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QUALITY HEALTH, HIV AND NUTRITION SERVICES
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Output 1.2: Health and nutrition service delivery points in targeted districts have the capacity to deliver quality Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH), HIV and nutrition services for all children and promote healthy behaviors., which contributes to Access To Quality Learning Opportunities, Cross-Sectoral - Social And Behaviour Change, Early Detection And Treatment Of Malnutrition, Early Detection And Treatment Of Malnutrition (Covid), Fast-Track The End Of Hiv/Aids, Health And Development In Early Childhood And Adolescence, Immunization Services As Part Of Primary Health Care, Immunization Services As Part Of Primary Health Care (Covid), Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being, Nutrition In Early Childhood, Nutrition In Early Childhood (Covid), Nutrition Of Adolescents And Women, Promotion Of Care, Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being And Justice, Promotion Of Care, Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being And Justice (Covid), Protection From Violence, Exploitation, Abuse And Neglect, Safe And Equitable Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Services And Practices, Safe And Equitable Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Services And Practices (Covid), Strengthening Primary Health Care And High-Impact Health Interventions, Strengthening Primary Health Care And High-Impact Health Interventions (Covid), Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Systems And Empowerment Of Communities. UNICEF aims to achieve this through Advocacy And Communications, Advocacy And Public Engagement, Community Engagement, Social And Behaviour Change, Data, Research, Evaluation And Knowledge Management, Developing And Leveraging Resources And Partnerships, Evaluations, Research And Data, Fostering Innovation And Use Of New Technologies, Operational Support To Programme Delivery, Partnerships And Engagement: Public And Private, Risk-Informed Humanitarian And Development Nexus Programming, Systems Strengthening And Institution Building, Systems Strengthening To Leave No One Behind, United Nations Working Together. This contributes to the following Country Programme result: Girls and boys, aged 0-5, in targeted districts, with a focus on the first 1,000 days, benefit from early learning, caring, nurturing, a clean and protective environment and quality, integrated, high-impact interventions.
Programme identifier:
XM-DAC-41122-Malawi-2690/A0/06/021/002
Start Date:
2019-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Households and communities are resilient to climate change and economic shocks, and are supported to overcome chronic vulnerabilities that affect children, which contributes to Access To Inclusive Social Protection, Access To Inclusive Social Protection (Covid), Access To Quality Learning Opportunities, Climate Change, Disaster Risks And Envionmental Degradation, Early Detection And Treatment Of Malnutrition, Health And Development In Early Childhood And Adolescence, Nutrition In Early Childhood, Nutrition Of Adolescents And Women, Promotion Of Care, Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being And Justice, Protection From Violence, Exploitation, Abuse And Neglect, Protection From Violence, Exploitation, Abuse And Neglect (Covid), Safe And Equitable Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Services And Practices, Strengthening Primary Health Care And High-Impact Health Interventions, Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Systems And Empowerment Of Communities. UNICEF aims to achieve this through Advocacy And Public Engagement, Developing And Leveraging Resources And Partnerships, Evaluations, Research And Data, Fostering Innovation And Use Of New Technologies, Harnessing Power Of Business And Markets, Operational Support To Programme Delivery, Systems Strengthening And Institution Building, Systems Strengthening To Leave No One Behind, United Nations Working Together. This contributes to the following Country Programme result: Girls and boys grow up in resilient, inclusive and child friendly communities, that are supported by enabling environment and systems that provide an equitable chance in life.
Programme identifier:
XM-DAC-41122-Malawi-2690/A0/06/023/003
Start Date:
2019-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Improved access to eye care services South West Region, Malawi
Sightsavers
Improved sustainability and equity of access to affordable and quality eye care services for people, with and without disabilities, in the project areas in Malawi and Uganda.
Programme identifier:
GB-CHC-207544-31034
Start Date:
2020-10-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£675,237
Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund Round 5
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is the fifth most lucrative transnational crime, worth up to £17bn a year globally. As well as threatening species with extinction, IWT destroys vital ecosystems. IWT also fosters corruption, feeds insecurity, and undermines good governance and the rule of law. The UK government is committed to tackling illegal trade of wildlife products. Defra manages the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, which is a competitive grants scheme with the objective of tackling illegal wildlife trade and, in doing so, contributing to sustainable development in developing countries. Projects funded under the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund address one, or more, of the following themes: • Developing sustainable livelihoods to benefit people directly affected by IWT • Strengthening law enforcement • Ensuring effective legal frameworks • Reducing demand for IWT products Over £23 million has been committed to 75 projects since the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund was established in 2013; five projects were awarded in 2014 (via applications to the Darwin Initiative), fourteen in 2015, fifteen in 2016, thirteen in 2017, fourteen in 2018 and in the latest round in 2019. This round of funding includes the following projects (details of which can be found at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811381/iwt-project-list-2019.pdf)): IWT062, IWT063, IWT064, IWT065, IWT066, IWT067, IWT068, IWT069, IWT070, IWT071, IWT072, IWT073, IWT074, IWT075.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-IWTCF-R5
Start Date:
2019-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£4,588,554
COMMUNITY BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Output 3.1: Communities are enabled to practice positive social behaviors in the best interest of the child and to demand the delivery of quality and resilient, child-friendly services., which contributes to Cross Sectoral - Gender Discriminatory Roles And Practices, Cross-Sectoral - Social And Behaviour Change, Health And Development In Early Childhood And Adolescence, Immunization Services As Part Of Primary Health Care, Learning, Skills, Participation And Engagement, Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being, Nutrition Of Adolescents And Women, Prevention Of Harmful Practice, Promotion Of Care, Mental Health And Psychosocial Well-Being And Justice, Protection From Violence, Exploitation, Abuse And Neglect. UNICEF aims to achieve this through Advocacy And Public Engagement, Community Engagement, Social And Behaviour Change, Developing And Leveraging Resources And Partnerships, Evaluations, Research And Data, Fostering Innovation And Use Of New Technologies, Operational Support To Programme Delivery, Systems Strengthening And Institution Building, United Nations Working Together. This contributes to the following Country Programme result: Girls and boys grow up in resilient, inclusive and child friendly communities, that are supported by enabling environment and systems that provide an equitable chance in life.
Programme identifier:
XM-DAC-41122-Malawi-2690/A0/06/023/001
Start Date:
2019-01-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£0
Changing Food Systems in Kenya and Malawi and the Challenge of Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
This research partnership involves a two-year programme of work focused on the ways in which rapidly changing cultures of poultry meat consumption and agricultural systems in particular Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) shape antibiotic use/misuse in farming, with implications for tackling the global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) health challenge. AMR, or in lay terms drug-resistant infections, is one of the top five priorities for the World Health Organization (WHO). The 2016 O'Neill report into 'Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally' warns that if the challenge is left unaddressed, deaths resulting from AMR on a global scale are predicted within the next three decades to reach some 10 million per year. AMR in agriculture and food systems is a critical area of concern, with increasing cases reported of strains of bacteria such as E.Coli, Campylobacter and Salmonella developing resistance to particular groups of antibiotics. While antibiotics are a necessary tool to maintain health and welfare on the farm, the problem is their inappropriate and disproportionate use in animals, thereby reducing availability for humans and also catalysing resistance. The first aim of the research partnership is to evaluate the relationships between changing urban diets incorporating increased meat consumption, transforming food systems and the use/misuse of antibiotics in agriculture. It will do so through a focus on the poultry sectors of Kenya and Malawi, in particular the urban contexts of Nairobi and Lilongwe, given the rapid rise of poultry production and consumption in both places and the increased and weakly regulated use of antibiotics in production. Moreover, Kenya and Malawi are a Lower Middle Income Country and a Least Developed Country, respectively, on a continent predicted to see the highest mortality rate from AMR by 2050. The second aim is to generate culturally and geographically sensitive approaches to antibiotic reduction and stewardship initiatives in these contexts, in ways that improve implementation of their governments' AMR National Action Plans. The premise of the research is that policies and targets for the reduction of antibiotic misuse in agriculture, whilst shaped by the WHO and a 'One Health' agenda, are most likely to be effective if their implementation is responsive to the specific pressures, constraints and opportunities experienced by farmers in the context of the particular food systems in which they are embedded, and to the cultural values shaping everyday farming practice. The partnership brings together an interdisciplinary team and wider network of researchers and policy-makers across Kenya, Malawi and the UK. The core team represent the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, the University of Malawi, Newcastle University, Southampton University and UCL. Collaboration in the partnership involves dialogue between the disciplines of Geography, History, Epidemiology, Medicine, Anthropology, Microbiology and Art to understand how cultural values and practices are integral to antibiotic use/misuse in the particular food systems and poultry sectors of Kenya and Malawi. The partnership also involves influential AMR policy institutions on its advisory board, including the UK's Food Standards Agency, the UN's Codex Alimentarius, Malawi's Ministry of Health and the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya as Project Partners. The model for the partnership involves a programme of interwoven scoping research, involving secondary and primary data collection in Kenya and Malawi, and three intensive workshops in London, Nairobi and Lilongwe. Research will develop understanding of the embeddedness of antibiotic use and AMR awareness in everyday cultures and practices of subsistence and commercial farming. From this research, recommendations will be made to Kenyan and Malawian AMR policy-makers regarding culturally-sensitive and effective approaches to antibiotic stewardship.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-AH_T004207_1
Start Date:
2019-12-31
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£188,793.19
Generation Malawi: A study of family, maternal and childhood mental health
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
A lack of research training, resources, infrastructure and data in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) greatly limits their ability to conduct studies of common mental health conditions. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa generally and in Malawi specifically, where sparse mental health care alone limits not only clinical research capacity, but also the ability to attract inward investment. In a partnership between UK and Malawian institutions, we propose to directly address this challenge by building clinical research capacity through the coordinated appointment of new researchers and research assistants, a programme of education and dissemination, and the development of a population mental health dataset focussed on an area of great unmet need - the mental heath of mothers and their children. After a period of piloting our research assessments and obtaining the necessary approvals, we will recruit 5000 mothers prior to delivery of their child from antenatal clinics in Lilongwe and Karonga districts, selected to represent urban and rural populations respectively. We will assess the mental health of mothers before and after birth, and the mental health of their spouses and other family members with a view to identifying the major risk factors for mental health disorders and mitigating variables that promote resilience. We will then examine the impact of maternal and, where possible, paternal mental health on the neurodevelopment of their offspring. In addition to creating new and highly valuable data, we will also create the bioresources needed for future genetics and 'omics based research. We believe this is essential to prevent the current imbalance in genetic research favouring rich countries of predominantly European ancestries leading to greater entrenchment of global health inequalities. As part of the proposed work, we will develop internationally competitive research capacity and datasets in Malawi, augment standard of care treatment, develop research training and the availability of affordable and effective interventions for depression and other common mental disorders, such as the ""Friendship Bench"" intervention. Our research will be multidisciplinary, involving experts from psychiatry, clinical psychology, nursing, reproductive and child health, and social sciences in both UK and Malawi. Throughout the project, we will carefully monitor our progress and impact on the participants and their communities. The project, if funded, will lead to a step change in mental health research capacity in Malawi, paving the way for new inward investment and the development of evidence based interventions and policies.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-13-FUND--GCRF-MR_S035818_1
Start Date:
2019-08-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£3,736,689.23