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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) UK Capital Investment
HM Treasury
UK investment in the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to assist in addressing the shortage of infrastructure investment across the Asia-Pacific region. The UK’s membership will deepen economic ties with Asia and create opportunities for British businesses. The AIIB will support economic growth in the region and drive up living standards. The AIIB aims to help bridge the gap and improve economic growth in Asia. The establishment of the AIIB supports access to finance for infrastructure projects across Asia using a variety of support measures including loans, equity investments and guarantees to boost investment. Supporting infrastructure investment in Asian will support economic growth in the region and give benefits for the whole global economy.
UK contribution to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Special Fund
HM Treasury
At the ninth UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) in Beijing on 16 December 2017, the Chancellor of the Exchequer signed a Contribution Agreement with the AIIB, formalising the UK’s commitment, made at the previous EFD in 2016, to provide US$50m to the AIIB’s Special Fund for Project Preparation. This fund provides grant support to developing Asian countries to prepare infrastructure projects for the Bank to finance. The UK's contribution is through the Prosperity Fund.
Global Programme for Sustainability
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The programme supports sustainable economic growth that is both long-lasting and resilient to climate-related stressors. It does this through the integration of natural capital into decision making by governments, the private sector and financial institutions. The inability to value natural capital can undermine long-term growth and critically, the livelihoods of the poorest people dependent on ecosystems for their livelihoods. This programme directly addresses this challenge by (i) investing in data and research on natural capital; (ii) assisting countries to integrate this analysis into government policy making; and (iii) integrating these data and analysis into financial sector decision making.
UK Annual Contributions to the Montreal Protocol Trust Fund, Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund and Vienna Convention Trust Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This activity supports an annual UK contribution to The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer which is a multilateral environmental agreement with universal ratification. It regulates the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances (ODS). Protection of the ozone layer is vital in preventing increased UV radiation, resulting in higher incidence of skin cancers and eye cataracts, more-compromised immune systems, and negative effects on watersheds, agricultural lands and forests. The Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol was established in 1991. The Fund's objective is to provide financial and technical assistance to developing country parties to the Montreal Protocol whose annual per capita consumption and production of ODS is less than 0.3 kg to comply with the control measures of the Protocol. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer is a multilateral environmental agreement signed in 1985 that provided frameworks for international reductions in the production of chlorofluorocarbons due to their contribution to the destruction of the ozone layer, resulting in an increased threat of skin cancer.
Global Environment Facility (GEF) 7th Replenishment
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
To support developing countries to implement international agreements on climate change, biodiversity, land degradation and harmful chemicals as integral elements of sustainable development. GEF’s other activities include sustainable forest management, international waters and protecting the ozone layer.
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.
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.
Good Governance Fund (Phase 3) Ukraine: Supporting Governance and Economic Reform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Good Governance Fund seeks to tackle corruption, improve the business environment, make governments more responsive to citizens, enhance civil society freedoms, and promote overall reform.
Western Balkans – Freedom and Resilience Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will address long-term, structural issues across the region, including ethno-nationalist division, and support transparency and accountability in government, as well as underlying society challenges such as discrimination and violence against women and girls. The Programme will comprise a portfolio of interventions in three areas: reconciliation and peacebuilding in conflict-affected communities; empowering women and girls and tackling Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and gender-based violence; and strengthening government capacity, transparency and accountability. Programming will be country-led, with Posts able to bid for funds in support of projects in line with their priorities.
Reforming the United Nations System - Humanitarian (RUSH)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide core funding to five 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 Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and International Organisation of Migration (IOM). 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.
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.
Nigeria Portfolio Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Give FCDO Nigeria a mechanism and support with providing answers to questions on programme and diplomacy performance, contribution to change, which approaches work best and how we should allocate future resources.
Centre for Delivery's Solutions Hub (Solutions Hub)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Solutions Hub aims to improve the quality and efficiency of FCDO programme design, delivery and reviews through: • Targeted support to FCDO Delivery Teams, particularly on complex or innovative programmes; • Evidence-based advice on the best value delivery options; and, • Coordinating, signposting and providing guidance and expert challenge to improve delivery and monitoring of programmes.
Research and development to help end the preventable deaths of women, children and new-borns (EPD).
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce maternal/newborn/child mortality and morbidity - health product development/scale-up, and rapid analysis/dissemination of evidence
UK Global Health Security Research & Development Programme.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Research to prepare/prevent/respond to health crises: health product development & evidence on prevention/detection of epidemics
Programme to support accountability and inclusion (Programme d'Appui à la Redevabilité et l'Inclusion) (PARI)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to increase the transparency, accountability and effectiveness of governance institutions at central level and in selected provinces to deliver better pro-poor services and support democracy and lasting stability in DRC.
UN Development Programme - Core Funding
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Annual un-earmarked regular resources to support the delivery of the UNDP strategy to: Eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions; Accelerate structural transformation for sustainable development; and Build resilience to crises and shocks.
Delivering the Agricultural Breakthrough
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate the development of solutions that promote resilient, sustainable and productive food systems, and rapidly increasing honest and reliable climate finance to take solutions to scale.
Core funding for the Resident Coordinator (RC) System to support UN reforms.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support reform of the UN development system so that it offers greater value for money, works as ‘One UN’, has a more targeted approach, is better aligned to the UN Charter across the system, and has stronger leadership. To achieve this through the provision of voluntary core funding to the Special Purpose Trust Fund (SPTF), managed by the UN Development Coordination Office (DCO). This provides flexible resource to: Manage the Resident Coordinator (RC) System, through both guiding UN Resident Coordinators (RCs) and UN Country Teams (UNCTs), and shaping and supporting policy, programming and operations in country. Progress UN Reforms to ensure that the UNDS provides an effective, efficient and accountable response to the needs and priorities of the host country and people.
United Kingdom (UK) Support to the Pandemic Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will provide early seed funding towards the Pandemic fund - a new Financial Intermediary Fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response hosted by the World Bank
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