Aid by Sector
Mozambique Demographic Transition - Waala - Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute to a more favourable enabling environment for the demographic transition in Mozambique, through coordinated action with others. The FCDO will use programming, evidence and diplomacy to influence decision-makers to increase investments towards cost-effective interventions that will accelerate changes in the population structure. These interventions will help young people to fulfil their potential by preventing unintended pregnancies and improving the literacy and numeracy skills among girls. The Government’s systems will be strengthened to include population issues in planning and budgeting. Over 130,000 unintended pregnancies will be averted resulting in 427,000 users of modern contraceptives. These investments should help to offset deteriorating human capital outcomes because of COVID-19.
LAFIYA -UK Support for Health in Nigeria
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To save lives, reduce suffering and improve economic prospects for the poorest and most vulnerable in Nigeria through: i. Encouraging Government of Nigeria to increase resources invested in health (through advocacy, community accountability; and data to inform government prioritisation using a “delivery” approach, as used successfully in Pakistan) ii. Improving effectiveness and efficiency of public and private basic health services (through innovative financing mechanisms, strengthening health systems and working with private sector to deliver affordable health services for the poorest populations) iii. Reducing total fertility rate (through addressing social norms, demographic impact analysis, and support to family planning commodities and services).
Better Health in Bangladesh (BHB) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To deliver more and higher quality services and better health now and in the long term. It will prevent over 2,800 women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, safely deliver 69,500 babies, provide 1 million users with modern family planning, screen over 900,000 women for cervical cancer, and provide 1.7 million young children and 300,000 pregnant women with essential nutritional care.
Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health Care In Ethiopia
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the functionality of primary health care units, reducing health inequalities, and increasing domestic financing for health to sustain and accelerate the pace of improvement in adolescent, maternal and child health in Ethiopia. This will be achieved through the Sustainable Development Goals Performance Fund, which will provide essential medicines, and improve the readiness of primary health care units and skills of primary health care staff to provide quality health services. The programme will also provide technical assistance for effective implementation of the National Health Financing Strategy to increase domestic financing for health, refine and scale-up the Ethiopian Health Insurance systems, and to develop and implement a Public Private Partnership Strategy to improve health outcomes.
Ghana Partnerships Beyond Aid Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve governance and accountability in Education, Health and Social Protection sectors and contribute to policy and research.
Disability Capacity Building Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote the rights of people with disabilities in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by supporting the delivery of small grants, training and partnership building between UN agencies, governments, private sector and disabled persons organisations.
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
Delivering Accelerated Family Planning in Pakistan (DAFPAK)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase access in Pakistan to qualtiy family planning information and services by those who would like to use it, particualrly underserved groups such as rural women. It will directly contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being, as well as to the FP2020 target of reaching additional users of family planning.
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.
Reducing high fertility rates and Improving SExual reproductive health outcomes in Uganda (RISE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Government of Uganda in the implementation of the Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan in order to accelerate the uptake of contraception and reduce the negative health, social and economic consequences of high fertility rates
Sudan Free of Female Genital Mutilation Phase 2 (SFFGM2)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To decrease the prevalence of Female Genital Cutting in Sudan and open space for wider programme on gender equality, supoorting SDG5. The programme will change social norms in target communities and at scale, support an improved legal environment, strengthen systems combatting FGM and other harmful practices, and catalyse a wider response to gender equality in Sudan. Primary beneficiaries will be girls and women in target communities, locations and states in Sudan.
Disability Inclusive Development Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will deliver a set of interventions to support people with disabilities in a number of developing countries. The programme will deliver tangible outcomes for people with disabilities including access to education, jobs, healthcare and reduced stigma and discrimination and encourage global actors to prioritise the issue. The programme will also test innovative approaches to disability inclusion and generate high quality research to fill gaps and discover what works in this under-resourced area. A lack of attention and funding has severely limited evidence of what works to deliver inclusion in international development for approximately 800 million people with disabilities in developing countries. Interventions that work will be scaled up, widening their reach, and new learning and evidence shared across the global development community and national governments.
UK Support to Palestinian Refugees(UKSPR) 2022-2025
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 5.6 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
FP2030 - The Global Family Planning Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
FP2030 will enable more women and girls everywhere to make informed, voluntary decisions about their contraceptive use by - - Securing and monitoring commitments to FP and supporting their implementation (eg through technical assistance) by countries and other stakeholders, including civil society, academic, multilateral, donor, and private sector organisations. - Enabling the sector to build more integrated and resilient FP systems, enabling better laws, policies, financing and service provision. - Building a broader base of support for FP, through global, regional and national advocacy, and FP2030’s power to convene and drive alignment.
Grassroots Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will provide capacity building to grassroots women’s rights organisations, with a focus on safe abortion. In line with FCDO's priorities, this programme will help strengthen civil society in developing countries by supporting gender equality, women and girls’ empowerment and foster human rights, and particularly sexual and reproductive rights.
Global Financing Facility - Phase 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable innovative and efficient financing of family planning and broader sexual and reproductive health; increasing private sector and domestic resource allocations in countries, focussing initially in Nigeria and Mozambique and mainly to increased access to quality, comprehensive family planning and women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in at least 3 countries. The lessons learnt from it will help many more countries to increase financing for these services in the longer term.
Supporting Afghanistan's Basic Services
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The proposed programme will work concurrently with the Afghanistan humanitarian response to deliver immediately required essential services. With a particular focus on women and girls, it will support citizen access to health, education and livelihoods services to meet their daily needs. -To support delivery of education services by sustaining and expanding access to primary education and providing education opportunities for adolescent girls currently out of school. - To sustain access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services and increase availability of community-based health interventions. - To increase the capacity of Afghans to meet their basic daily needs and, where possible, increase resilience to shocks. The programme will deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals 1-6 as well as the International Development Strategy.
Partnership in Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) is the world’s largest alliance with over 1,000 members in over 192 countries focused on improving the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents. FCDO is co funding the PMNCH It contributes to the delivery of the Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescent health (the Global Strategy). It does so through its new Strategy 2021-2025 which will contribute to reducing preventable maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality, ensuring progress on financing and equitable access to comprehensive Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights , and advancing the health and well-being of adolescents. PMNCH’s does so by its targeted advocacy, supported by knowledge synthesis that uses the latest evidence and works through partner engagement to strengthen multi-stakeholder national platforms, which campaign to build political commitment and mobilize communities.
Essential Services for Maternal and Child Health [Services Essentiels de Santé Maternelle et Infantile en RDC (SEMI)]
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support essential maternal, child and infant health services to end preventable deaths in one of the poorest provinces in DRC and strengthen the health system at national and provincial level.
Supporting the Africa-led Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This second phase will continue to work with others to support a movement within countries and globally to raise awareness and understanding of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and build support for efforts to end the practice
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