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Risk Pools Programme (RPP)
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.
Disaster Risk Insurance
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the resilience of the private sector in poor countries to natural disasters by improving access to insurance products. By supporting the development of a market for private sector disaster risk insurance in developing countries, the project will sustainably help strengthen resilience, mitigate the effects of climate change and supporting economic development through private sector growth.
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
CLARE - CLimate And REsilience Framework Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CLARE is a flagship research programme on climate adaptation and resilience, funded mostly (about 90%) by UK Aid through the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and co-funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. CLARE is bridging critical gaps between science and action by championing Southern leadership to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards. Through long-term commitments and partnerships worldwide, and needs-driven, action-focused research, CLARE links up short-and long-term issues, enabling long-term, sustainable, and fair economic and social development in a changing climate whilst supporting action to reduce impacts now and providing a better understanding of climate risks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UK Aid Match II Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the achievement of the Global Goals through funding UK-based civil society organisations to deliver projects that assist in ending extreme poverty and building a better world by 2030. The programme will also provide opportunities for the UK public to engage in international development issues and have a say in how a portion of the aid budget is spent.
Building Refugee Resilience and Inclusion in Turkey
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will improve the economic livelihoods of refugees and host communities in Turkey through skills training, access to finance and the private sector. It will also providing basic humanitarian needs, such as access to health and educational opportunities, particularly for women and girls and refugees with disabilities, as well as provide a platform for information sharing with other actors in Turkey. While strengthening the resilience of refugees in Turkey, the programme will also prepare them for longer-term voluntary return to Syria and other home countries, preventing onward migration to Europe. The programme is delivered in Turkey, a DAC-recipient country via official agencies (UN, World Bank and Red Cross) with the primary objective of promoting the economic resilience and integration, and wellbeing, of refugees and host communities in Turkey. The programme is delivered via a project-type modality, including grants and a multi-donor trust fund.
Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To protect poor and vulnerable people, save lives and help developing countries to get back on their feet more quickly after a disaster by working with governments to strengthen planning, embed early action, and use “risk financing” tools like insurance and contingent credit to finance more cost-effective, rapid and reliable response to emergencies. It aims to empower governments to build resilience to natural disasters and climate change, and take ownership of their risks, with more assistance delivered through pre-financed government-led systems. Funded by the UK Government Prosperity Fund until April 2021.
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.
Science for Emergencies Centre of Expertise (SECE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Science for Emergencies Centre of Expertise (SECE) will strengthen FCDO’s access to science, evidence and expertise in the immediate response to rapid onset emergencies and emerging priorities. This will improve FCDO’s ability to prepare for and respond to such emergencies, mitigating their impact. SECE will ensure FCDO’s response to rapid-onset crises and emerging priorities is based on sound scientific knowledge, evidence and expertise, and enable this evidence and expertise to be shared with all those responding. It will have particular benefits for LMICs, where it will reduce suffering and promote welfare in regions most affected by crises.
Investing in the humanitarian capability of the IFRC and the BRC to enable Early Action in humanitarian crises
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This project provides core support to the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and the British Red Cross (BRC). This project will increase the capacity and accountability of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement - the worlds largest humanitarian network, to prioritise assistance to people in greatest need in humanitarian crises, to strengthen the network's ability to be more effective and enhance the National Societies’ ability to deliver. To enable IFRC and BRC to deliver against their core institutional strategies.
Pioneering a Holistic approach to Energy and Nature-based Options in MENA for Long-term stability - PHENOMENAL
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To tackle water scarcity, build adaptation and resilience and scale up International Climate Finance in the Middle East and North Africa.
Water Resource Accountability in Pakistan (WRAP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve water governance and management issues in Pakistan to be able to adapt to changing climate while ensuring environmental sustainability, with a focus on collaboration and engagement with provinces, research and media engagement.
Global Risk Financing Programme [GRiF]
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To save lives and reduce the impacts of shocks, like droughts, hurricanes and floods through enabling earlier and more effective response and faster recovery. It provides finance to support governments and humanitarian agencies to use risk financing instruments, like insurance and contingent credit, to access more rapid finance in emergencies, and to strengthen preparedness of local systems for disaster response and recovery. It will focus on disasters, but will develop over time to cover a wider range of risks, including famine.
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.
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.
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