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Food Security Safety Net Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
As FCDO Yemen’s flagship programme it will provide immediate life-saving assistance to those most in need (including women and marginalised groups) and ensure a more sustainable response to on-going high humanitarian needs and unexpected shocks in this protracted crisis context.
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.
The UK’s contribution to the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, FRIT 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Facility will help people who have fled the conflict in Syria and now live in Turkey. Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, including 3.6 million Syrians. Support will include humanitarian assistance, education, healthcare and employment support. Helping refugees and host communities in the region makes an important contribution to addressing the European refugee crisis. All decisions on programme funding are in line with the UK Aid Strategy.
Humanitarian Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Humanitarian Access programme in the OPTs will Support humanitarian access and Gaza reconstruction through funding to the United Nations Access Coordination Unit (ACU) and the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism Project Management Unit (GRM-PMU). This project also includes a Humanitarian contingency to allow for speedy response in case of spikes in humanitarian need. Humanitarian assistance will be provided to respond to Health, Shelter, Food, WASH, cash assistance and protection needs.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience in South Sudan (HARISS) 2015 - 2024
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To help approximately three million South Sudanese by providing critical life-saving support and helping people to better cope with shocks from conflict, drought and flooding. This programme aims to save the lives of an estimated two million people who will receive at least one form of humanitarian assistance; and build the capacity of an estimated one million people to recover and cope better with shocks. Over six years this programme will provide food, shelter and access to water and health services to millions of vulnerable people, including women and children.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Africa Humanitarian Response Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This fund provides support to small and medium scale new or emerging humanitarian responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tackling Maternal and Child Undernutrition Programme- Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute towards improved health and nutrition status for children under two years measured primarily by a reduction in stunting by 2023.
Productivity for Prosperity (P4P)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Productivity for Prosperity is a sustainable economic transformation programme that will increase labour productivity and climate-resilience in Tanzania’s job-creating sectors. It will achieve this through private sector development (investment facilitation, trade facilitation and building capabilities of firms) and business environment reform (supporting proportionate and predictable regulation). P4P will dovetail with the UK’s external engagement and influencing activities in Tanzania. P4P will initially prioritise the agroprocessing and horticulture sectors, and will provide flexible support to bolster the UK’s current and future prosperity objectives.
Building Resilience and adapting to climate change in Malawi
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to strengthen the resilience of poor households in Malawi to withstand current and projected weather and climate-related shocks and stresses. This will in turn halt the annual cycle of humanitarian crises that blights people’s lives, harms poverty reduction efforts and swallows up resources. The UK will invest up to £90.5 million over five years [2018-2023] to provide direct benefits to 1.7 million poor and vulnerable people in Malawi [approximately 300,000 households].
Adaptation for Smallholder Agricultural Programme (ASAP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide knowledge and best practices to help over 6 million smallholder farmers in up to 43 countries adapt to climate change. Grants will be made to: build small scale water-harvesting, water storage and irrigation systems for farmers; provide farmers with improved seeds that are drought tolerant; help farmers access markets to sell their crops; to plant trees on farms and introduce soil and water conservation practices; and, enable farmers to access daily and seasonal weather forecasts (e.g. using text messages) so they know when best to plant and harvest crops.”
Enabling predictable, quick and effective responses to humanitarian crises
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support people affected by disasters, conflict and displacement globally, the programme will; provide high volumes of time-critical humanitarian assistance to save lives and mitigate suffering, through a high-performing Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), and potentially other emergency funds, that can rapidly release funds where and when they are needed most, including in advance of imminent crises; support strategic investments in improved quality and effectiveness of country level responses to urgent needs i.e. based on joint needs assessments and a collective approach to accountability.
African Risk Capacity (ARC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a parametric (index-based) weather risk insurance pool that will provide participating African countries with predictable, quick-disbursing funds with which to implement pre-defined contingency response plans in the case of a drought.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme ( HARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
In line with the G7 Famine Prevention Compact, Nigeria’s Humanitarian and Resilience Programme (HARP) will provide life-saving support to the most vulnerable and strengthen resilience, opening pathways to livelihoods. HARP will enhance overall effectiveness of the UN-led humanitarian response, including a focus on building Nigerian ownership.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Building in Somalia (HARBS) 2022-2028
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of conflict and disaster affected populations through provision of life-saving assistance and contribute to resilience building of benefitting households to withstand shocks.
Zimbabwe Humanitarian and Resilience Programme (ZHARP) 2019-24
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will deliver cash transfers to up to 10,125 of Zimbabwe’s most food-insecure people in the urban setting of Chiredzi town. In addition the programme will work on synergies with WFP and other donors to pilot approaches to building the resilience of vulnerable urban populations to economic and climatic shocks.
Ethiopia Crises 2 Resilience (EC2R)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ethiopia Crises to Resilience (EC2R) programme is aimed to alleviate the impact of the conflict and drought to the poorest Ethiopians. The programme tries to address urgent humanitarian needs while maintaining the delivery of essential services across the country.
Burma Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To save lives, reduce poverty and suffering of 400,000 crisis affected people in Burma and Burmese refugees in Thailand through providing humanitarian assistance, enhancing resilience and building local and international organisations’ capacity to respond to future humanitarian need in Burma
Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund Programme (ZRBF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the resilience capacity of households affected by climatic shocks and trends through inclusive economic development. The programme will have a risk financing mechanism to make timely, appropriate and predictable funding available for communities that experience large scale humanitarian shocks. The program will also build evidence to improve the policy environment and stimulate service provision to enhance household and community resilience.
Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) programme supports small and medium-sized (SME) agribusinesses with smallholder supply chains to grow and attract investment for high development impact. CASA aims to build inclusive, climate-resilient agri-food systems that increase smallholder farmer incomes and strengthen food production, food security and nutrition outcomes in priority countries.
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