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British International Investment (BII) Prog of Support in Africa, S.Asia, Indo-Pacific, Carib & Ukraine (2015-2031)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable BII to scale up its activity of investing and lending to support the building of businesses in developing countries, to create jobs and make a lasting difference to people’s lives in some of the world's poorest places. BII is FCDO’s main vehicle for investing in private companies in Africa, South Asia, Indo-Pacific, the Caribbean and Ukraine. BII encourages capital investments from other private investors by being a first mover, demonstrating to other investors that commercial returns are possible in these frontier markets, and by sharing risk and expertise. The additional equity from FCDO will enable BII to meet demand for capital in its target markets and allow BII to sustain a higher volume of more developmental investments across priority regions and business sectors
Risk Pools Programme (RPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a parametric (index-based) weather risk insurance pool that will provide participating African countries with predictable, quick-disbursing funds with which to implement pre-defined contingency response plans in the case of a drought.
Disaster Risk Insurance
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the resilience of the private sector in poor countries to natural disasters by improving access to insurance products. By supporting the development of a market for private sector disaster risk insurance in developing countries, the project will sustainably help strengthen resilience, mitigate the effects of climate change and supporting economic development through private sector growth.
Innovative Ventures & Technologies for Development (INVENT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To encourage innovation amongst the private sector by provision of investment capital and business development services. To innovative enterprises in low income states of India for enterprises in developing countries by 2024. This will contribute to MDGs by benefitting 1 million individuals with improved access to affordable and efficient services in the Low Income States of India and Developing Countries.
IMPACT - Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Investment to fund innovative solutions for development and help develop sustainable investment markets that work for the poor. FCDO is aiming to catalyse the market for impact investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Impact investments are those which have both a financial and social return by benefiting poor and low-income people through improved access to affordable goods and services and income generating opportunities. The Impact Programme aims to promote solutions to the barriers and constraints that are preventing Impact Investing from scaling up in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The programme seeks to foster a significant increase in the volume and distribution of impact investment, reaching the underserved as consumers, suppliers, distributors or employees, in hard to reach, difficult geographies, and through innovative business models.
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.
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.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy: Official Development Assistance (ODA): budgets & payments
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Funding for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy to promote legitimate and effective, multi-party democracy in developing countries
WISH Dividend - successor programme to WISH 205241
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase the use of family planning methods to reduce maternal deaths and prevent the use and access to unsafe abortion, including for marginalised and young women. To enable women and girls to safely plan their pregnancies and improve their sexual and reproductive health. To deliver UK commitments towards Universal Reproductive Health and Rights [SDGs 3.7 and 5.6]. To support a range of services including family planning, education and behaviour change, prevention of unsafe abortion and other integrated sexual and reproductive health services.
Climate Compatible Growth
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To achieve conditions for infrastructure investment in developing countries that both supports economic growth and is low-carbon. The programme does this by providing tools and evidence that supports investment decision takers in countries in Africa and Asia take an integrated and climate compatible approach about deployment of critical infrastructure capital. With a focus on energy and transport the research addresses how the design of physical infrastructure, regulatory and market systems can promote decarbonisation and how different infrastructure systems interact and can evolve to secure low carbon futures.
CLARE - CLimate And REsilience Framework Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CLARE is a flagship research programme on climate adaptation and resilience, funded mostly (about 90%) by UK Aid through the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and co-funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. CLARE is bridging critical gaps between science and action by championing Southern leadership to enable socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards. Through long-term commitments and partnerships worldwide, and needs-driven, action-focused research, CLARE links up short-and long-term issues, enabling long-term, sustainable, and fair economic and social development in a changing climate whilst supporting action to reduce impacts now and providing a better understanding of climate risks.
Maziko a Maphunziro (Foundations of Learning)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme is key to building human capital and supporting women and girls. The numeracy (maths) component of this programme, building on our previous programming, will work at fully national scale, reaching every primary school in Malawi with a modern maths curriculum reform that includes supply of learner’s workbooks. To address issues of both attendance rates and the ability of children to focus at school the programme will focus on climate interventions including climate-sensitive school feeding alongside small investments aimed at leveraging multilateral climate finance which Malawi struggles to access. Programme will support approximately 1,000 disadvantaged girls by funding scholarships to those accepted to secondary school but unable to attend for financial reasons.
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.
Sudan – Humanitarian Emergency and Longer-term Planning (S-HELP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Humanitarian Emergency and Longer-term Planning (S-HELP) will contribute to reducing excess mortality and morbidity resulting from conflict, climate related hazards, disease outbreaks and economic shocks by the following approaches: framing the programme, maintaining and reinforcing the fundamental principles underpinning humanitarian action: an independent, needs based, approach that does not take the side of any party to the conflict and has the affected people at the centre of programme and policy priorities; continuing to support partners within the UN-led and associated response such as the Sudan Humanitarian Fund and the International Committee of the Red Cross – though this will be further refined through the Business Case design process;
Humanitarian Effectiveness, Accountability and Reform (HEAR) - UN
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide core funding to six humanitarian agencies of the UN - Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). This core funding will support greater scale and reach in life-saving humanitarian assistance while strengthening efforts to prevent further suffering by anticipating future shocks, building resilience, protecting civilians and prioritising assistance to those in greatest need.
Start Fund III, A global response mechanism for providing life-saving humanitarian assistance through NGOs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support to the Start Fund - an NGO led multi-donor humanitarian response mechanism that delivers humanitarian assistance, primarily for underfunded and small to medium scale emergencies.
Nutrition Action for Systemic Change
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme contributes to preventing and reducing malnutrition in all its forms with a particular focus on tackling undernutrition and improving diets of women, girls and children. It will do so by strengthening policy and accountability at country and global level so that health, food and other systems more effectively integrate nutrition objectives, increased public finance is mobilised for delivering nutrition services, and sustainable, healthy diets become more affordable and accessible.
Investing in Nature, Forests and Land Use (INAFOLU)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase levels of investment – public, private, domestic, and international – in Indonesia’s forests and terrestrial biodiversity in support of the Government of Indonesia’s (GoI) ambitions for economic and social development in ways that directly contribute to its international climate commitments. The programme will achieve this by partnering with Indonesia to increase investment in conserving intact forests, restoring peat and other degraded lands, accelerating reforestation, preventing fires, tackling the key drivers of deforestation, and facilitating growth of ‘forest-friendly’ small and medium-scale businesses. INAFOLU will form the UK’s principal contribution in the forest and land sector towards Indonesia’s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions by 43% against ‘business as usual’ growth, a commitment which is described by the Government of Indonesia as its ‘high ambition scenario’ and which is conditional on sufficient international support.
UK Hosting of the Berlin Process 2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Established in 2014, the Berlin Process aims to increase connectivity and cooperation in the Western Balkans, with the ultimate goal of supporting the EU accession of the six Western Balkan countries (WB6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. The Prime Minister agreed that the UK will host the Berlin Process in 2025. As the UK resets its relationship with Europe, the Berlin Process will support stability, security and economic growth, combat irregular migration, and tackle gender inequality. This programme will deliver increased UK leadership and stronger relationships with European partners on the Western Balkans, and tangible progress the WB6 on their Euro-Atlantic paths.
MENTARI, UK-Indonesia Low Carbon Energy Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MENTARI (formerly Indonesia Renewable Energy) programme aims to support inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction through accelerating and expanding low carbon energy in Indonesia while mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion in its delivery Policy, to reform national & regional renewable energy policies, regulations, guidelines, and financial instruments that bring about a more conducive business environment in low carbon energy sector Brokerage, to increase investment in low carbon energy projects by bridging the gap between financiers and project developers through brokerage, technical assistance and small amounts of catalytic Viability Gap Funding Demonstration Project, to demonstrate viable & replicable off-grid low carbon energy systems that will bring socio-economic benefits including for women and marginalised groups Collaboration, Capacity Building & Networking, supports collaboration, networking, and capacity building of relevant stakeholders in low carbon energy sector
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