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Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Advancing SRHR by Strengthening Grassroots Organisations and Countering Efforts to Roll Back Rights
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will strengthen grassroots and civil society organisations, networks and movements to defend and advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in their own communities and countries. It will also strengthen the international enabling environment for these efforts, in the context of intensified international pushback against women’s and girls’ and LGBT+ rights.
Middle East and North Africa Regional Humanitarian Response.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This project will provide support to the MENA region to respond to crises in order to: Save lives and prevent suffering via humanitarian support, including to international partners. Facilitate the enabling environment of the humanitarian response in country, through close engagement with national authorities and humanitarian partners, and advocacy towards effective coordination. Maximise impact, promote UK leadership and strengthen bilateral relations with partner Governments.
Kenya Integrated Refugee and Host Community Support Programme (PAMOJA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote social and economic integration between approximately 400,000 refugees and 50,000 people living in host communities in Kenya by supporting the provision of basic humanitarian assistance and livelihood.
Umoyo Wathu Health System Strengthening Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce rates and inequalities in maternal, under-5 and new-born deaths; as well as reduce stunting in under-5s, by strengthening the quality and coverage of a package of essential health services through lower level district administration. The programme will increase the provision and uptake of quality, highly cost effective life-saving primary healthcare services provided free at the point of use, and so better protect the most vulnerable against the financial consequences of ill health. By 2028, the programme will contribute to reducing maternal mortality from 439 to 350 per 100,000 births; neonatal mortality from 27 to 22 per 1,000 live births; child mortality from 64 to 48 per 1,000 live births; stunting in children under five years of age reduced from 37% to 31%; and impact of communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics.
European Union Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To work through the EU Emergency Trust Fund to promote stability in three regions of Africa and enable better migration management. This will be achieved by tackling the root causes of forced displacement and irregular migration through creating job opportunities, improving food security and access to health and education services. It will work to improve regional migration management processes including fighting human trafficking and other trans-border crimes, helping people return to their countries of origin and dealing with human rights abuses. This UK contribution will support programmes in development in the Horn of Africa: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. This project was approved before the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. Work is now under way to understand the implications of leaving the EU for the UK’s development work.
UK Humanitarian Support in Palestine.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The “Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs)” programme aims to improve the resilience of households to mitigate the consequences of the protracted protection crisis in the OPTs; save lives during emergency spikes, for example a flare up in violence; and prevent a further deterioration in the humanitarian situation until a more durable political solution is reached.
Sahel Humanitarian Assistance and Protection Programme 2021-2028
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The SHAPP will provide assistance and protection for the most vulnerable in geographic hotspots of most acute need in the Sahel. Hotspots are found across the region where consequences of conflict, including violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, are making pre-existing food insecurity and malnutrition worse. The SHAPP will address as many basic needs as possible of the most vulnerable including child protection, support to victims or survivors of gender based violence, food, nutrition, water and sanitation. Human rights and international humanitarian law will remain at the centre of the new programme by informing and driving SHAPP design and priorities.
Scaling up Family Planning in Tanzania
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This is a national programme to scale up access to family planning across Tanzania. Specific activities will include: • Outreach work in rural and urban areas as well as in Tanzania’s refugee camps and host communities. • Specific work to improve access to family planning as well as sexual and reproductive health information to youth, people with disabilities as well as services for victims of sexual violence. • Procure family planning commodities, strengthen the supply chain, and train of public health providers
Rohingya Response and National Resilience Programme (RRNRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve protection and quality of humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya population living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, so that they can live full and meaningful lives. This to be done peacefully living alongside host communities, for whom the impacts of the crisis need to be reduced and development opportunities provided. The programme marks a shift in FCDO’s (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) response to the crisis by providing longer term, predictable support to address the needs of both refugees and host communities. Whilst the focus will be on sustaining and improving the humanitarian operation through provision of quality basic services, there will be a specific focus on stimulating the economy, rehabilitating the environment, and promoting stability for both populations’ benefit. The programme aim to support COVID-19 and early emergency recovery support for national resilience by providing support to the national COVID-19 and disaster response.
Data and Research in Education (DARE) programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will address key constraints in Pakistan's education system to enable quality education for all children, particularly for girls and those marginalised by location, ethnicity, religion and disability. On the one hand it will work with the state to the strengthen the education data system. This is crucial for efficient and effective education service delivery by enabling better identification of need, allocation of resources and measurement of progress - particularly for girls. On the other hand, the programme will work with civil society to promote innovative solutions to the challenges identified through better data, and expose these to rigorous research to build evidence on what works.
Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) programme is a significant investment by the UK to support Nepal’s climate change adaptation and disaster risk management efforts. The programme is aligned with UK’s International Development Strategy and various international climate commitments. It aims to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in Nepal by strengthening government systems, mobilising climate finance, and enhancing social protection mechanisms.
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.
Strengthening Humanitarian Access in Nigeria (SHAN) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme aims at strengthening existing platforms that enable humanitarian access to North East Nigeria
Humanitarian Assistance, Recovery and Protection (HARP) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The HARP programme will provide lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable people in Ukraine and Moldova, delivering in line with commitments set out in the UK humanitarian framework. The programme will prioritise humanitarian assistance to the areas of most severe needs, protect civilians, particularly those who may face barriers to accessing assistance, with a focus on gender-based violence and promotion of International Humanitarian Law and prevent the deterioration of households into humanitarian need through preparedness efforts to mitigate impact of shocks.
Support to Social Protection Programme 2 (SSPP2)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Government of Mozambique to develop a bigger, better and more shock responsive social protection system. SSPP2 will help poor and vulnerable people meet their basic needs and cope better with crises through social protection. It will expand the Government of Mozambique’s social protection programmes to deliver more cash transfers to the most vulnerable. It will provide technical assistance to improve social protection programme delivery and value for money, making government programmes more efficient, effective and equitable. It will develop government capacity to respond to crises quickly and effectively through the national social protection system. The programme will leverage additional donor and government resources of about £70m per year. Ultimately, SSPP2 will support the creation of a sustainable, nationally owned system to redistribute revenues from gas that Mozambique is expected to start earning in the next decade.
Humanitarian Action and Recovery after Crisis programme (HARC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
DRC is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, driven by conflict, poor governance, a predatory political system, and low state capacity. Civilians, particularly women and children, are often targeted by armed actors. It is a protracted crisis. FCDO and partners in DRC have a role in shifting the trajectory. To do this the UK needs a holistic approach to address new humanitarian needs, support recovery and household ability to cope with shocks and help survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) recover. BEK will focus our programme on the east of DRC with flexibility to respond to new crises that may develop elsewhere in the country.
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.
Tanzania Humanitarian Assistance Programme (THAP).
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Tanzania Humanitarian Assistance Programme (THAP) will support more effective and principled humanitarian action that meets the needs of refugees and asylum seekers in line with the UK commitments in the International Development Strategy. In the short term, programme will prioritise immediate needs of new arrivals and maintains appropriate cost-effective humanitarian protection assistance for the protracted refugee caseloads. THAP aims at a long-term approach towards policy changes through targeted policy advocacy, influencing and coordination.
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.
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