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RELIEF 2: Refugees, Education, Learning, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship for the Future
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Since 2017, the RELIEF Centre has worked with citizens, NGOs, and other stakeholders to deliver a programme of research and action towards social inclusion, sustainability and better quality of life for communities in Lebanon. During this time, however, Lebanon experienced a number of radical changes and tragedies: destabilisation of government following the 2019 political protests; the horrendous blast in the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020; an economic collapse and currency devaluation; widespread failure of public services and infrastructure; and a series of Covid-related lockdowns that have exerted further pressure on the economy. In this context of compounded crises, RELIEF's work proceeds from the view that future recovery in Lebanon must follow principles of inclusive growth and prosperity, whereby the starting point and primary focus is not aggregate GDP-growth but the things that people need for better quality of life -secure livelihoods, clean and affordable services, good education, and safe, healthy and inclusive environments. In the Lebanese context of economic and political turmoil, however, 'bottom-up' initiatives are essential for developing solutions. RELIEF's work thus focuses on the sustained development of capabilities that can help citizens and communities acquire skills and organise into communities of practice that address emergent challenges. Over the next 5 years, the second phase of the RELIEF Centre (RELIEF II) will focus on strengthening existing capabilities for citizen-led research, action, and transformation. COVID-19
Queer/feminist understandings of political violence: Leveraging activist connections, experiences and knowledges
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Aims/objectives: The project aims to promote diversity, inclusion and equitable engagements between queer/feminist activists and academics in Brazil/the UK with lived experiences and knowledge of political violence. The key objectives are to a) facilitate knowledge exchange and networking between queer/feminist early career researchers (ECRs) in the UK/Brazil working on political violence, b) catalyse new understandings/frameworks for the study of political violence drawing from Brazilian queer/feminist activist perspectives, and c) leverage new activist/academic insights to promote learning/connection between queer/feminist research/activist communities in the UK/Brazil, using such insights to both co-create/design practical knowledge solutions/strategies to support queer/feminist activists resisting political violence, and generate future funding. Applications/benefits: The new queer/feminist insights generated by this project will provide a more sophisticated understanding of political violence that explore its intersectional impacts/effects and prioritise the voices/experiences of those marginalised in mainstream discussions, thus benefitting interdisciplinary research communities. Blending rigorous academic inquiry with real-world applications of queer/feminist knowledges, the insights can be applied to make sense of lived experiences of political violence in Brazil. The project will benefit queer/feminist ECRs in the UK/Brazil by enabling them to identify common interests, develop new ideas for collaborative future research, and foster innovative discussions on political violence that enhance the personal/professional experiences of ECRs in both contexts. The knowledge generated will also benefit Brazilian queer/feminist activists by connecting them to academic understandings/networks from the UK, strengthening/lending legitimacy/visibility to ongoing strategies/practices of resistance/protection/care. Benefits will be especially pertinent in locations such as João Pessoa, which often falls outside LGBTQ+ and gender inclusion initiatives taking place in larger urban centres. Promoting the inclusion, rights and welfare of women/LGBTQ+ people in Brazil, the project will also benefit broader socio-economic development, in line with the OECD's recognition that inclusion is key to this challenge.
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.
Democratic Resilience Platform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide a platform to enable programmes to be developed to improve the governance and democracy of FCDO priority countries.
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.
Empowering Palestinian Institutions and Civil Society in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - EPICS OPTs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
EPICS aims to improve the viability, legitimacy and inclusion of governance and service delivery, to protect and support civic space, and to empower women, in the OPTs. It will provide technical assistance to PA institutions across governance sectors, with a particular focus on financial viability and provision of essential services, in order to protect the fiscal viability and legitimacy of the PA in a declining context. EPICS will protect and support Palestinian civic space by supporting CSOs to hold the PA and other local duty bearers to account for governance and service delivery. EPICS will strengthen women’s empowerment, primarily through supporting coalition building among local and grassroots organisations. Through improving PA viability and legitimacy, it will help reduce the drivers of instability and extremism.
Programme to support accountability and inclusion (Programme d'Appui à la Redevabilité et l'Inclusion) (PARI)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to increase the transparency, accountability and effectiveness of governance institutions at central level and in selected provinces to deliver better pro-poor services and support democracy and lasting stability in DRC.
Open Society Enabling Fund (OSEF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Open Societies Enabling Fund is aimed at supporting and bolstering active contributions of civil society groups in defending Indonesia’s open society with the particular context of 2024 national and local elections amidst the trend of shrinking civic space, increased prosecution of human rights defenders, and further entrenchment of minority rights.
Commonwealth Veteran's Welfare Programme for ODA Eligible Countries
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide commonwealth veterans and their widows/widowers from ODA eligible countries, who worked for British Armed Forces before their countries gained independence, now living in poverty, with two meals a day through a 5 year cash transfer programme.
Ghana Governance Programme (GGP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ghana Governance Programme (GGP) will promote an effective, transparent, and accountable governance system that protects civil and political rights. It will achieve this by supporting Election Management Bodies, engaging with political parties, promoting effective citizens engagement and supporting civil society to observe the elections to promote non-violent and credible elections in 2024 and 2024. The programme will also drive organised civil society demand for good governance by promoting transparency and accountability through effective citizen engagement to influence a pro-poor development agenda and drive demand for structural reforms. Additionally, it will support innovative solutions to build state capacity to address key systemic weaknesses to enhance transparency and accountability and reduce corruption and advance human rights priorities in Ghana using a flexible and opportunistic approach to respond to weaknesses in areas such as media freedom or minority rights.
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.
Zambia Democratic Governance Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the deepening and consolidation of democracy in Zambia in order to build resilience and stabiltiy, and enable development and reform
Kenya Anti-corruption Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme seeks to strengthen accountability through partnership and evidence to prevent corruption in the public and private sector. It seeks to enhance demand-driven and bottom-up engagement in the policy making and oversight in public service delivery including developing tools and levers that can lead to improved ease of doing business and strengthen frameworks on asset recovery from proceeds of crime domestically and overseas.
International Programme Fund (IPF) Niamey FY2024-25
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The first project aims to To strengthen the skills of 50 women with motor disabilities in Niamey in digital technology through access to ICTs, training in smartphone use and digital marketing. To provide training on income-generating activities and promote integration into relevant value chains, promoting female entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion. The second project, while having a principal focus on socioeconomic empowerment of rural women, does so via the promotion of climate-smart irrigated agriculture covering about 2 hectares of land, and providing l training on the processing of agricultural production as well as the marketing of said production, while promoting women's rights locally. Lastly, the third project promotes transparency and social inclusion in the extractive sector, by supporting qualified civil society (EITI) in raising awareness and training relevant actors and local authorities on inclusive and locally-led development derived form extractives.
UK Embassy Fund (Small Projects) - Philippines
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
ODA fund to support Post's small projects (former International Programme projects) and work on Open Societies, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Philippines.
Rights, Inclusion, Voice and Agency Nepal (RIVA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The RIVA programme will empower women, girls, and excluded groups in Nepal to understand and claim their Rights individually and collectively, participate in Inclusive policy-making and implementation, and have a stronger Voice and Agency at both national and local levels to advance Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI).
Wajibika Programme in Tanzania
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The vision for the Wajibika programme is that it uses a strategic and flexible mix of ODA funding and coordinated diplomatic influencing to help Tanzania move further in the direction of a more "Open Society." Promoting an open societies agenda in Tanzania will contribute to an improved policy environment for reform e.g. on the business environment and education, both which are top UK priorities for Tanzania - and facilitate more open Tanzanian relationships with key partners, including the UK. The Wabijika Programme in Tanzania will be a flagship Open Societies programme for FCDO Tanzania. It will strengthen media and civil society, promote more inclusive politics and improve accountability, delivering HMG's Force for good.
Partnership for Agile Governance and Climate Engagement (PACE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The PACE is designed to support more accountable and inclusive institutions to respond to Nigeria’s governance and climate change challenges. This is a governance programme, seeking to address the governance challenges that undermine development and perpetuate social exclusion in Nigeria.
British Embassy Bilateral Programme Fund 2024-2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme is strategically aligned with the British Embassy’s Country Business Plan objectives, the International Development Strategy, the Minister of Development’s priorities, relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our programme also aligns with BRRIT’s goals, and Post’s own analysis, local priorities, UK objectives, and international standards. The programme is focused on three core objectives: 1. Enhancing Resilience to Climate Change 2. Empowering Women and Girls – especially those in earthquake-affected areas 3. Fostering Media Freedom Each project under this programme will directly contribute to sustainable development, gender equality and democratic governance. Total Allocation under the British Embassy Bilateral Programme Fund is £150,000, which is distributed equally under each thematic field.
Indo-Pacific Regional Governance Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Indo-Pacific Governance Programme will support the foundations on which FCDO can deliver the UK objectives in the Indo-Pacific by establishing partnerships for ‘progressive governance’ that enable broader UK priorities in the region. Support will be based on a combination of a) strategic programming b) deep context analysis and learning, and c) increased capacity to deliver advice and support to governance actors in the region. The programme will build on a base of successful projects and will test a long-term approach for strategic engagement on governance in the region.
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