Research funder · United Kingdom

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom

gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office

Grants since 2016: 1 346
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published): £1.5B
Funded works, last 5 years: 4 566
Funded works, all time: 5 689

Grants

2022–2025 · grant · Research on Growth and High Volume Transport in Low Income Countries

Global facility to decarbonize transport

International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (ibrd)

£80k

2022–2026 · grant · Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) - Innovative research for the environment, livelihoods and wildlife.

REDDA - International Labour Organisation (ILO) Nature Based Solutions Jobs report

International Labour Organization

£120k

2022–2028 · grant · TEA - Transforming Energy Access

TEA - Transforming Inclusive Energy Markets (TIME) via Shell Foundation

Shell (Netherlands)

£36M

2022–2024 · grant · FCDO Research Commissioning Centre

Covid Collective Social Research Platform - phase 2

Institute of Development Studies

£2.5M

2022–2024 · grant · Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL)

CDC Research: Impact of investment in large firms in Low Income Countries (Research/Uptake/Admin)

Centre for Economic Policy Research

£1.3M

2022–2024 · grant · Humanitarian Assistance to Burundi (multi-year)

Monitoring & Evaluation/ Scoping Work

Oxford Policy Management

£22.7k

2022–2025 · grant · Strengthening Research Institutions in Africa

Documenting and disseminating lessons from the Strengthening Evidence Use for Development Impact (SEDI) Programme

Oxford Policy Management

£17.6k

2022–2025 · grant · The Evidence Fund - 300708

Generate research to map and better understand conflict and atrocity prevention

Global Development Network

£202.5k

2022–2026 · grant · Enhancing Digital and Innovations for Agri-food Systems and Livelihoods (eDIAL) Programme

(ICF) AgBase - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation

£195.7k

2022–2025 · grant · Strengthening Impact Investment Markets for Agriculture (SIIMA)

Shell Foundation (SIIMA) ICF

Shell (Netherlands)

£9.5M

2022–2026 · grant · Enhancing Digital and Innovations for Agri-food Systems and Livelihoods (eDIAL) Programme

(ICF) EDAAS (Ethiopian Digital Agriculture Advisory programme) - Improving Agricultural Advisory in Ethiopia through Digital

Gates Foundation

£2.5M

2022–2026 · grant · Epidemics and Global Health Security Research Programme (Epidemics and GHS)

COVID-19 Therapeutic Accelerator - Support to Phase III Development and Registration of the Anti-Malaria Drug Pyramax for the Treatment of COVID-19.

Medicines for Malaria Venture

£9.5M

2022–2030 · grant · Climate Compatible Growth

Programme evaluation of Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) Programme

Oxford Policy Management

£951.2k

2022–2023 · grant · Africa Technology and Innovation Partnerships - ATIP

Reducing transmission of Covid 19 and supporting the local market by enabling localised manufacture of PPE

Field Ready

£99.5k

2022–2025 · grant · The Evidence Fund - 300708

Mapping Syria’s narcotics networks and proposing policy responses

Obsalytics

£60.2k

2022–2024 · grant · Hygiene, Handwashing & Behaviour Change Coalition for COVID 19 response programme

Vaccine Data CoLab Phase 2: Improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake, with a view to build resilient health systems for future shocks

Dt Global International Development Uk Ltd

£967.3k

2022–2026 · grant · Tackling global plant and animal health risks which threaten global food systems and health - in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

ICF West & Central African Virus Epidemiology (WAVE)

Gates Foundation

£5.9M

2022–2024 · grant · The Evidence Fund - 300708

Strengthening Thailand data intelligence platform for monitoring excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic

International Health Policy Program Foundation

£49.5k

2022–2024 · grant · The Evidence Fund - 300708

Strategic Review of Official Development Assistance Sindh, Pakistan

Dai Europe

£46k

2022–2025 · grant · Asia Regional Child Labour Programme

Education Interventions to reduce child labour through UNICEF Innocenti - Research

United Nations Children's Fund

£870k

2022–2026 · grant · I2I - Ideas to Impact - Testing new technologies and innovative approaches to address development challenges.

Frontier Technologies 2: exploring the use of frontier technology with FCDO staff and partners

Results For Development

£11.7M

2022–2028 · grant · TEA - Transforming Energy Access

TEA - Research Programme Delivery Consortium (RPDC) via Carbon Trust

Carbon Trust

£71.2M

2022–2027 · grant · Anti Corruption Evidence ' ACE' Programme

Anti Corruption Evidence Feasible Approaches

School Of Oriental And African studies (soas)

£3.7M

2022–2025 · grant · The Evidence Fund - 300708

Classroom Environments and Learning Outcomes in Tanzania (Fab Inc.)

Fab Inc.

£124.2k

2022–2025 · grant · What Works Hub for Global Education

The Education Commission

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

£289.7k

2022–2028 · grant · Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) - Innovative research for the environment, livelihoods and wildlife.

REDDA - Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia - Research and Innovation Implementation

International Institute for Environment and Development

£33.3M

2022–2024 · grant · Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) - Innovative research for the environment, livelihoods and wildlife.

REDDA - ICF Scoping Studies EACDS

Dai Europe

£33.2k

2022–2025 · grant · Multi-purpose Cash Assistance to Refugees in Jordan

Research into the Impact of COVID-19 on Multi-Sector Vulnerabilities, Programme Adaptations and Recovery Response in Jordan

Agence d'Aide à la Coopération Technique Et au Développement

£93.6k

2022–2026 · grant · Tackling global plant and animal health risks which threaten global food systems and health - in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)