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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.
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.
African Union Partnership Programme (AUP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
AUP will work to strengthen the African Union's capacity in four areas: Governance and security, Climate and Nature, Economic growth and transformation, and Migration. Underpinning these strands will be a cross-cutting theme of Partnership, with core funding to the AU through the multi-donor Joint Funding Agreement and the secondment of African experts to fill key resource gaps holding back achievement of shared UK-AU objectives. AUP will deliver on the UK-AU shared objective of inclusive and sustainable development in Africa through reduced conflict, credible elections, green investment, increased domestic revenue and progress on addressing illicit migration.
SUBS: Human Rights Department Subscriptions
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
International Subscriptions to organisations promoting fundamental human rights and protections for minority and / or vulnerable groups.
Extra Budgetary Resource (EBR) projects with the Commonwealth Secretariat 2025/26
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Support for designated project activity in line with UK priorities for the Commonwealth, including on trade and investment, democracy, good governance and the rule of law, and climate finance
The Evidence Fund Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
Mandatory core contributions to the Commonwealth Secretariat
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Commonwealth Secretariat, the principal intergovernmental organisation of the Commonwealth of Nations, runs programmes that help to contribute to more stable, democratic frameworks in which sustainable development and climate-resilience can be supported in small and vulnerable Commonwealth states. The Commonwealth Secretariat’s programme funds contribute across a range of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. They have an impact on the lives of Commonwealth citizens by promoting the shared goals and values embodied in the Commonwealth Charter on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, building resilience and taking action on climate change and protection of the natural environment, promoting economic development and boosting trade and investment.
Eastern Neighbourhood Partnership for Resilience Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will strengthen political, societal and economic resilience across the Eastern Neighbourhood by supporting democratic institutions, inclusive governance, civic space, and effective public services. It will counter hybrid threats, disinformation and external interference by investing in civil society, independent media, and local leadership. Targeted technical assistance will help reform minded governments deliver sustainable, citizen focused change, while economic support will improve regulatory quality and reduce vulnerability to external shocks.
Zimbabwe Partnerships for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Zimbabwe Partnerships for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth portfolio programme will be the UK’s flagship ODA programme in Zimbabwe, supporting UK strategic objectives and the new Approach to Africa. With a £28 million budget, the programme aims to unlock inclusive, sustainable economic growth as the primary pathway out of poverty, while advancing mutual UK–Zimbabwe interests in trade, investment, and stability. It will strengthen the foundations for growth—particularly human capital, public systems, governance, and climate resilience—while accelerating key drivers of growth such as finance, private sector productivity, and trade, and embedding women and girls throughout. Delivered through adaptive, locally led partnerships, the programme leverages UK expertise, investment, and convening power to catalyse long-term, system-level change.
Yemen Economic Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
he Yemen Economic Stabilisation (YES) Programme strengthens the Government of Yemen’s (GoY) capability to deliver essential, inclusive services by addressing core drivers of economic instability through targeted, politically informed technical assistance. Through a politically oriented and conflict sensitive approach, YES supports reforms in public financial management, monetary stability, electricity sector, and the financial sector, while creating conditions for private-sector investment and job creation. By stabilising essential GoY economic governance, the programme over time enhances the government’s credibility and legitimacy, maintaining a pathway to a political process, and reduces humanitarian needs. Beneficiaries include Yemeni citizens (particularly in GoY-controlled areas) and vulnerable households, as well as core economic institutions such as the Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, and energy authorities.
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.
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
International Growth Centre - Phase 3
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The IGC will help developing countries implement effective inclusive growth policies, in order to lift their citizens out of poverty. The programme will provide rigorous, policy-relevant research; and independent, demand-led policy advice directly to country governments on key priority areas identified in DFID’s 2017 Economic Development Strategy: economic governance; trade and productivity; cities and infrastructure; and energy.
Urban Resilience Programme in South Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Urban Resilience Programme will fund technical assistance (TA) for inclusive, sustainable and climate-resilient economic development in South African cities. The programme will support South Africa’s ambitions for green recovery, sustainable growth and institution building. The programme will build on the learning and achievements of Future Cities, which successfully delivered strategies for urban governance, spatial planning and economic development in Durban/eThekwini, Johannesburg and Cape Town
UK Support to Financing of Recovery from Economic Emergency in Ukraine (FREE Ukraine)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a large and growing financing gap, with Ukraine unable to source affordable finance from domestic or international capital markets and revenue sources drying up. Ukraine urgently needs fiscal support to enable the Government to pay salaries, pensions, maintain safety nets and keep key state functions and essential services operating, with the poorest and most vulnerable Ukrainians most at risk. The UK will provide fiscal support to the Government of Ukraine through a £74m grant to a World Bank Multi-Donor Trust Fund and up to $450m in guarantees enabling more World Bank lending to Ukraine. This will provide important financial support to Ukraine.. Outcomes of the financing will reflect a reduced financing gap for the Ukrainian Government, the maintenance of essential payments (e.g. pensions and state salaries) and services, and limiting the extent of market concerns.
Just Energy Transition Partnership Support, South Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to support the accelerated decarbonisation of South Africa's electricity system to achieve the most ambitious target possible within South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). It will also support a just transition that protects vulnerable workers and communities, especially coal miners, women and youth, affected by the move away from coal.
Malawi Trade and Investment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MTIP aims to stimulate a step change in Malawi’s growth by promoting higher value export sectors, cutting time and costs of trade and logistics, and raising international and domestic investment in new exports. Underpinning this will be a focused effort to improve the business enabling environment. Higher economic growth is expected to translate into sustained poverty reduction, creating new jobs and income generating opportunities and much needed revenue to fund the public services needed for a fast-growing population. Specifically, programme aims include reducing the costs of trade for Malawi by 10% and converting over 5,000 hectares of land to more productive high value export crops.
Fiscal Transparency and Accountability Initiative
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the analysis of public financial management and the openness of governments in FCDO priority countries about their financial transactions to help to identify financial risks and provide evidence for planning reforms. Aims to strengthen budget oversight, with a particular focus on supreme audit institutions and scrutiny on law-making, and the links with others who are part of the network of accountability. To improve budget transparency, including open budgets and open contracting as key elements of financial accountability and management. Also supporting IFAC to build the managerial and technical capacity of professional accountancy organisations in countries and regions of focus for FCDO to ensure a sustainable supply of professional accountants that support high quality accounting practices and financial information in both the public and private sectors. This contributes towards delivery of SDG 16 by developing effective, accountable and transparent institutions.
Effective Governance for Economic Development in Central Asia
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
EGED will help improve the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of economic policies in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. We will support governments in the three countries to generate better data and evidence, use this data for policy design and implementation of up to 15 economic reforms, improved coordination within government, and better engagement with citizens. We will also build the capacity of civil society in the region to hold the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to account on select economic policies. Success will be measured through a) increased public sector revenue generated as a result of better policy planning and monitoring; b) better economic policy outcomes helping improve the livelihoods of Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Tajik citizens and c) improved quality of engagement between government and civil society.
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