Aid by Sector
UK Support to Palestinian Refugees(UKSPR) 2022-2028
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide predictable, multi-year funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East which will help the Agency deliver basic education including to girls, health services including family planning, vaccines and pre-natal and anti-natal services, relief services and humanitarian aid to more than 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Shule Bora - Quality Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
A national education programme to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme will improve learning outcomes for all children, improve transition rates to secondary school for girls, reduce physical and sexual violence in and around schools, and help children with disabilities access quality education. The programme will work with the Government of Tanzania on achieving these outcomes through a payment-by-results mechanism, supported by technical assistance. The programme will also directly deliver innovative approaches to improving education quality in 9 regions of Tanzania through a contracted Managing Agent, alongside ongoing evaluation and learning.
Tristan da Cunha Provision of Technical Assistance and Essential Infrastructure 2023 to 2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable the Administration of Tristan da Cunha to provide appropriate public services to meet the basic health, education, safeguarding and governance needs of the island community, through the provision of professional expertise and training.
Strengthening Malawi’s Education System
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to improve the quality of education service delivery in Malawi so more girls and boys successfully progress through and complete primary school with measureable improvements in learning outcomes. This will contribute towards the UK’s efforts to support human capital development so more Malawians have the foundations and skills to fulfil their potential and contribute towards national development.
Empowerment and Development for Girls Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To expand access and improve education outcomes for 36,100 Girls in Zambia by increasing the number of secondary schools and improving teaching quality in rural areas
Girls Education Challenge (Phase II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Girls' Education Challenge Phase 2 will enable up to 1 million marginalised girls (currently supported through Phase 1) to continue to learn, complete primary school and transition on to secondary education. A further 500,000 highly marginalised adolescent girls, who are out of school, will also be targeted to gain literacy, numeracy and other skills relevant for life and work. It is estimated that at least 400,000 girls will complete junior secondary school in the first four years of the extension. The extension will build on what we have learnt so far in Phase 1 and further deepen global understanding of what works for girls’ education, particularly during adolescence and in the transition from education to work.
Education Quality Improvement Programme in Bangladesh EQUIP-B
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the quality of primary and secondary education through needs-based, targeted technical assistance (TA) via Education Quality Improvement Programme in Bangladesh (EQUIP-B). EQUIP-B will contribute to strengthen education system’s efficiency and effectiveness, specifically targeting improved learning outcomes and girls’ retention in primary and secondary education. Major focus areas include improved teachers’ skills and efficiency, learning assessment, girls’ friendly school environment, develop integrated data management system and its use, and evidence-based influencing of policies and programmes.
Bridge For Girls Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support for rural, disadvantaged girls in Malawi to pursue their aspirations – either in school or out of school. This is in form of scholarships and wrap-up mentorship for girls who have received good results in school, passed primary school and were admitted to secondary school but cannot afford it due to extreme poverty.
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.
"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.
Zambia Social Protection Expansion Programme Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide small grants to vulnerable households especially those with disabled and elderly persons in order for them to have regular monthly income to take care of their basic needs
Scaling Access and Learning in Education (SCALE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SCALE will bring together UK-led expertise, funding, support, and influence to increase the uptake of cost-effective interventions that deliver foundational learning outcomes for all, especially disadvantaged girls and boys. Partner governments will be offered demand-driven support to adapt evidence-based interventions to new contexts and implement rigorous test-learn-adapt pilots to ready these for scaling in national systems. The focus on scale and sustainability will multiply the UK’s investment over time. This will accelerate progress against the UK-led G7 girls’ education objectives on access and learning.
Sierra Leone Secondary Education Improvement Programme II (SSEIP II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve primary and secondary schooling for 1.5 million children and will also improve English and maths results for 400,000 students in secondary school, make schools safer for 150,000 adolescent girls, and target support for disabled students. Would help Sierra Leone achieve its ambition (as one of three country pilots) to improve its standing on the Human Capital Index – it is currently 151st out of 157 countries.
Enhancing the bilateral relationship between the UK and Laos
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will consist of six small projects that will all work towards supporting our overall Embassy Country Business Plan goals. This will specifically include – - Supporting poverty reduction - Improving basic healthcare - Empowering the participation of women in defending environmental rights - Implementing a mobile veterinary unit in Laos - Enhancing the collaboration of the UK and Lao government through supporting attendance at global conferences
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.
Good Governance Fund (Phase 3) Eastern Neighbourhood: Supporting Governance and Economic Reform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Good Governance Fund Phase 3 will deliver demand-led support to governance reforms that allow open societies and economies to flourish. The Good Governance Fund will focus on improving democratic and economic governance, primarily through strategically targeted technical assistance. The Good Governance Fund programme will deliver interventions on a flexible basis, based on identified needs and/or requests from government counterparts or civil society in beneficiary countries (Armenia, Georgia and Moldova) in support of governance and economic reforms. This will support delivery and seek to prevent/reverse democratic backsliding. The Good Governance Fund is part of an integrated portfolio of programmes operating in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate region and supports the delivery of four National Security Council strategies and the Integrated Review.
Promoting Equalities Regional Programme (PEP-Regional)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will build capabilities on gender and equalities through scaling up provision of practical advice, technical expertise, and support to posts and regions. The programme will strengthen bridges between posts and central teams, sharing evidence, lessons and best practice. It will support posts to identify and act on opportunities through policy, ODA programmes, and diplomacy to meet our raised ambition. Posts will be better able to navigate available FCDO resources, including centres of expertise and Helpdesk facilities, including those covering disability, violence against women and girls and LGBT+ rights. By bringing together UK influence, investment, expertise and evidence, this programme will strengthen progress on tackling gender and equalities and bring about wider benefits through investing in people and in capabilities. The programme will be delivered predominantly through additional regional gender and equality advisory roles.
Propcom+ - Supporting economic development in conflict and climate affected regions in Nigeria.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support inclusive and resilient growth by promoting a transformation of Nigeria’s rural economy. It will do this by addressing the key challenges in environmental, social, and economic dimensions of Nigeria’s food and land-use system. To increase the incomes and climate resilience of 3.79 million poor and vulnerable men and women in Nigeria by: (a) scaling-up Proven climate-smart business models and markets; (b) developing and Piloting new business models that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, and reduce emissions, and (c) supporting enabling Policies for an improved enabling environment for sustainable land and agricultural systems.
Girls' Education Skills Programme (GESP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Girls’ Education Skills Partnership (GESP) is the UK’s first public-private education partnership of its kind. It will provide high-quality and market-relevant skills training to girls and young women aged 13-25 in Nigeria and Bangladesh, through which they will become entrepreneurial and employable in sectors such as information technology, manufacturing, and other STEM-related fields.
Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS) programme will take an integrated approach to help Syrians in need to feed themselves and their families. It will help around 65,000 Syrians in need per year to be less reliant on harmful coping behaviours (like skipping meals, child labour, or recruitment to violent and extremist groups) and less dependent on emergency aid, and to be more self-reliant and more economically and socially resilient to shocks and stresses. It will deliver interventions at local level, and particularly target women, young people, and those with disabilities, whom we know are especially vulnerable in the various Syria contexts.
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