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Technical Assistance to Health Systems in Sierra Leone
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This is a technical assistance programme which will support improvement of supply chain systems and improved assurance of the central medicine supplies, and health financing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Strengthening the Health System and Provision of Essential Services in South Sudan (SHAPES)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide a government led effective health system that will deliver improved access to quality health services across ten states and three administrative areas in South Sudan with a specific focus on reducing maternal and child mortality.
UK-SA Health Systems Strengthening Partnerships Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support to strengthen South Africa’s health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage, and drive collaboration on pandemic preparedness
Better Lives for Somali Women and Children
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To achieve UK's manifesto commitment of reducing preventable deaths, the Better Lives for Somali Women and Children will continue to respond to the health and nutrition needs of the Somali people. There will be a continued focus on delivering an essential package of health services. The programme will strengthen the Somali Health Authorities oversight of service provision, which will in turn promote local accountability and allow them increasingly to respond to the needs of their populations. This programme approach aims to support long term sustainability and state building that is part of the wider strategic agenda. There will also be a climate change mitigation component (ICF) within the programme.
Health Resilience Fund in Zimbabwe 2021-2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a resilient health system in Zimbabwe that is equipped to deliver quality sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition services.
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.
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.
Empowering Women for Better Reproductive Health Outcomes (EMPOWER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Empowering Women for Better Reproductive Health Outcomes” (EMPOWER) will contribute to (a) a reduction in preventable deaths of mothers, babies, and children, and (b) women and girls’ empowerment through choices about whether and when to have children and economic opportunities – both UK priorities. By the end of the programme, it will have averted over 2.4 million unwanted pregnancies and 3,700 maternal deaths.
Syria Humanitarian Response Programme (SHRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide timely and effective multi-sectoral humanitarian response to emerging needs and protracted displacement as agreed and set out by international partners in the Humanitarian Response Plan across whole of Syria.
Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents: Phase 3
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will continue FCDO support to the the Global Financing Facility (GFF). The GFF is a World Bank multi-donor trust fund (MDTF), launched in 2015 to achieve Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N) outcomes. The GFF currently supports 36 low and lower-middle income countries which account for 67.2% of global preventable maternal, newborn and child mortality. The GFF design puts countries in the lead and prioritises women and girls, health system strengthening and sustainability. At a time when global maternal mortality rates have stalled or even reversed and when COVID-19, economic crises, climate and conflict all threaten progress, this programme will support the most vulnerable women and children. GFF grants provide catalytic funding to improve essential health services and are delivered hand in hand with larger World Bank IDA/IBRD loans.
CHOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will build on the success of its predecessor Reproductive Health Supplies and use innovative approaches to expand access to high quality Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) products for over 21 million women and adolescents every year. The CHOICES programme will be the UK’s largest investment in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Working with governments, NGOs and the private sector, it will strengthen health systems and expand access to high quality contraceptives, abortion products, and maternal and newborn health medicines for millions of women and adolescents.
Sub-National Governance Programme -II (SNG-II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SNG-II supports improved public financial management to enhance basic service delivery for the poorest and most vulnerable populations, including women, girls, and persons with disabilities. It also aims to strengthen citizen perceptions of government performance. The programme operates across four thematic areas: Planning and Reform Budgeting and Transparency Fiscal Space Innovations Implementation spans the federal level and the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Sindh.
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.
Building a Resilient Health System to End Preventable Maternal, New-born and Child Deaths in Ethiopia
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
In line with Manifesto commitments and FCDO Ethiopia’s strategic business planning, this programme will help to prevent avoidable maternal, new born and child deaths and accelerate the fertility transition in Ethiopia by building the capacity of the health system to self-finance quality health services for all its citizens, without financial hardship by 2030. It builds upon the gains made and lessons learned from current and past health investments, moving beyond increasing access to health services by supporting efforts to . improve quality of care for better reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health (RMNCH) outcomes; . target more effectively the poorest and most vulnerable to drive health equity; •increase the health system’s capacity to respond to crises; and •reduce reliance on external actors for health financing and technical assistance as DFID prepares to exit from bilateral financial aid for health by 2025.
WISH Dividend - successor programme to WISH 205241
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase the use of family planning methods to reduce maternal deaths and prevent the use and access to unsafe abortion, including for marginalised and young women. To enable women and girls to safely plan their pregnancies and improve their sexual and reproductive health. To deliver UK commitments towards Universal Reproductive Health and Rights [SDGs 3.7 and 5.6]. To support a range of services including family planning, education and behaviour change, prevention of unsafe abortion and other integrated sexual and reproductive health services.
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