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Jordan Compact Economic Opportunities Programme
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-205201 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £201,499,999To promote economic development and opportunities in Jordan for the benefit of both Jordanians and Syrian refugees. This programme will attract new inward investment and open up economic markets for Jordanian goods and services, creating new jobs for Jordanians and Syrian refugees as set out in the Jordan Compact. The programme will also help Jordanian hosts maintain their resilience and economic stability.
Enterprise and Assets Growth Programme
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-202495 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £197,049,997Improved Micro Small and Medium Enterprise access to appropriate financial services translating into higher economic benefits for state, and poor and marginalised groups, in Pakistan
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-201724 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £148,570,323A global programme supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources, benefitting poor forest-dependent people and promoting sustainable growth in developing countries.
UK Aid Match 2013–2016: giving the public a say in how a portion of the aid budget is spent
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-203559 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £123,541,596UK Aid Match allows the UK public to have a say in how an element of the aid budget is spent. DFID will match fund, pound for pound, public donations to appeals made by selected not-for-profit organisations, enabling them to increase their poverty reduction and development work in DFID priority countries.
Private Sector Development programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-203161 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £94,499,981The design of a systemic, context-specific PSD programme which strategically targets key constraints in order to empower the private sector to be an engine of growth, job creation and poverty alleviation in DRC thus improving the lives of poor people in DRC by 2023.To foster economic opportunities for poor people in the Democratic Republic of Congo by providing them with access to financial services, well functioning markets, and an enabling business environment.
Regional Economic Development for Investment and Trade (REDIT) Programme
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-GOV-1-300137 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £84,096,108The programme aims to increase sustainable and shared prosperity in Kenya by increasing Kenya’s trade with the region and the rest of the world. Specifically, the programme will (i) invest in improving the efficiency and capacity of transport, logistics and trade infrastructure at Mombasa Port and key border points; (ii) invest in systems to improve trading standards, reduce non-tariff barriers and enhance transparency in trade processes; (iii) improve the regulatory and policy environment for trade; and (iv) support private sector advocacy for trade competitiveness, the export capacity of Kenyan businesses and the greater participation of women and small and growing businesses in trade.
Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-202596 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £69,903,419To support access to finance for small and medium sized businesses, especially those owned and run by women, and to support productivity and growth in the horticulture, leather and textiles sectors in order to raise incomes and create jobs.
Support to the Economic Recovery of Somalia (SERS)
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-204313 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £69,400,000This project will deliver on the economic priorities of the Federal Government of Somalia by supporting the World Bank’s Multi Partner Fund (MPF) to: 1. build more effective and efficient public institutions through support to Public Financial Management and Public Sector Management and 2. to improve the business enabling environment by building critical infrastructure, supporting the development of key sectors, helping create jobs and improving access to finance and training, with a focus on women and girls.
TEA - Transforming Energy Access
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-204867 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £64,693,927The project is up to £65 million over five years, to support early stage testing and scale up of innovative technologies and business models that will accelerate access to affordable, clean energy services for poor households and enterprises, especially in Africa. The programme will include: i) partnership with Shell Foundation, enabling support to another 30+ early stage private sector innovations. ii) Innovate UK’s Energy Catalyst to stimulate technology innovation by UK enterprises; iii) build other strategic clean energy innovation partnerships (e.g. testing a new ‘P2P Solar’ crowdfunding platform; and scoping a potential new partnership with Gates Foundation on Mission Innovation); iv) skills and expertise development. To support early stage testing and scale up of innovative technologies and business models that will accelerate access to affordable, clean energy services for poor households and enterprises, especially in Africa
Corridors for Growth
Reporting Organisation: Department for International Development Project Identifier: GB-1-204369 Activity Status: Implementation Total Budget: £61,000,000To increase Tanzania’s infrastructure for trade in three ways (i) Co-financing the Dar Port expansion together with the World Bank and Tanzania Port Authority will double port capacity and enable Tanzania’s entire trade volume to increase by two thirds. (ii) Project preparation funding for six more major regional transport projects are expected to catalyse up to £600m of development finance incorporating climate resilent design. (iii) Launching a new approach to Public-Private Partnerships will improve infrastructure in municipal areas and build capacity for larger PPP’s in the future.The programme is expected to reduce the costs of doing business in Tanzania, contributing to growth, more jobs and lower poverty. The short-term beneficiaries will be users such as traders, logistics providers and public citizens. International business including from the UK will benefit from better access to trade.In the medium to long run employment is expected to increase from indirect effects.