Contribution to international development report: 2018-2019
This second annual report takes a holistic look at a wide cross-section of Scottish Government international development activity, and presents it within the context of the UN Global Goals.
International Development Funding Streams and Spend 2018-19
In order to invest our International Development Fund strategically and with good Development practice, we established under our Strategy and will maintain three separate funding streams to deliver our Vision and Priorities.
Three Funding Streams
The way in which our funding streams is allocated is currently as follows:
Stream 1 – International Development Assistance (up to 75% – £7.5m)
Stream 2 – Capacity strengthening (up to 20% – £2m)
Stream 3 – Investment (up to 5% – £500k)
Development Assistance – up to 75% of IDF
Up to 75% of the IDF is development assistance: the majority of this is through competitive challenge funding models for: our development programmes in Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia; and our Small Grants Programme.
We also match fund initiatives in our partner countries, e.g. Comic Relief’s “Levelling the Field” (Girls Leadership through Sport) in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda.
This funding stream also supports: civil society in Scotland through our core funded bodies – SMP, MaSP, SFTF and the Alliance; and Scotland’s Development Education Centres (DECs). More here and here.
Capacity Strengthening – up to 20% of IDF
This funding stream is targeted at harnessing Scottish expertise, for example skills sharing through professional volunteering and capacity strengthening through institutional links: this includes work on gender-based violence by Police Scotland in Malawi and Zambia. Our support for the NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Programme also comes from this strand. More here.
In Pakistan we continue to support education through scholarships for women and children run by British Council Pakistan. More here.
We are supporting the training of up to 50 women per year in conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
Investment – up to 5% of IDF
We will support trade and investment to promote the economic development of Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda in line with wider government policies in those countries. We will also seek to help Scottish social enterprises expand internationally and help those partner countries realise the benefits of the social enterprise model. At present all funding under this stream is for the Malawi Investment Initiative, and it has not yet expanded to our other partner countries. More here.
International Development Fund Spending Table 18-19
| International Development Fund 2018-19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Stream 1: Development Assistance | Description | Funding |
| Main Development Programmes | Malawi Development Programme 2015-18 extensions (April-October) | £1.2M |
| Malawi Development Programme 2018-23 (October–April) | £1.33M | |
| Zambia Development Programme 2017-22 | £1.475M | |
| Rwanda Development Programme 2017-22 | £2.05 | |
| Small Grants Programme | (NB funded 2017-19 in 2018 budget) | £0 |
| Comic Relief partnership | Match-funded Levelling the Field initiative in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda | £200k |
| Scholarships | Colin & Alison Cameron: Girls Scholarships Malawi | £50k |
| Core funding: int’l development networking/fair trade organisations | Scotland's International Development Alliance | £224k |
| Scotland Malawi Partnership | £237k | |
| Malawi Scotland Partnership | £117k | |
| Scottish Fair Trade Forum | £160k | |
| Other | Scotland's International Development Alliance – Safeguarding Initiative | £20k |
| Malawi Scotland Partnership – Safeguarding Initiative | £20k | |
| Development Education Centres: Contribution towards wider SG funding | £70k | |
| Challenges Worldwide: Water Filtering in Rwanda additional grant | £21.5k | |
| Colin & Alison Cameron: Girls Scholarships Malawi (2017-21) | £50k | |
| World Book Day – Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda (donations of books via education projects) | £12k | |
| UN Women: WeLearn: Virtual Skills Schools pilot in Malawi | £114k | |
| Disasters Emergency Committee – Cyclone Idai Appeal for Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe | £100k | |
| Stream 2: Capacity Building | British Council Pakistan: Scholarship Scheme for Women in Higher Education 2018-19 | £175k |
| British Council Pakistan: Scholarship Scheme for School Children 2018-19 | £150k | |
| Police Scotland: GBV and child protection training – Malawi and Zambia | £498k | |
| Social Enterprise Academy – Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda (50% SG total) | £89k | |
| Social Enterprise in Schools Pilot (SEA) – Malawi | £99.3 | |
| Beyond Borders: UN project for women in Syria | £300k | |
| Blantyre-Blantyre Clinical Research Facility | £200k | |
| University of Glasgow: College of Medicine Governance support | £100k | |
| Sustainable Organic Agriculture Project at Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, Zambia (match-funded with SCIAF) | £40k towards £80k SG total | |
| Global Health: Zambia: Scottish Ambulance Service Emergency Care Scoping study | £57k | |
| Global Health: Global Health Coordination Unit staffing | £50k | |
| SMMHEP Psychiatry Programme – consolidation in Malawi and extension of the Programme into Zambia | £185.8k | |
| McConnell International Foundation: Livingstone Volunteers Scheme | £17.5k | |
| RCPSG: Livingstone Fellowships for doctors in Malawi/Zambia | £175k | |
| Heriot Watt: Edinburgh Business School Scholarships for Women in Zambia | £42.5k | |
| Young Farmers – Rwanda | £9.5k | |
| Stream 3: Investment | Social Investment Fund – Malawi | £400k |
| Total | £10M | |
Milestones in 2018-2019
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Email: joanna.keating@gov.scot
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