Aid by Sector
UK - Ghana Partnership for Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote Ghana as an investment destination of choice in West Africa; to support investment into job-creating sectors, particularly through UK investment, partnering development partners including CDC; to support Global Britain objectives across HMG, on trade, prosperity, bilateral cooperation with China on investment issues; to support the UK Ghana Chamber to meet wider UK objectives around responsible development and trade.
Corridors for Growth
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme supports the development of efficient, resilient and inclusive transport infrastructure in Tanzania, focusing on the central trade corridor to promote trade, economic growth, job creation and poverty reduction. Delivered through a World Bank Trust Fund and a partnership with Railway Children Africa, the programme supports: (i) modernisation and expansion of the Port of Dar es Salaam and strengthening of Tanzania Port Authority operations to increase trade capacity and reduce transport costs; (ii) technical assistance, project preparation and analytical work to improve climate-resilient transport infrastructure planning and develop a pipeline of investment-ready projects capable of leveraging public and private finance; and (iii) strengthening Tanzania's public-private partnership framework and institutional capacity while embedding safeguarding standards for vulnerable transport users.
The Global Innovation Lab - (Continuation of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Global Innovation Lab (the Lab) is a public-private partnership that brings together experts from Governments, investors and civil society to discuss and help understand the barriers to investment. It works to identify, refine, and launch innovative financial instruments to attract private investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation at scale. It aims to drive billions of dollars of private investment into low-carbon, climate resilient economies.
The Ethiopia Investment Advisory Facility (EIAF) Phase II Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme aim to provide flexible, demand-led technical assistance to Government of Ethiopia ministries, agencies and state-owned enterprises in order to enhance the effectiveness of public investments and improve the enabling environment for exporters. By providing technical expertise and capacity building in the areas of public investment management; industrial parks and their supporting infrastructure; and trade logistics, EIAF II aims to contribute to outward oriented, manufacturing led, sustainable and inclusive growth in Ethiopia.
Triggering Investment, Growth & Economic Resilience (TIGER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
TIGER will allow the UK to support the recovery of Ukraine’s economy in a way that reduces its reliance on external financing, provides a conducive environment for refugees to return, and accelerates convergence with future markets. It will achieve this through five flexible components that can adjust to a deterioration of the situation on the ground and are designed to increase access to finance for Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises, and attract investment through new financial vehicles. It will support economic reforms, progress durable solutions in collaboration with the humanitarian response and establish private sector partnerships to tackle growing labour market constraints through increasing the economic participation of women, persons with disabilities, displaced populations, veterans and other marginalised groups.
Innovative Ventures & Technologies for Development (INVENT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To encourage innovation amongst the private sector by provision of investment capital and business development services. To innovative enterprises in low income states of India for enterprises in developing countries by 2024. This will contribute to MDGs by benefitting 1 million individuals with improved access to affordable and efficient services in the Low Income States of India and Developing Countries.
IMPACT - Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets that work for the poor. FCDO is aiming to catalyse the market for impact investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Impact investments are those which have both a financial and social return by benefiting poor and low-income people through improved access to affordable goods and services and income generating opportunities. The Impact Programme aims to promote solutions to the barriers and constraints that are preventing Impact Investing from scaling up in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The programme seeks to foster a significant increase in the volume and distribution of impact investment, reaching the underserved as consumers, suppliers, distributors or employees, in hard to reach, difficult geographies, and through innovative business models.
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.
Jordan Investment & Economic Reform Advisory Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Technical support to enable the Government of Jordan to conduct reforms designed to stimulate equitable economic growth, increase jobs and investment and reduce poverty.
GFP - Global Finance Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Leverages the UK’s unique position as the world’s leading financial centre to increase access to finance for firms and individuals where beneficiaries are in developing countries, promoting shared prosperity through inclusive economic growth overseas, and the development of new markets in developing countries.
FSDA - Financial Sector Deepening Africa Platform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To drive inclusive growth through a combination of grants and development capital investments that build financial markets and institutions. The programme delivers ambitious multi-country activities and focused, local interventions which seek to strengthen capital markets, promote financial innovation, and help Africa finance a greener future.
The Growth Gateway programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To establish a coordinated and improved service to businesses exporting to, importing from and investing in developing markets and businesses from developing markets to access UK Government trade, investment and finance services that increases trade and investment to developing markets. The programme will prioritise for support businesses who through their operations and products can deliver positive environmental and development impact, and support for businesses and governments will include promoting climate sensitive approaches and international standards on environmental practice, and identifying and supporting opportunities for climate smart investment.
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.
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.
Manufacturing Africa - Foreign Direct Investment
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Manufacturing Africa helps drive the inclusive economic transformation needed to create jobs for the future and set countries on a trajectory out of poverty. It is expected to generate £1.2 billion of new Foreign Direct Investment in manufacturing sectors in Africa. It will do this by working with African Governments and international companies to facilitate new investments, such as by developing the business case for firms to undertake investment, or by supporting their negotiations with Government, and by addressing sector specific barriers preventing those particular investments from taking place. MA also aims to reduce carbon emissions from manufacturing through thought leadership as well as delivering technical assistance and supporting investments that facilitate climate change mitigation and or adaptation.
Malawi Trade and Investment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MTIP aims to stimulate a step change in Malawi’s growth by promoting higher value export sectors, cutting time and costs of trade and logistics, and raising international and domestic investment in new exports. Underpinning this will be a focused effort to improve the business enabling environment. Higher economic growth is expected to translate into sustained poverty reduction, creating new jobs and income generating opportunities and much needed revenue to fund the public services needed for a fast-growing population. Specifically, programme aims include reducing the costs of trade for Malawi by 10% and converting over 5,000 hectares of land to more productive high value export crops.
Zimbabwe Economic Stability and Transformation (ZEST) programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will support reforms to improve the economic and business environment in Zimbabwe, in order to unlock Zimbabwe’s prosperity potential. This will help reduce poverty in Zimbabwe through putting the country on a pathway to economic development and job creation. It will also benefit the UK through fostering trade and investment links
Global Land Governance programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The goal of the Land Facility is to improve stability, inclusive growth and responsible investment by promoting more effective, efficient and equitable rural and urban land governance. The programme will help build basic capacity and systems and mobilise the necessary political support, so governments can implement and resource sustained land governance reform, leading to improved tenure security for all. Improved tenure security will contribute to a number of climate benefits; transformational change, reduced deforestation, increased resilience and sustainable land management practices. It will run for 7 years and will initially work in up to 10 countries in Africa and South East Asia depending on size and needs.
Transformative Economic Policy Programme - Bangladesh (TEPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve economic policymaking in Bangladesh through technical assistance to government, strengthening expertise of local think tanks and publishing economic data.
Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Kenya Catalytic Jobs Fund will test innovations that have the potential for large-scale job creation, unlocking barriers in key productive sectors and/or generating employment for those that are most vulnerable e.g. youth living with disability. The programme will focus particularly on youth and through a flexible fund, it will provide a mix of technical assistance and grant support to innovations with the aim to generatre evidence on what works and what doesn't in creating jobs.
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