-0025-CiDev
Start Date:
2013-03-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,809,954
Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation & Commercialisation - Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Alumni
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-InCAP
Start Date:
2019-07-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,725,780.85
Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation & Commercialisation - Africa Prize CARE
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
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
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-GCRF-InCCARE
Start Date:
2020-03-06
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£575,974
Royal Academy of Engineering Core - Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation aims to stimulate and reward engineering entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Prize encourages ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African engineering innovators from all disciplines to apply their skills to develop scalable solutions to local challenges, highlighting the importance of engineering as an enabler of improved quality of life and economic development. Crucial commercialisation support is awarded to a shortlist of innovative applicants, through an eight-month period of training and mentoring.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-13-RAENG-GCRF-03
Start Date:
2018-06-13
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,665,852.69
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-3-CSSF
Start Date:
2017-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£1,168,915,063
Africa Humanitarian Response Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
This fund provides support to small and medium scale new or emerging humanitarian responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300531
Start Date:
2018-11-30
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£64,300,670
Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade Program
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
IWT Green Corridor- Tackling IWT as a serious organised crime: strengthening end to end law enforcement. Building coalitions: engaging the private sector, NGOs and academia; harnessing technology and innovation. Closing markets for illegally traded wildlife products: building on the Chinese ivory trade ban
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300625
Start Date:
2018-10-08
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,502,000
The UK's Contribution to ATscale, the global partnership for assistive technology
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To improve access to assistive technology, also known as AT, by contributing to ATscale, the global partnership for assistive technology. This funding and funding from other donors will be used to catalyse access to AT for 500 million people by 2030, through ATscale's two strategic objectives as follows. 1. Develop an Enabling Environment for increased access to high-quality, affordable AT by growing political will, advocating for and informing policy reform, mobilising investment, and strengthening systems and service delivery at global, regional, and country levels. 2. Identify interventions required to Shape Markets and overcome supply and demand-side barriers for priority AT. ATscale already works at global level and is choosing countries for in-depth support. The priority products for ATscale are wheelchairs, glasses, hearing aids, prosthetics and orthotics, and digital devices. This delivers on a commitment at the Global Disability Summit in July 2018.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300727
Start Date:
2019-12-27
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£9,000,000
Pan Africa Department Cross-Portfolio Third Party Monitoring (TPM)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To provide timely, relevant feedback on the quality of results systems, data and partner delivery that is used to drive improvements to programme delivery and reporting by implementing partners, and provide a higher level of assurance in what is delivered and achieved through DFID’s spending under the Africa Regional Department (ARD).
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300765
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,626,724
DFID-Royal Society Africa Initiative: Strengthening capacity in African Higher Education to support development through science
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
This pilot programme is designed to increase the research capacity of Universities and research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa, develop well trained staff able to help shape the future of the research and academic communities in their country and to help identify the skills gap in African Higher Education Institutions in order to produce policy recommendations to address this shortage in the longer term
Project identifier:
GB-1-203041
Start Date:
2012-01-12
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£15,376,236
Strengthening Research Institutions in Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Strengthening Research Institutions in Africa ,SRIA, will strengthen the research systems in DFID partner countries, in Africa, so that both local and donor research investment achieves economic and social impact. It will do this by strengthening the institutions that regulate and shape research in country to ensure that research investment is aligned with national development priorities. It will invest in the building blocks of research, for example, access to global research, recruitment and retention of researchers and more equitable research partnerships between northern and southern researchers. Whilst also driving increased coherence of UK ODA research spend to ensure it has a greater impact.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300781
Start Date:
2018-11-30
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£19,999,999
I2I - Ideas to Impact - Testing new technologies and innovative approaches to address development challenges.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
I2I stimulates technological innovations addressing intractable development challenges, initially in the focal areas of energy, water and climate, and then increasingly in emerging “frontier” technologies with broader applicability. It tests different funding mechanisms and approaches - including prizes, peer-to-peer financing, Frontier Technology Livestreaming, and innovative cross-government partnerships - for ensuring technology ideas lead to a real-world development impact.
Project identifier:
GB-1-201879
Start Date:
2014-04-30
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£41,386,505
Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries G2LM|LIC
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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.
Project identifier:
GB-1-202568
Start Date:
2011-08-10
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£24,599,994
REACH: Improving water security for poor people
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To support Sustainable reduction in water insecurity in developing countries by producing robust and accessible evidence for governments, municipalities and other investment\policy decision makers and therefore long term, improved wellbeing for poor people dependent on water for livelihoods, health, environmental services in Africa and South Asia. This contributes towards our MDGs by providing efficient and sustainably managed water systems which will support increased water security for between 2.5 - 5 million people, while helping sustain and preserve water resources by 2021.
Project identifier:
GB-1-201880
Start Date:
2013-08-29
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£22,499,998
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
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-3-BBCWS
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£403,319,531.71
Africa Food Trade and Resilience programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300489
Start Date:
2018-09-28
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£35,199,993
M4H - Mobile for Humanitarian: Exploring the use of mobile technology to provide life-enhancing services during humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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.
Project identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300446
Start Date:
2017-09-11
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£15,499,997