Department for International
Development
An Introduction
History
• Established 1997 under Labour Govt
• Governmental department under a UK
Government Minister – Justine
Greening since September 2012
• Replaced Overseas Development
Administration (ODA)
Current Status
UK Aid budget has been ringfenced from
current cuts, but Ministers under
pressure to justify spending
Some of budget may be diverted to
defence costs
• Still seeking to reach 0.7% target by
2015
Priorities
Education
Economic
Growth
Climate &
Water &
Environment Sanitation
Food &
Nutrition
Governance
& Conflict
Humanitarian
Disasters &
Emergencies
Health
Mid Year Review
• Providing access to safe drinking water and improved
sanitation and hygiene for up to 60 million people
• Supporting 11 million children in school – more than
we educate in the UK, but at 2.5% of the cost
• Vaccinating more children against preventable
diseases than the whole population of England
• Stopping 250,000 babies dying unnecessarily
• Saving the lives of 50,000 women in pregnancy and
childbirth
• Supporting 13 countries to hold free and fair elections
Countries
Current Funds
Girls Education Challenge
(now closed to applications)
• Step Change
 Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, DRC, Ethiopia, Mozambique,
Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Somalia
• Innovation
• Strategic partnerships: Investing in business
innovation and partnership for girls' education
 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, DR Congo, Ethiopia,
Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria,
Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
and Zimbabwe.
Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF)
Main channel for NGOs working in community
development and poverty reduction
2 main funds – Community partnership funds
for grants of up to £250K; Impact Window for
grants of £250K-£4 million over 3 years 25%
Matched funding required for Impact window
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Work-with-us/Fundingopportunities/Not-for-profitorganisations/Global-Poverty-Action-Fund/
UK Aid Match
A demand-led fund which matches public
appeals for development activities
focused on poverty reduction
Expected to be further Call in May 2013
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Work-withus/Funding-opportunities/Not-for-profitorganisations/UK-Aid-Match/
Common Ground Initiative
• African development
• UK-based small and Diaspora organisations
(Annual Turnover of under £1 million)
• £20 million total fund
• http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Work-with-us/Fundingopportunities/Not-for-profitorganisations/Common-ground/
Conflict and Humanitarian Funding
DFID issued new guidelines, which are for
use when responding to a rapid on-set
or sudden spike in a chronic
emergency, usually for programming up
to 12 months.
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/work-withus/funding-opportunities/conflict-andhumanitarian/hrf/
Rapid Response Facility
The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) enables
DFID to commit to rapid humanitarian funding
for pre-qualified partners, which includes
Tearfund. This will be done in the first 72
hours following a rapid onset disaster, but
has only been used once so far
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Work-with-us/Fundingopportunities/Conflict-andhumanitarian/Rapid-Response-Facilityapplications/
G-RAP (Global Resilience Action
Programme)
3 Year initiative being established to help
communities be more prepared when disaster
strikes and better able to cope with their
impact
Full details of funding proposal currently
awaited
http://consultation.dfid.gov.uk/globalresilienceac
tionprogramme2012/
Country Specific Funds
Many DFID offices have funds available
for locally-based NGOs
Tearfund have received funds for projects
in Sudan, S Sudan, Malawi, Zimbabwe
WASH
DFID has funded Tearfund in 5 year WASH
programme up to December 2012 with
projects in Afghanistan, DRC, Liberia, Sudan,
S Sudan and Myanmar
Expecting large amount of funding to be
available under WASH Research Challenge
Fund shortly – looking at potential consortium
with Oxfam – final decision delayed/