Other technical facilities

Through this section, users can be referred to other expert facilities beyond the CLEAN Helpdesk's core areas of expertise. These facilities offer targeted support in areas like climate adaptation, health risks related to climate change, and more.

Nature Facility

The Nature Facility provides advice on demand to help FCDO staff and partners put nature at the heart of their work. It aligns with the UK’s international climate and environment commitments and aims to make FCDO’s work more effective and sustainable.

Global
Technical assistance
Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
Biodiversity / ecosystem conservation and management (terrestrial and marine)
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Diplomacy and policy influencing
Economics
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Infrastructure (including energy and transport)
Livelihoods and markets
Low carbon growth and mitigation
Water Resources Management
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CLARE Research for Impact Opportunity Fund

The Fund supports the uptake of adaptation and resilience research and existing knowledge into practical applications that meet the current needs of decision makers in Africa and Asia. Funding opportunities are available for short term and small-scale interventions that support the needs of decision makers to adapt to climate change through the use of existing research and evidence. The CLARE R4I Opportunity Fund will source and procure the service of researchers and technical experts to deliver the interventions. Resources are not available for conducting new primary research, and interventions must be completed within a 12-month timeframe.

Asia-Pacific
Middle East and North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Other
Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Water Resources Management
Urban Planning and Development
Food Security
Climate Science
Health
Humanitarian
Finance and Insurance
open

Disability Inclusion Helpdesk

The Disability Inclusion Helpdesk is a research, advice and technical assistance service for FCDO and HMG. The Helpdesk provides research and advice to FCDO and other UK government departments on disability inclusion in ODA funded policy and programming. It can advise on disability inclusion across sectors and themes, providing support to identify entry points to protect and promote disability rights in strategies, plans, campaigns, programmes and policies in development and diplomatic settings. This includes providing research and advice on disability inclusion in climate, environment, and nature programming and policy, alongside other topics. It takes a rights-based approach to disability inclusion and apply a gender and intersectionality lens in everything it does.

Global
Technical assistance
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Economic Development
Education
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Governance
Health
Humanitarian
Livelihoods and markets
Private sector development
Social Development
Social Protection
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Ending Violence Against Women and Children Helpdesk

The Ending Violence Against Women and Children Helpdesk, funded under the What Works programme, provides research and advice for the UK government to improve policy, practice and investment in preventing and responding to violence against women and children. The Helpdesk provides research and guidance on linkages between VAWC and climate change, including ways that climate change exacerbates risks of VAWC, violence against climate change activists, and how to mitigate and respond to the risks of VAWC in climate, environment and nature programming. It is also currently providing technical assistance on integrating GBV prevention programming into select climate programming in the MENA region.

Global
Technical assistance
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Health
Humanitarian
Social Development
Social Protection
open

Green Cities, Infrastructure and Energy Programme (GCIEP)

The Green Cities, Infrastructure and Energy Programme (GCIEP) is a large, multi-country, demand-driven FCDO-funded programme designed to catalyse investment in sustainable and resilient infrastructure, to improve the policy environment for green cities and infrastructure and to improve municipal finance and public services, creating jobs and increasing productivity in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). GCIEP works with national and sub-national government counterparts in six deep offer countries – Ghana, Mozambique, Zambia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam – as well as providing more targeted assistance in over 20 other countries, across multiple sectors including transport, energy, water and waste management and sustainable urban development. GCIEP is a key delivery arm for the wider UK GCIE Centre of Expertise (COE) for Green Cities, Infrastructure and Energy.

Asia Pacific
Middle East and North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Americas and Overseas Territories
Other
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Economic Development
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Governance
Infrastructure (including energy and transport)
Low carbon growth and mitigation
Public financial management and taxation
Urban Planning and Development
Water Resources Management
Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH)
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Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)

The Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR) is a joint initiative of the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office (FCDO)’s Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) and Gender-Responsive Social Protection (GSP) programmes. The project is dedicated to expanding and improving the effectiveness of investments in both gender-responsive social protection and social protection approaches in crises, including those driven by climate change and extreme weather events. In its final year of operation, STAAR is focussing on supporting the uptake and use of assistance already or currently being provided. We will continue to publish insights, outputs and syntheses from our work - so do follow our LinkedIn and publications page on Socialprotection.org to access these.

Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Asia-Pacific
Americas and Overseas Territories
Technical assistance
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Humanitarian
Food Security
Conflict and Security
Social Protection
open

SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)

SPARC has a significant demand-responsive component, offering operational advice to address evidence gaps on the effectiveness of interventions that support the resilience of agricultural, pastoral and transitional livelihoods in protracted and recurrent crises in the drylands of the Sahel and the Middle East. The programme’s approach uses a process of scoping, summarising, tailoring and disseminating lessons from existing initiatives to support better development practice and evidence-based decision making in policy and programming.

Global
Technical assistance
Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
Conflict and Security
Humanitarian
Livelihoods and markets
Private sector development
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
open

UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT)

UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT) is a £340m technical assistance programme, funded by the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF). UK PACT supports select ODA-eligible countries with high mitigation potential to increase their climate ambition and implement that ambition more rapidly, more effectively, and more equitably. UK PACT delivers impact through a combination of funding longer-term capacity-building projects and the rapid mobilisation of expertise, through ten bilateral Country Programmes and two regional funds.

Middle East and North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Indo-Pacific
Other
Diplomacy and policy influencing
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Blue Economy
Finance and Insurance
Low carbon growth and mitigation
Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
Biodiversity / ecosystem conservation and management (terrestrial and marine)
Infrastructure (including energy and transport)
Governance
Urban Planning and Development
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Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk

The Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk provides rapid, flexible, tailored and specialist analysis, guidance and ‘know-how’ to support UK government staff in addressing Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in policy and programming. The on-demand query service on WEE is available to FCDO and other HMG Department staff working on international Economic Development policy and programmes in relation to ODA eligible countries, across central, regional and country-based locations. It is overseen by FCDO’s Economic Development and Partnerships Directorate. The Helpdesk is currently not considering new requests.

Global
Technical assistance
Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
Economic Development
Food Security
Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion
Infrastructure (including energy and transport)
Livelihoods and markets
Low carbon growth and mitigation
Manufacturing and Industry
Private sector development
Public financial management and taxation
Social Development
Social Protection
Urban Planning and Development
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