Aid by Sector
Strengthening Health through Affordable Prices and Efficiency (SHAPE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate access to essential commodities, improve health outcomes and achieve greater value for money for priority health areas including HIV, TB, malaria, family planning, and vaccines. This is achieved by making health commodity markets work better to bring more low-cost, high-quality manufacturers into markets and deliver greater competition, lower prices, faster rollout of new medicines, increased supply security, clearer demand visibility and enhanced incentives for innovation.
The Reproductive Health Supplies Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To meet the contraceptive needs of over 20 million women per year; to reduce unintended pregnancies and maternal deaths; to improve maternal, newborn and child health, and to contribute to universal health coverage. This will be achieved by funding activities to improve the availability, quality, supply and access to key reproductive health commodities, including for those in hard to reach areas. This will support women's rights and the 2030 agenda.
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.
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.
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.
Women's Integrated Sexual Health
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. It will enable women in target countries to safely plan their pregnancies and improve their sexual and reproductive health. It will progress towards Universal Reproductive Health and Rights [SDGs 3.7 and 5.6]. It will support a range of services including family planning, education and behaviour change, prevention of unsafe abortion and other integrated sexual and reproductive health services. By 2020, the programme aims to have supported an additional 4.1m family planning users. It will avert up to 9.4m unsafe abortions and 8.9m unintended pregnancies, and provide 23m couple years of family planning protection.
Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) Platform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To drive inclusive growth through a combination of grants and development capital investments that build financial markets and institutions. The programme delivers ambitious multi-country activities and focused, local interventions which seek to strengthen capital markets, promote financial innovation, and help Africa finance a greener future.
Tsogolo Langa Family Planning Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This targeted investment programme will expand DFID’s current support for family planning service delivery via quality national third party provider(s) – with a view to increasingly meeting needs of youth and younger couples.
Delivering sustainable and equitable increases in family planning in Kenya
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To acheive additional family planning results in Kenya as per DFID's Family Planning 2020 commitments.
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).
International Development Support Project
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To engage with China on developmental issues on international poverty reduction in order to develop a shared agenda on innovative activities that expose aid practitioners to new and effective approaches to international development, including addressing demand from other developing countries for lessons from China's development experience.
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.
Demographic Transition in Iraq Programme (DTIP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Supporting demographic transition has a multi-faceted impact that can help achieve FCDO NSC objectives Maternal health & infant mortality Gender empowerment & girls education Poverty and youth employment Fiscal space Political stability, inclusion, and participation Environmental impact Sustainability dividend A more stable social contract
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.
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.
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
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