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Teacher Effectiveness and Equitable Access for Children (TEACH) in Zimbabwe

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

To safeguard educational gains made over the last decade. During this current period of economic instability and beyond, TEACH will sustain improvements made to learning outcomes and will target the poorest and most disadvantaged learners, including those with a disability. It will build on the learning from the previous United Kingdom (UK) support through the Education Development Fund but shifts focus to where it matters most by: • targeting the poorest schools so that they remain functional and can meet basic operational needs. • Testing and adapting evidence-based approaches to improve teacher effectiveness in the classroom, contributing to wider reforms of the national education system. • Supporting the Zimbabwean Government to end violence in schools by developing a comprehensive approach to safeguarding and positive discipline • Strengthening effective education systems so that they are more inclusive • Supporting improving financing of education

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-300252
Start date 2019-7-26
Status Implementation
Total budget £12,993,277

Strengthening Climate Resilient Systems for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Ethiopia (SCRS - WASH)

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

Improve access to climate-resilient water and improved sanitation services and good hygiene practices for 300,000 people in the prioritised drought-affected and drought-prone areas of Ethiopia. The proposed Strengthening Climate Resilient Systems for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Ethiopia (SCRS-WaSH) programme will contribute to the Government of Ethiopia's Climate Resilient WaSH provision to drought-prone areas. the programme aims to realise this through a combination of targeted Financial Aid and Technical Assistance support. The FA will focus primarily on improving climate-resilient WaSH facilities which ensure year-round access to resilient WaSH services at household, community and institution levels in the targeted intervention areas. This will be complemented with TA support that focuses on strengthening the WaSH delivery systems.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-300237
Start date 2019-10-8
Status Implementation
Total budget £97,548,550

Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL)

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

The programme works with government and civil society at federal and state levels to reduce inefficiency and corruption in the use of Nigerian resources and therefore improve delivery of services, including for women, girls and persons with disability. It does this in partnership with other DFID programmes supporting service delivery by helping Nigerian stakeholders improve accountability for use of resources including improving processes for raising revenue, allocating resources, planning and programme implementation.

Programme Id GB-1-204822
Start date 2015-8-31
Status Implementation
Total budget £129,888,507

Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage Programme Phase 2

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

This will be the UK’s second global, multi-sectoral programme to tackle child marriage and respond to its consequences. This programme will provide £18 million to deliver interventions across high prevalence countries, including fragile and conflict affected states, to prevent child marriages, lower global prevalence rates and support already married girls to have improved life outcomes. The programme will enable girls to take greater control over their lives and bodies. It will contribute to increased access to education for girls, reduced adolescent pregnancy and maternal deaths and a range of broader development outcomes. In addition, the programme will strengthen the international evidence base on what works to prevent child marriage and increase use of this evidence by a range of actors. This will in turn increase the effectiveness and efficiency of wider interventions aiming to end child marriage.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-301058
Start date 2022-3-7
Status Implementation
Total budget £17,999,999

India Challenge Enabling Fund (ICE)

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

ICE will support innovations, build evidence, share knowledge and technical expertise as pilots or strategic interventions to support the objectives of the India-UK road map and the Country Business Plan through ODA funding that supports development in India. It will aim to co-design interventions with Indian and UK institutions – government, civil society, think tanks – on specific questions/areas that will inform state/central policies, unlock resources, and promote sustainable and inclusive outcomes.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-400020
Start date 2023-10-19
Status Implementation
Total budget £729,393

"Girls and Out of School Children: Action for Learning (GOAL)".

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

The Girls and Out of School Children: Action for Learning (GOAL) programme will support the Governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to improve education outcomes for girls and the most marginalised, directly contributing to FCDO’s global commitments to girls’ education on access and learning.

Programme Id GB-1-205246
Start date 2023-2-9
Status Implementation
Total budget £129,999,994

T-WASH II - Transforming Access to WASH and Nutrition Services in Mozambique

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

To deliver sustainable, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and nutrition services to the poor in Mozambique. The programme will focus in areas of high child malnutrition, and address the specific needs of women and adolescent girls. It will build on the success of the current WASH programme, using performance indicators to drive the sustainability and equity of government and private sector service delivery at sub-national level. The programme will use evidence to influence policies and strategies that will lead to better health and nutritional outcomes for the poor. The programme will also build human capital for longer term economic development.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-300725
Start date 2020-9-4
Status Implementation
Total budget £55,821,502

Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response (BRAER)

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

The programme will provide emergency life-saving assistance to the large influxes of refugees arriving in Uganda, build resilience among refugees and their host communities to reduce Uganda’s humanitarian burden, and deliver on UK Humanitarian Reform priorities. It will support the UK in its leadership role to develop new approaches to protracted crises and in delivering on the New York Declaration’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, with regional and global impact.

Programme Id GB-1-205206
Start date 2018-7-11
Status Implementation
Total budget £169,200,015

Digital Access Programme

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

The Prosperity Fund cross-HMG 'Digital Access Programme' is a FCDO-led partnership with DCMS. It aims to catalyse more inclusive, affordable, safe and secure digital access for excluded and underserved communities in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. Increased digital inclusion in the programme countries will form the basis for more thriving digital ecosystems that generate high-skilled jobs, opportunities for local digital entrepreneurship focused on country-specific development challenges, as well as potential partnerships with international and UK business aimed at mutual prosperity. The Digital Access programme will also focus on learning about sustainable models and enablers for digital inclusion. The learnings will be shared with key stakeholders and other partner countries, thereby amplifying the impact of the programme.

Programme Id GB-1-204963
Start date 2019-7-16
Status Implementation
Total budget £59,538,522

Mozambique Demographic Transition - Waala - Programme

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

To contribute to a more favourable enabling environment for the demographic transition in Mozambique, through coordinated action with others. The FCDO will use programming, evidence and diplomacy to influence decision-makers to increase investments towards cost-effective interventions that will accelerate changes in the population structure. These interventions will help young people to fulfil their potential by preventing unintended pregnancies and improving the literacy and numeracy skills among girls. The Government’s systems will be strengthened to include population issues in planning and budgeting. Over 130,000 unintended pregnancies will be averted resulting in 427,000 users of modern contraceptives. These investments should help to offset deteriorating human capital outcomes because of COVID-19.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-300586
Start date 2021-7-26
Status Implementation
Total budget £30,304,126

Young Lives At Work, improved understanding of the effect of educational opportunities on labour market outcomes

UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

This globally respected research programme provides high impact open access and gender dissagregated data on educational access and outcomes, skills and transition to labour markets. Data over 15 years allows us to follow the paths of 12,000 children from early years through adolescence and into early adulthood, gaining valuable insights on educational trajectories and access to higher education and labour market entry.

Programme Id GB-GOV-1-301108
Start date 2019-12-20
Status Implementation
Total budget £9,399,989

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