UK Aid Connect will support consortia to create innovative solutions to complex development challenges that deliver real change to poor people’s lives.

UK Aid Connect

From:

Department for International Development

Published:

6 July 2017

Funds:

Open

Countries:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia

+ 22 more

Sector:

Agriculture, Climate change, Disabilities, Education, Empowerment and accountability

+ 8 more

Eligible organisations:

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), UK-based non-profit organisations, UK-based small and diaspora organisations, Companies, and Local government

Value of funding:

More than £1,000,000

UK Aid Connect will support consortia to create innovative solutions to complex development challenges that deliver real change to poor people’s lives.

Contents

1. What the fund will achieve
2. How to apply
3. Background information on the fund
4. Project documents
5. Contact

 
DFID is inviting consortia to submit proposals that will address the key development challenges in the priority thematic areas listed below. The deadline for the submission of proposals is:

• Phase 1: 11:59pm on 18 August 2017
• Phase 2: 11:59pm on 15 September 2017

What the fund will achieve

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

• Promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Achieving disability inclusion
• Working towards global security and stability
• Building civil society effectiveness

Phase 2

• Building open societies: protecting the space for free, plural and independent media
• Tackling child labour and modern slavery
• Addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion
• Supporting tolerance and freedom of religion or belief

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.

How to apply

Applications will be made through a one-stage process – the submission of a proposal by the consortium lead.

Background information on the fund

The Terms of Reference for each of the themes will set out the background on UK Aid Connect and the process for submitting the proposal. Between now and 31 July, DFID will convene a series of open meetings to discuss the key development challenges in the thematic areas. Information on these events are posted below and the terms of reference will be available here week commencing 10 July.

Project documents

• Information note
• Eligible country list

Contact

Please e-mail enquiries to UKAidConnect@dfid.gov.uk