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India: Infrastructure Equity Fund - Investment in small infrastructure projects in India's poorest states
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve access to better quality transport, clean energy and basic urban services for households and businesses, by investing in equity to private sector-led infrastructure projects. This will benefit an estimated 280,000 people with improved infrastructure services.
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.
Climate Smart Jobs Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To strengthen the climate smart agribusinesses, creating jobs, support climate smart land management & services and to remove barriers that stop businesses getting deals.
Emergency Deployments Team 2 Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Humanitarian response capability to deliver Emergency Medical Teams and International Search and Rescue Teams in the event of a sudden onset disaster.
Combatting International Illicit Finance: Accelerating the 2030 Agenda
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Combatting International Illicit Finance: Accelerating the 2030 Agenda will enhance the UK’s capability to combat illicit finance (IF) through: (1) a new UK International Centre of Expertise on Illicit Finance (ICE) to improve our international understanding, preparedness and response to IF threats and vulnerabilities by drawing on UK expertise across law enforcement, HMG, academia, civil society, and the private sector; and (2) a strengthened network of UK experts in key jurisdictions and multilateral bodies to build our partners’ resilience to IF and tackle shared challenges.
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.
Evaluation Quality Assurance and Learning Service 2 - EQUALS 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will provide independent, high quality efficient and effective advice and assurance throughout the programme cycle to ensure that Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds are used for undertaking high quality monitoring, evaluation and learning that meets the evolving needs in development. Other ODA spending government departments can access it to ensure evaluations of their programmes are of a high enough quality to be published. Monitoring and evaluations can provide accountability for tax-payers money and enable learning and new evidence generation to inform current and future policy and programming across UK and other Governments. It will additionally be open to some Non ODA evaluations within FCDO for the same quality assurance and assistance.
Humanitarian Enablers Programme (HEP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will contribute to making humanitarian responses by FCDO and the international humanitarian system more effective as a core priority of the UK Government’s International Development Strategy (IDS). It will support specialised enabling services which are aligned to the three priorities of the Humanitarian Framework: independent data collection and analysis (prioritise); contributing to improved access and inclusion of vulnerable groups (protect); and strengthening early warning and risk management (prevent). The programme will deploy enabling services in rapid onset and protracted crises; complementing and informing the FCDO’s response and providing “global public goods” that multiply the impact of others.
Governance foundations to sustain forests and people: Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will work at international and national levels to address governance failures by both government and market to curb deforestation, restore degraded lands and eco-services whilst delivering benefits and sustaining livelihoods for people in developing countries. It will build from the experience of an earlier global programme, expanding it to address new threats to forests such as mining and encouraging national climate strategies to focus on forests.
UK Regional Support to the most vulnerable Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank (UKRSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The “UK Regional Support to the most vulnerable Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank” programme aims to save lives, reduce suffering and improve resilience during the current crisis and prevent a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation until a more durable political solution is reached. While reaffirming HMG’s ongoing support to Palestinians and to neighbouring host countries, and in conjunction with the OPTs bilateral programme, it will provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as support for those displaced to neighbouring countries. Given the uncertainty and regional volatility, this programme is designed to be flexible to respond to needs arising.
Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop a portfolio of research that provides policymakers and practitioners with concrete ideas on how to improve learning, with particular attention on gender and disability. The RLO programme is a partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that uses the best of British research commissioning processes to award research grants on policy-relevant questions and supports researchers to engage with policy makers and practioners to acheive impact. As of September 2019, 34 grants had been awarded on effective teaching, education in challenging contexts and accountability and a second phase of the programme is planned with a focus on teachers, teaching and girl's education. This programme directly responds to the manifesto commitment on girls' education.
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.
Pakistan Economic Corridors Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Improved transport infrastructure in Pakistan along with enhanced private sector involvement in infrastructure financing, road safety interventions and support to regulatory environment, leading to increased trade and economic growth in Pakistan
TRANSFORM - Transformative Market Based Models for low income household needs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To deliver market based solutions to meet low income households needs by providing private sector creativity and commercial sector approaches to social marketing and demand creation to deliver innovative solutions and new approaches. This will benefit 100 million people by adopting behaviours and accessing household technologies and services that lead to sustained improvements in health, livelihoods, environment and wellbeing. This contributes towards the post-MDG, Nutrition and WASH agendas. The project will be for 5 years.To identify, test and deliver innovative market based solutions that meet the needs of poor households for basic services such as water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income African countries. Part of the DFID-Unilever partnership agreement, this five year project aims to utilise private sector creativity, social marketing and demand creation methods and techniques to promote behavioural change and accessibility of new technologies and services that lead to sustained improvements in health, livelihoods, environment and wellbeing of 100 million poor people.
Exiting Poverty in Rwanda
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Exiting Poverty in Rwanda Programme will provide support to the Government of Rwanda to help create and scale up a more sustainable, self-financed and inclusive system for supporting the most vulnerable, helping the poor manage shocks and enabling more people to sustainably exit poverty. The programme will provide financial aid to the Government of Rwanda to scale up provision of Social Protection to the poorest. It will put a stronger emphasis on sustainability and on working towards a clear exit strategy from the Social Protection Sector in the future. The focus of the programme therefore is strengthening government systems to build effectiveness, government ownership and long-term sustainability of the programme. This phase of support is expected to deliver the impact of extreme poverty eradicated, and poverty levels reduced, with an outcome of the resilience of vulnerable men, women and children and of the Social Protection systems that help sustain them enhanced.
Aawaz II - Inclusion, Accountability and Preventing Modern Slavery Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a Pakistani society and government institutions that support increased voice, choice and control for marginalised groups, protect them from exploitation and prevent discrimination and intolerance at all levels. The programme has a focus on child labour, gender-based violence, child and force marriages, and intolerance against minorities and other socially excluded groups.
Sub-National Governance Programme -II (SNG-II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SNG-II supports improved public financial management to enhance basic service delivery for the poorest and most vulnerable populations, including women, girls, and persons with disabilities. It also aims to strengthen citizen perceptions of government performance. The programme operates across four thematic areas: Planning and Reform Budgeting and Transparency Fiscal Space Innovations Implementation spans the federal level and the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Sindh.
Zimbabwe Economic Stability and Transformation (ZEST) programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will support reforms to improve the economic and business environment in Zimbabwe, in order to unlock Zimbabwe’s prosperity potential. This will help reduce poverty in Zimbabwe through putting the country on a pathway to economic development and job creation. It will also benefit the UK through fostering trade and investment links
Trade and Investment Advocacy Fund (TAF2 Plus)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Trade and Investment Advocacy Fund aims to improve the skills of the world’s poorest developing country governments so they can effectively participate in international negotiations on the global platform. Our support will help developing countries to secure deals that are pro-development and act in their own interests which should led to transformative economic development and in turn poverty reduction, including for women and girls. The Fund will also provide additional support to FCDO Posts seeking support, to ensure they are able to take advantage of secured deals, such as through government strategy planning. The Fund will deliver this support through external technical and legal advice, skills training and some logistical support to developing country governments.
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 (FGM) and build support for efforts to end the practice. Phase I of the programme was called “Towards Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa and Beyond” and ran from 2013-2018.
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