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Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
South Sudan Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Programme (SSHARP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Programme will save lives and alleviate poverty through providing live saving humanitarian assistance, strengthen protection and promote access to basic services to conflict affected population, rebuild resilience and protect the most vulnerable people particularly women, girls and people living with disability.
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.
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.
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.
Africa Humanitarian Response Fund II (AHRF II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will deliver quality humanitarian assistance in African contexts where the FCDO has no in-country humanitarian expertise or where a regional response is more efficient than a country-by-country approach. It will address severe humanitarian needs where the UK has comparative advantages. It will prioritise life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations in protracted humanitarian contexts in the Central Africa Republic, Eritrea, Cameroon, and Madagascar and allow the FCDO to respond to both sudden onset and emerging humanitarian crises. It will also provide technical assistance, operational support and preparedness drawing on UK expertise and scientific evidence.
Mozambique Humanitarian Response Programme 2022-2027
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide lifesaving assistance to people in Mozambique affected by conflict and by climate disasters. MHRP is based on evidence of need and gaps across the humanitarian sector. It will reach 350,000 people with interventions in food security, nutrition, and protection. Additionally, MHRP will reach 100,000 people each year with prepositioning of emergency stocks to respond to climatic events.
Indo-Pacific Humanitarian Mechanism Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Indo-Pacific Humanitarian Mechanism (IPHM) will strengthen FCDO agility in preparing and responding quickly to new disasters in the Indo-Pacific. It will deliver one of the International Development Strategy’s top priorities: providing life-saving humanitarian assistance and preventing the worst forms of human suffering and the International Development White Paper’s emphasis on better preparedness in disaster response.
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 eight years [2018-2027] to provide direct benefits to 1.7 million poor and vulnerable people in Malawi [approximately 300,000 households].The programme also supports environmental and resilience outcomes through reducing deforestation directly and indirectly.
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.
Sudan Humanitarian Preparedness and Response (SHPR)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Sudan’s Humanitarian Preparedness and Response will contribute to reducing excess mortality and morbidity resulting from conflict, climate related hazards, disease outbreaks and economic shocks by: 1. Providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people facing ongoing crisis, with a focus on protection services, cash transfers and community management of acute malnutrition. 2. Preparing for and responding to sudden crises and spikes in need through country-based contingency funds. A flexible internal crisis risk facility will strengthen UK preparedness to respond to major disasters in Sudan. 3. Strengthening the effectiveness of in-country humanitarian preparedness and response. A flexible Enabling Facility will provide third-party services and technical assistance to improve gathering and analysis of data on risks and needs and early warning systems, monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and a shift to locally led interventions.
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.
Lebanon Humanitarian Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Lebanon Humanitarian Programme has three main objectives: i) address growing humanitarian needs across the country; ii) improve educational outcomes for the most vulnerable and marginalised out of school children in Lebanon; and iii) support more inclusive, sustainable, and accountable support systems for all vulnerable population groups. The LHP will provide critical and flexible humanitarian assistance to households across Lebanon, according to vulnerability rather than nationality. Recognising the need to ensure sustainability, the programme will also take a patient development approach as far as possible: providing technical assistance to support national systems and improve the efficiency of aid delivery.
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.
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.
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.
Swift, Humanitarian, Anticipatory & Responsive Pooled-fund (SHARP) - Start Fund & First Response Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will directly support FCDO’s humanitarian response priorities by providing rapid and agile life-saving support to communities affected by small and medium scale crises.
Jordan Humanitarian and Systems Strengthening (JHASS) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will support refugees and vulnerable Jordanians with life-saving and life-changing assistance that enhances their resilience, well-being, and future opportunities.? It will prioritise cash assistance and life-saving support such as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), it will protect the provision of life-changing services including education, health and humanitarian protection. Where the humanitarian and political context allows, support will extend to other social protection efforts and long-term strategies for modernising systems, capacity-building and localisation, including potential refugee returns.
Sudan – Humanitarian Emergency and Longer-term Planning (S-HELP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Humanitarian Emergency and Longer-term Planning (S-HELP) will contribute to reducing excess mortality and morbidity resulting from conflict, climate related hazards, disease outbreaks and economic shocks by the following approaches: framing the programme, maintaining and reinforcing the fundamental principles underpinning humanitarian action: an independent, needs based, approach that does not take the side of any party to the conflict and has the affected people at the centre of programme and policy priorities; continuing to support partners within the UN-led and associated response such as the Sudan Humanitarian Fund and the International Committee of the Red Cross – though this will be further refined through the Business Case design process;
Mozambique Resilience and Response
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme strengthens Mozambique’s ability to anticipate, withstand, and respond to climate and conflict shocks, reducing the country’s acute vulnerability and associated risks to UK development, commercial, and security interests. It delivers this through three complementary pillars: technical partnerships to mobilise climate finance and address conflict drivers; resilience-building investments supporting the UK’s shift from donor to investor; and targeted humanitarian assistance that enables a more effective, locally led crisis response.
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