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BBC World Service
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Increasing the provision of, and access to, impartial news and information that responds to audience needs in English and local languages in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, South America & Central America
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Accountability in Tanzania Programme - Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To empower Tanzanian citizens and strengthen civil society by providing grants and capacity building support to selected civil society organisations, to increase the accountability and responsiveness of government. This contributes towards the Millenium Development Goals by ensuring Tanzanians are increasingly able to exercise their rights as citizens.
Evidence for Development
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Government of Nepal develops and implements policies and programmes based on sound evidence leading to demonstrable poverty reduction and progress towards Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation by 2022.
Protecting Media Freedom
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The aim of the programme is to bolster and support the role of independent media globally through: a comprehensive media development intervention improving media resilience in three developing countries and increasing global learning about effective ways of supporting the media; providing a secretariat to the Media Freedom Coalition; and supporting emergency funding to journalists and media in distress in countries experiencing unforeseen or sudden major crises.
Good Governance Fund - Supporting Economic and Governance Reform in Moldova
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Through a range of partners including International Financial Institutions, multilateral organisations, private sector and CSOs, the Good Governance Fund supports a series of governance and economic reform initiatives, aimed at building stability, reducing poverty and increasing prosperity in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia and North Macedonia. This programme is comprised of a number of projects operational in Moldova, where support will focus on areas including business environment reform, addressing the skills mismatch, public administration reform and promoting inclusive and participatory governance.
Partnerships for Development
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Partnerships for Development (formerly known as GREAT for Partnership) will multiply the UK’s development impact by boosting partnerships between UK’s institutions and their counterparts in the developing world. It will leverage the skills and expertise from a range of UK institutions and supply them initially to DFID partner countries, based on tailored demand. It will initially prioritise the Extractives, Financial Accountability and Anti-Corruption sectors.
UK Aid Connect Funding Mechanism
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
UK Aid Connect is designed to create the form of civil society that DFID needs to meet its objectives and the form of civil society the future requires. By creating diverse coalitions to address complex, inter-dependent policy and practice challenges it answers a market gap widely recognised through the CSPR.
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.
Uganda - Open Society
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Uganda Open Society is a one-year, £0.25mn project that is aimed to deliver FCDO’s ambition for an open society in Uganda. It will seek to a) experiment and build influential evidence, data and learning, to understand the best ways to achieve an open society in Uganda by 2026; b) address the lack of youth engagement to ensure their participation in decision-making in democratic governance processes and increase their voice in service delivery; and c) strengthen issue-based dialogue between the targeted citizens and those in power.
Good Governance Fund (Phase 3) Eastern Neighbourhood: Supporting Governance and Economic Reform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Good Governance Fund seeks to tackle corruption, improve the business environment, make governments more responsive to citizens, enhance media and civil society freedoms, and promote overall reform.
Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme works with government and civil society at federal and state levels to reduce inefficiency and corruption in the use of Nigerian resources and therefore improve delivery of services, including for women, girls and persons with disability. It does this in partnership with other DFID programmes supporting service delivery by helping Nigerian stakeholders improve accountability for use of resources including improving processes for raising revenue, allocating resources, planning and programme implementation.
Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To counter serious and organised crime, build the investigative capacity of select partners and close the loopholes in the justice system that hinders the prosecution of cases.
Bangladesh-Collaborative, Accountable and Peaceful Politics (B-CAPP) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will protect civic space, foster political collaboration, reduce corruption, and mitigate tensions that lead to violence. Specifically, the programme will: Mobilise civil society and media coalitions to bring local issues to the attention of government and work towards policy solutions. Provide citizen groups with tools to monitor public service delivery. Improve decision-making within political parties and promote women and youth leaders. Strengthen community mediation to prevent political and social tensions becoming violent.
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