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Myanmar Humanitarian Aid Programme (MHAP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MHAP will provide multi sector humanitarian support to the vulnerable and displaced people in Myanmar, and build the leadership and capability of Myanmar humanitarian organizations.
M4H - Mobile for Humanitarian: Exploring the use of mobile technology to provide life-enhancing services during humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Mobile for Humanitarian programme will work with the mobile industry and humanitarian organisations to develop cost effective, scale-able solutions and business models for delivering a range of services to improve disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and recovery. This will include access to information and connectivity, financial services, access to water, sanitation and energy services, digital identity solutions and improving the effectiveness of delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid.
Supporting Moldova's Resilience
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will support the resilience of Moldova, particularly its governance and economic reforms, including in the energy sector. This programme supports wider efforts to help deliver on that commitment and helps the Moldovan economy and society to be more resilient to the effects of crisis and the shock caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Integrated Review Refresh committed to stepping up our engagement with Moldova to boost its prosperity, security and resilience to hostile state actors. These aims are also aligned with the direction of the Eastern Neighbourhood NSIG strategy, with objectives on reform. This is an opportunity for the UK to provide key support towards longer term resilience building. The programme aims to assist the Moldovan economy and society become more resilient to future shocks and malign influence. This could be seen through increased opportunities for formal employment, improved human capital and increased resilience to climate change and crisis.
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.
Kenya Devolution Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme aims to strengthen the effectiveness of Kenya's devolution. It will support county governments to better plan, deliver and monitor the delivery of public services in key sectors including agriculture, climate change, education, health, water and urban services.
Nepal Health Sector Programme III
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the health of women, children, the poor and socially excluded in Nepal, including by restoring health services in areas affected by the 2015 earthquake, and improving the quality and governance of health services nationwide.
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.
Global Security Rapid Analysis
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To produce research analysis and best practice guidance that will help to inform global policy on how development programming and policy can have the greatest impact on stability and security overseas.
Building Resilience in Ethiopia (BRE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To build Ethiopia’s resilience to shocks by seeking to support the Government of Ethiopia to lead an effective and accountable humanitarian response system. It will have four key strands: Providing technical assistance to the Government of Ethiopia to lead and deliver an effective and accountable humanitarian response , delivering food and cash to people in humanitarian need in the most effective way, respond to emergency humanitarian needs in the most effective way and monitoring, evaluation and learning to strengthen humanitarian delivery in Ethiopia.
Climate Smart Development for Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This will help Nepal to cope with impacts of climate change (CC) and promote clean development. It will provide strategic support to the Govt of Nepal to design and implement CC policies, to integrate resilience throughout government planning. This will:Improve resilience of 700,000 poor & vulnerable people (especially women) to floods, landslides, droughts in most remote districts;Improve resilience of businesses in 5 growing urban centres & 3 river basins through investments in urban planning, large scale irrigation systems & flood management;Facilitate connection of over 25,000 households to new micro-hydro power installations; connect over 70,000 homes to solar power & install RET in more than 200 schools/health clinics;Develop industry standard for ‘clean’ brick production and enable over half of the brick kilns (at least 400) to adopt more efficient technologies;Improve design of future CC programming & beyond through generation of world class 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.
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.
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.
Strengthening disaster resilience in Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This project will strengthen disaster resilience in Nepal, particularly to earthquakes, by working with urban centres to build and plan more safely; supporting the strengthening of critical public infrastructure to earthquakes; working to strengthen national capacity to respond to crises and ensure that the international community is prepared; and ensuring that the UK is able to support a humanitarian response should a crises hit.
Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience in South Sudan (HARISS) 2015 - 2024
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
HARISS aims to save lives, avert suffering, maintain dignity, and reinforce coping capacities for people affected by conflict, disasters, and shocks in South Sudan. It is a large-scale, multi-sector and multi-year humanitarian programme providing humanitarian assistance and resilience building activities (although these reduced from 2022). HARISS focuses on: • Life-saving humanitarian assistance • Humanitarian protection for the most vulnerable • Resilience-building • Support to the enabling environment
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.
Start Fund III, A global response mechanism for providing life-saving humanitarian assistance through NGOs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support to the Start Fund - an NGO led multi-donor humanitarian response mechanism that delivers humanitarian assistance, primarily for underfunded and small to medium scale emergencies.
Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP Phase 3)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability by providing 133,000 of the poorest households (approximately 798,000 people) in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands with cash transfers and up to an additional 750,000 households (approximately 4,500,000 people) during drought emergencies. In addition, this final phase of the programme will ensure a transition of the Hunger Safety Net Programme to full Government of Kenya ownership and financing to guarantee the sustainability of the programme after a UK exit. The programme aims to graduate targeted HSNP households out of poverty and improve the nutrition status of pregnant mothers and children below 1,000 days of age.
CLARE - CLimate And REsilience Framework Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CLARE is a framework research programme to develop new, more demand responsive evidence, innovation and capacity to enable developing country governments and communities to better address climate change challenges and opportunities and develop more effective disaster risk management and recovery. The programme will support research to improve our understanding of weather and climate systems across Africa and the likely impacts of future change. It will also support research and innovation focused on low-carbon and climate resilient technology as well as help strengthen local capacity to do and use cutting edge climate research and evidence for development.
Resilient Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Emergency Preparedness Programme (RWEPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Resilient Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Emergency Preparedness Programme (RWEPP) is a five-year programme that started in July 2021. The RWEPP aims to increase inclusive access to sustainable and resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services, and strengthen the resilience of communities to deal with climate induced disasters. The programme partners are the Gurkha Welfare Trust (GWT) and UNICEF.
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