UK AID Connect: https://www.gov.uk/international-development-funding/uk-aid-connect
Countries: UK Aid Connect grants will be awarded to consortia for work in or for the benefit of people in countries ranked in the bottom 50 countries in the Human Development Index and/or those on DFID’s fragile states list. See: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/595e2d1bed915d0baf00011b/UK-Aid-Connect-Eligible-Country-List.pdf
Application language: English
Deadline: PHASE 1 – 15 September 2017; PHASE II – 20 October 2017
Grant size: +1,000,000 (depending on priority thematic area (see below)
DESCRIPTION:
The world has seen substantial success on poverty reduction. However, 1.2 billion people remain in extreme poverty. There is a growing recognition that the problems facing the poorest most excluded people and the global challenges underlying those problems, are complex and interconnected. No single development actor has all the answers. Coalitions and collaboration bring new and creative ideas, innovation, better results and opportunities through pooled ideas, skills and resources. DFID wants to bring those qualities together in coalitions that address key development challenges in the following priority thematic areas:
Phase 1
- building civil society effectiveness: http://bit.ly/2wvtCKv
- promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights
- disability inclusion
- working towards global security and stability
[The Outcome of Phase 1 application process will be communicated in November]
Phase 2
- building open societies: http://bit.ly/2tKb4nE
- tackling child labour and modern slavery
- addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion
- supporting tolerance and freedom of religion or belief
[The Outcome of Phase 1 application process will be communicated in December]
The consortia will undertake action research, trialling new approaches and testing the viability of scaling up effective approaches to produce rigorous and influential evidence and learning. The specific results delivered by each consortium will in part be determined by the nature of the issues to be addressed in those particular policy and thematic areas. However, we envisage the consortia will produce rigorous and influential practical evidence, knowledge and learning. The rigorous evidence and learning produced by the consortia will be used to implement and scale up these innovative solutions to deliver real change to poor people’s lives in low and middle income countries.
Applications will be made through a one-stage process – the submission of a proposal by the consortium lead.
ELIGIBILITY:
UK Aid Connect is specifically set up for the award of accountable grants to non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations. However, there is nothing to prohibit the organization being a consortia member.
For more information: UKAidConnect@dfid.gov.uk