Aid by Sector
UK - Ghana Partnership for Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote Ghana as an investment destination of choice in West Africa; to support investment into job-creating sectors, particularly through UK investment, partnering development partners including CDC; to support Global Britain objectives across HMG, on trade, prosperity, bilateral cooperation with China on investment issues; to support the UK Ghana Chamber to meet wider UK objectives around responsible development and trade.
Manufacturing Africa - Foreign Direct Investment
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Manufacturing Africa helps drive the inclusive economic transformation needed to create jobs for the future and set countries on a trajectory out of poverty. It is expected to generate £1.2 billion of new Foreign Direct Investment in manufacturing sectors in Africa. It will do this by working with African Governments and international companies to facilitate new investments, such as by developing the business case for firms to undertake investment, or by supporting their negotiations with Government, and by addressing sector specific barriers preventing those particular investments from taking place. MA also aims to reduce carbon emissions from manufacturing through thought leadership as well as delivering technical assistance and supporting investments that facilitate climate change mitigation and or adaptation.
SMEP - Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution (SMEP) programme will tackle the problem of pollution generated by manufacturing and industrial activity in developing countries. Pollution linked to manufacturing and industry in developing countries is causing very high (and in some cases catastrophic) levels of environmental degradation, which are leading to long-term health problems among workers and the general population, as well as widespread contamination of vital resources, including drinking water, livestock, soils and food crops. The SMEP programme will contribute to the identification, development and application of technology-based solutions, cleaner production methods and systems that will reduce the environmental impact and pollution generated by manufacturing in developing countries, leading to long-term environmental sustainability, improved health standards and greater production efficiency.
Accelerating Investment and Infrastructure in Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate private investment and economic growth in Nepal by providing technical expertise to help Nepalese institutions develop major infrastructure; improve the business climate for domestic and foreign investors; improve the implementation of economic policy and test new approaches for local economic development. This will result in at least £600 million of private investment into growth-boosting sectors and a reduction by at least 10% in time or cost for at least five regulatory processes perceived as burdensome by the private sector.
Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To work with global and British business to provide 300,000 women with improved access to better jobs in supply chains where they work in agriculture, manufacturing or other global sectors. The programme will work with business and their suppliers to address barriers to women such as discrimination, violence in the workplace and unpaid care, to help women move into higher paying roles in farms, factories and distribution networks. The programme will also demonstrate the UK's response to the UN High Level Panel (HLP) recommendations by improving results for women through our economic development programmes and participating in new partnerships with HLP members to implement the report.
Africa Technology and Innovation Partnerships - ATIP
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will strengthen innovation ecosystems in Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, in order to stimulate inclusive economic growth and the scaling of technology enabled businesses to solve development challenges.
Strengthening Africa's Science Granting Councils Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will deepen ongoing work with the African Science granting Councils in the same thematic areas as those covered by the first phase of SGCI research management; monitoring learning and evaluation; knowledge transfer to the private sector; and enhanced networks and partnerships amongst councils and with other science system actors. It will extend focus into two new cross cutting dimensions; research excellence and gender equality and inclusivity. It will strengthen national Science Technology and Innovation systems and contribute to socio economic development in sub Saharan Africa by enhancing more effective and inclusive management of research and innovation by Councils in sub Saharan Africa.
Accelerating Ethiopia's Economic Transformation(Accelerate)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will support the Ethiopian Government’s vision of export-led manufacturing growth through foreign and domestic investments to become a reality more quickly and in a sustainable and inclusive way.
The Ethiopia Investment Advisory Facility (EIAF) Phase II Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme aim to provide flexible, demand-led technical assistance to Government of Ethiopia ministries, agencies and state-owned enterprises in order to enhance the effectiveness of public investments and improve the enabling environment for exporters. By providing technical expertise and capacity building in the areas of public investment management; industrial parks and their supporting infrastructure; and trade logistics, EIAF II aims to contribute to outward oriented, manufacturing led, sustainable and inclusive growth in Ethiopia.
Good Governance Fund (Phase 3) Eastern Neighbourhood: Supporting Governance and Economic Reform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Good Governance Fund Phase 3 will deliver demand-led support to governance reforms that allow open societies and economies to flourish. The Good Governance Fund will focus on improving democratic and economic governance, primarily through strategically targeted technical assistance. The Good Governance Fund programme will deliver interventions on a flexible basis, based on identified needs and/or requests from government counterparts or civil society in beneficiary countries (Armenia, Georgia and Moldova) in support of governance and economic reforms. This will support delivery and seek to prevent/reverse democratic backsliding. The Good Governance Fund is part of an integrated portfolio of programmes operating in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate region and supports the delivery of four National Security Council strategies and the Integrated Review.
Strengthening disaster resilience in Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This project will strengthen disaster resilience in Nepal, particularly to earthquakes, by working with urban centres to build and plan more safely; supporting the strengthening of critical public infrastructure to earthquakes; working to strengthen national capacity to respond to crises and ensure that the international community is prepared; and ensuring that the UK is able to support a humanitarian response should a crises hit.
Nepal in Business (NIB) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Nepal in Business programme will unlock economic prosperity by generating inclusive growth, expanding businesses, and addressing income poverty in Nepal. The programme will do this by supporting and financing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to build organisational effectiveness through improved management and productivity, to achieve business growth and create jobs. It will partner with government to create a more conducive business environment in Nepal, delivering the reforms that matter to improve the ease of business. It will establish a recyclable fund to improve access to finance for SMEs by crowding-in commercial finance.
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.
Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This UK Programme provided technical support on city and regional interventions mainly in 2 focus countries, Uganda and Zambia, resulting in increased inclusive economic growth and job creation. The interventions have helped city economies to become more productive, deliver access to reliable, affordable, renewable power for businesses and households, and strengthen investment into infrastructure services, including from the UK. CIG was intended to provide up to £165m to a range of LMICs over 5 years. Due to budget cuts over the life of the programme, CIG was substantially scaled back and at closure comprised technical assistance support to Uganda and Zambia only. CIG provided £52m of support in total (£22.6m of which was spent in Zambia and Uganda). In the final year, 2023, a Phase 2 was started, where management was transferred in July to a country office, covering only Zambia. Phase 2 will last until June 2025, with the possibility of a further year's extension.
Productivity for Prosperity (P4P)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Productivity for Prosperity is a sustainable economic transformation programme that will increase labour productivity and climate-resilience in Tanzania’s job-creating sectors. It will achieve this through private sector development (investment facilitation, trade facilitation and building capabilities of firms) and business environment reform (supporting proportionate and predictable regulation). P4P will dovetail with the UK’s external engagement and influencing activities in Tanzania. P4P will initially prioritise the agroprocessing and horticulture sectors, and will provide flexible support to bolster the UK’s current and future prosperity objectives.
M4H - Mobile for Humanitarian: Exploring the use of mobile technology to provide life-enhancing services during humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Mobile for Humanitarian programme will work with the mobile industry and humanitarian organisations to develop cost effective, scale-able solutions and business models for delivering a range of services to improve disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and recovery. This will include access to information and connectivity, financial services, access to water, sanitation and energy services, digital identity solutions and improving the effectiveness of delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid.
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.
Unlocking Digital Impact for Development.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will help to deliver the strategic goals of DFID’s Digital Strategy, which aims to harness digital technology to deliver on the SDGs. The programme budget is £18.5 million between 2019-20 to 2023-24. Delivery will primarily be through the Digital Impact Alliance, housed within the UN Foundation. There is a separate pillar to finance complementary policy research and advice activities with other partners, including Digital Pathways at Oxford, as well as a learning and evaluation pillar. The programme will identify, trial and institutionalise good practice and common standards for digital development work. It will deliver sustainable and reusable digital products which create new or improved services; replicable business and partnership models to increase the use of digital products and data; data-driven policy-making tools and products to inform and advance transformation; and training offerings and skills-building tools to improve investments in digital technologies.
Hygiene, Handwashing & Behaviour Change Coalition for COVID 19 response programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop an innovative partnership with Unilever to provide funding, for a ‘Hygiene, Handwashing & Behaviour Change’ Coalition for Covid19, matched with in-kind support and technical expertise by Unilever. Under Unilever leadership, the coalition will bring together academia (e.g. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), INGOs (e.g. Oxfam) and UN agencies, to deliver mass communications, hygiene products and digital behaviour change programmes on the importance of hand and environmental hygiene in low- and middle-income countries. This will build on recent investments Unilever has made in response to Covid19 and will allow scale up across multiple countries.
CLARE - CLimate And REsilience Framework Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CLARE is a framework research programme to develop new, more demand responsive evidence, innovation and capacity to enable developing country governments and communities to better address climate change challenges and opportunities and develop more effective disaster risk management and recovery. The programme will support research to improve our understanding of weather and climate systems across Africa and the likely impacts of future change. It will also support research and innovation focused on low-carbon and climate resilient technology as well as help strengthen local capacity to do and use cutting edge climate research and evidence for development.
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