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UK contribution to the World Bank Group PROBLUE Programme to facilitate sustainable finance for healthy oceans
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
PROBLUE is the World Bank’s leading multilateral mechanism for leveraging and disbursing blue finance towards sustainable ocean sectors and activities. It is a multi-donor trust fund that supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life Below Water, and the Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. PROBLUE aims to do this by reducing the existing blue finance gap by creating the necessary enabling environment for public and private sectors to shift from unsustainable to sustainable activities.
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)
Ending the Cycle of Undernutrition in Bangladesh - Suchana [nutsen]
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Significant reduction in incidence of stunting amongst children under two years of age in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts of Sylhet division in Bangladesh and catalyse support across government and other stakeholders for a coordinated, multi-sectoral approach to undernutrition at the national level.
Excluded People's Rights in Bangladesh
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote rights and equality for 1.64 million people in Bangladesh who are at the highest risk of being excluded, including poor women and girls, people with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities, ‘Dalits’ (untouchables), children working in vulnerable situations (including modern slavery) and youth. The programme will increasingly focus on social cohesion. The partner supports a network of organisations to defend and enhance poor, minorities and other marginalised people’s rights and enabling them to access to assets, public services (e.g. health, education) and economic opportunities. The programme also works with local level service providers to help them meet their responsibilities and assist communities to monitor their performance. Where opportunities arise, the programme will contribute to the development of policies and laws that uphold the rights of the poor and excluded groups in society. FCDO's flagship rights programme.
Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage Programme Phase 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This will be the UK’s second global, multi-sectoral programme to tackle child marriage and respond to its consequences. This programme will provide £18 million to deliver interventions across high prevalence countries, including fragile and conflict affected states, to prevent child marriages, lower global prevalence rates and support already married girls to have improved life outcomes. The programme will enable girls to take greater control over their lives and bodies. It will contribute to increased access to education for girls, reduced adolescent pregnancy and maternal deaths and a range of broader development outcomes. In addition, the programme will strengthen the international evidence base on what works to prevent child marriage and increase use of this evidence by a range of actors. This will in turn increase the effectiveness and efficiency of wider interventions aiming to end child marriage.
Central Asia Enterprise and Innovation Programme (EIP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Stronger, diversified and inclusive private sector business environment and reduced risks from external shocks.
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.
Bangladesh Climate Change and Environment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To address the effects of climate change and to reduce environmental degradation in Bangladesh. The aim of the programme is to systematically improve expertise, implement innovative approaches to adaptation and environmental management, and facilitate the scale-up of proven approaches. The programme will focus explicitly on building the resilience of poor and vulnerable communities and groups, including women and children. It will support political leadership by engaging youth and civil society to build the case for climate action, and by fostering future generations of Bangladeshi climate experts.
Kenya Elections Support Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To Improve democratic governance and stability, including increasing women’s political representation, which will provide an enabling environment for Kenya’s prosperity, development and poverty reduction. This programme seeks to promote an enabling environment for women political participation through legal, policy and capacity building interventions.
Nepal Local Infrastructure Support Programme (LISP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Local Infrastructure Support Programme will improve Nepal’s new local and provincial governments’ delivery of the local infrastructure services demanded by rural citizens to create jobs and drive economic development. LISP will do this by providing technical assistance and performance-based capital funding to improve the delivery and resilience of local infrastructure. It will focus on increasing the legitimacy and accountability of local government to their citizens. LISP will directly support the use of the systems and capacity developed by the sister Provincial and Local Government Support Programme.
Peacebuilding Opportunities Fund (POF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The POF will provide a strong focus on sub-national peacebuilding, while also allowing for priority activities at the national level. At all levels emphasis will be placed on identifying and championing indigenous efforts and institutions that show signs of successfully managing conflicts and promoting civic attitudes and practices (i.e. peacebuilding ‘opportunities’). Selections will be based on fine-grained analysis and grounded in a robust, bottom-up, prioritisation process..
Strengthening Accountability and Anti-corruption Programme (SAACP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will address critical governance barriers and drivers of conflict such a corruption, political marginalisation and exclusion. We will reduce corruption by tackling illicit financial flows, and strengthening asset recovery. We will strengthen political representation at the local level, facilitating voice and accountability with youth, women and excluded groups. We will continue to support local governments to deliver core services and be accountable to the citizens they serve, including the poorest and most marginalised.
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
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.
Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2013 – improving the lives of women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Targeted women and girls benefit from improvements in one or more of the following five areas: health, education, agriculture/trade, leadership and advocacy for women's rights and violence against women and girls.
African Union Conflict and Governance Support Programme (AUCG)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
AUCG will work to strengthen the conflict prevention, conflict management and governance capabilities of the African Union (AU). In doing so, it will help tackle emerging threats to the UK and Africa earlier and before they result in violent conflict. Emphasis will be put on strengthening the AU’s early warning, analysis and early response capacity and capability, including the AU’s ability to effectively mediate in situations before or during conflict. AUCG will also support the AU’s ability to effectively monitor elections across the African continent, helping to promote open societies and create a more democratic world, and will increase women’s meaningful participation in political and peace processes.
Good Governance Fund: Supporting Economic and Governance Reform in Armenia
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.
Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To work with global and British business to provide 300,000 women with improved access to better jobs in supply chains where they work in agriculture, manufacturing or other global sectors. The programme will work with business and their suppliers to address barriers to women such as discrimination, violence in the workplace and unpaid care, to help women move into higher paying roles in farms, factories and distribution networks. The programme will also demonstrate the UK's response to the UN High Level Panel (HLP) recommendations by improving results for women through our economic development programmes and participating in new partnerships with HLP members to implement the report.
Strengthening public financial management and revenue collection in Rwanda.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve Local Government Public Financial Management, audit and domestic revenue generation in Rwanda. Stronger public financial management will directly support poverty reduction by increasing economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the use of public resources. Increased domestic revenue collection will reduce Rwanda's dependence on aid and will support sustainable growth.
Better Aid in Conflict (BAC): South Sudan
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide a Resource Centre that will assist in ensuring that Donors and Implementing partners are able to deliver more effective and more conflict sensitive programmes which will contribute towards the peace building process in South Sudan.
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