UK Aid Connect

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

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 6 July 2017
• Last updated: 11 October 2019 — See all updates

• Funds: Closed
• Countries: Bangladesh, Congo (Democratic Republic), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Sector: Agriculture, Climate change, Disabilities, Education, Empowerment and accountability, Environment, Girls and women, Health, Livelihoods, Peace and access to justice, Private sector/business, Technology, Water and sanitation
• Eligible organisations: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), UK-based non-profit organisations, UK-based small and diaspora organisations, Companies, Local government
• Value of funding: More than £1,000,000

The fund is not currently open for applications.

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. FCDO 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
• disability inclusion
• working towards global security and stability
• building civil society effectiveness

Phase 2

• building open societies
• 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

Please refer to the terms of reference for full details. Applicants must submit a Microsoft Word version of their proposal and associated documents using the templates provided below, by email, to UKAidConnect@dfid.gov.uk

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. A strong proposal will provide quality ideas and articulate how those ideas will bring about lasting change. We do not expect to see a full programme design. This will be undertaken with FCDO during the co-creation phase.

FCDO will convene a series of open meetings to discuss the key development challenges in the thematic areas. Information on these events are set out in the information note.

Project documents

• Consortia Grants formally announced
• Information note
• Eligible country list
• Preparing your budget
• Proposal form
• Budget template
• Theory of Change guidance
• Theory of Change guidance annexe

Terms of reference

• Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
• Disability Inclusion
• Addressing Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual and Transgender Inclusion
• Building Civil Society Effectiveness
• Building Open Societies
• Supporting Tolerance and Freedom of Religion or Belief
• Tackling Child Labour and Modern Slavery
• Working towards Global Security and Stability
• Stability framework

Programme Summaries

• Innovation to inclusion
• Effective approaches to ending the worst forms of child labout in fragile contexts
• The development alternative
• Inclusion works
• Coalition for religious equality and inclusive development
• Smart peace
• Evidence and collaboration for inclusive development
• Civil Society Collective

Frequently asked questions

• FAQs

Dialogue meetings

• Summary of the dialogue and discussion meetings
• Dialogue and discussion presentation pack

Contact

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

Published 6 July 2017
Last updated 11 October 2019 + show all updates

1. 11 October 2019

   Revised consortia grants formally announced list, added

2. 12 April 2019

   Updated Consortia Grants formally announced 12 April 2019

3. 13 December 2018

   Consortia Grants formally annouced

4. 11 April 2018

   Deadline for applications has passed, the funding is not currently open for applications.

5. 8 September 2017

   Revised version of Frequently Asked Questions added

6. 4 August 2017

   Summary of dialogue meetings and presentations added.

7. 14 July 2017

   New terms of reference added.

8. 11 July 2017

   Terms of Reference: Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) now added.

9. 6 July 2017

   First published.