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Partnership for Learning for All in Nigerian Education - PLANE
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
PLANE programme will support achievement of the UK Aid Strategy’s strategic objectives, particularly in relation to tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable. The programme will also work to strengthen resilience and response to crises, support prosperity in Nigeria and strengthen governance in the education sector. The Programme will benefit up to 2 million children by supporting the Government of Nigeria (GoN) in selected states and non-state partners to improve teaching, school quality, education management and efficient delivery of education. This brings together a short term focus on improving the life chances of Nigeria’s most vulnerable children with medium term goals to support recovery and stability and longer term development goals to improve the overall education system
UK-INDIA Partnership on National Investment and Infrastructure Fund -Green Growth Equity Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The NIIF sub-fund will use UK government finance to catalyse private sector investments from global UK investors, through the City of London to infrastructure projects in India. To help India address a key constraint to inclusive growth by boosting investment into infrastructure - which will lead to growth, job creation and poverty reduction in India. The fund is fully attributed to climate change mitigation - ie low carbon development, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The fund will primarily invest in sectors like Renewable Energy, Clean Transportation, Water Treatment, and Waste Management. The success of this intervention will lead to follow on private investment that will have a transformational impact on India's economic development.
Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To strengthen policies and programming for education in conflict and protracted crisis. This programme will improve learning outcomes of the most marginalised children. It responds to a demand for rigorous, policy-relevant research in six focal countries on "what works" to deliver education in these contexts. The UK will work with partners to disseminate evidence and promote uptake, and provide technical expertise and operational support to FCDO country offices. It is expected that initial technical call-down support for governments will have a focus on Covid-19. This programme will have a focus on equity, and directly supports the manifesto commitment on girls' education,
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
Core Funding to the World Health Organisation WHO 2020-2024
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide core funding to the World Health Organisation for its 13th General Programme of Work - GPW13- which aims to provide Universal Health Coverage to 1 billion more people, to protect 1 billion more people from health emergencies and to enable 1 billion more people to live healthier lives; thereby achieving SDG3 – better health for all.
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.
Rohingya Response and National Resilience Programme (RRNRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve protection and quality of humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya population living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, so that they can live full and meaningful lives. This to be done peacefully living alongside host communities, for whom the impacts of the crisis need to be reduced and development opportunities provided. The programme marks a shift in FCDO’s (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) response to the crisis by providing longer term, predictable support to address the needs of both refugees and host communities. Whilst the focus will be on sustaining and improving the humanitarian operation through provision of quality basic services, there will be a specific focus on stimulating the economy, rehabilitating the environment, and promoting stability for both populations’ benefit. The programme aim to support COVID-19 and early emergency recovery support for national resilience by providing support to the national COVID-19 and disaster response.
Learning and Inclusion For Transformation (LIFT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Improved learning outcomes and more equitable access to primary and girls in school and out of school including girls with disability in Rwanda
Global Innovation Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To identify and support innovative solutions to development challenges which show proven, cost effective impacts that vastly exceed current practice.
Somalia Security and Justice Programme II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Somalia Security and Justice Programme aims to promote more affordable, accountable, able and acceptable policing and justice systems in targeted areas that provide a visible security presence and facilitate the peaceful resolution of disputes with lessons from these informing the development of the federal architecture
International Finance Facility for Immunisation
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Reduce vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in poor countries in a sustainable way using innovative financing approach
Public Resource Management in Somalia - Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To build on progress achieved in PREMIS I by improving the capacity of Somalia’s new federal system of government by establishing and improving systems for tax, spend and civil service management at all levels including Public finance management , Public administration and work on decentralisation federalism.
Somalia Monitoring Programme Phase 3
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Somalia Monitoring Programme Phase 3 aims to generate and promote use of better evidence and statistics to define, deliver and adjust FCDO programmes in Somalia. It is designed to ensure that British Embassy Mogadishu (BEM), Somali officials and the international community have access to the evidence and statistics needed to ensure programmes and policies are targeted, effective and adaptive; and that risks are identified and managed. SMP 3 involves two key components: the first is Third-Party Monitoring and Learning (TPML) of UK (FCDO) programming in the field, to ensure that our activities deliver expected outcomes, and Campaign Goals in the Somalia Country Plan. The second is support to the Somali National Statistics System to collect, analyse, and use key data enabling the authorities to better target policies and systems that deliver development outcomes.
UK investment in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 2023-2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To tackle the immediate impact of the three most deadly infectious diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – and put the international community on the right track to end the three diseases as epidemics by 2030.
Evidence for Development
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence for Development (E4D) programme aims to strengthen the data and evidence ecosystem in Nepal. It focuses on federal, provincial, local government and non-government actors to promote use of data and evidence for more effective and efficient programmes and policies and longer-term strategic portfolio design and management. It also aims to foster a culture of learning in the British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK), among other Development Partners and in the Governments of Nepal.
Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme (SUED)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
FCDO is supporting emerging urban centres in Kenya to put in place sustainable urban economic plans; improve the investment climate and draw in investment for key climate-resilient infrastructure and value chain projects. This will include integrating digital technologies to build ‘smart’ towns/cities that improve the quality and performance of urban services and enable a better quality of life.
Programme d’Appui pour la Consolidation de la Stabilité en RDC (PACS-RDC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will support our objective to build peace in eastern DRC. It will focus on the three provinces in eastern DRC (Ituri, North and South Kivus) worst affected by violent conflict leveraging our comparative advantage by deploying HMG expertise from Kinshasa, Goma, London and New York to influence the DRC government, MONUSCO and other donors. The Concept Note includes a multi-donor stabilisation programming alongside targeted UK bilateral support on DDR, conflict prevention and conflict sensitivity.
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).
M4D - Mobile for Development Strategic Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To work jointly with the industry group representing mobile phone operators worldwide, the GSMA, and its subsidiary Mobile for Development, to identify and support the development and use of new, innovative ways in which mobile phone technologies and mobile network infrastructure can be used to improve the reach, delivery and affordability of life-enhancing services to poor people in Africa and Asia. As a result of this work some 14 million poor people are expected to benefit from improved access to life enhancing services by 2020.
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities
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