1. DFID civil society funding
Inclusive Societies Department
DFID

2. DFID’s spend on civil society in 2016-17 was £1.3 billion
Spend in Spend in
Central departments : £585m
Country offices : £782m
Civil society expenditure was 25% of bilateral spend in 2014/15
DFID’s civil society spend has increased by 8.31% between 2015/16 and 2016/17.
Split between central and country office spend on civil society in 2016/17:
62% country office
38% central departments AD
Source of DFID bilateral spend: DFID annual accounts, PRMT teamsite, GPEX does not currently cover

3. DFID £1,268m Civil society expenditure in 2016/17 Country Offices
Ghana
Malawi
Mozambique
Southern Africa
Zambia
West and Southern
£192m
Bangladesh
£92m
Yemen
Syria
Vietnam
Nigeria
MENAD
£180M
Burma
Indonesia
Zimbabwe
ASCOT
£132m
SL & Liberia
Carribean
India
Kenya
Jerusalem and
Palestine
Ethiopia
Somalia
Country Offices
£783m
Nepal
Africa
£431m
Tanzania
Afghanistan
Regional teams
East and Central
£239m
West Asia
£35m
DRC
Sudan
Pakistan
S Sudan
FPID
ISD
£142m
CED
Rwanda
Uganda
DFID
£1,268m
Approx. X% of Bilateral
EPIC
GOSAC
Central
£485m SH
Chief Heads
of Profession
PGP
£470m
EU Dept
Migration
Youth & Education
T4D
Evaluation
CHASE/
Conflict Fund
£114m
HDD
Global
Partnerships
PSD
RED
Source: Internal Quality Assured ARIES channel code and funding mechanism data, June 2016
GRD

4. Country office expenditure on civil society
The darker the colour the higher the total country office spend on CSOs ( ) SH
Speaking points:
Dark largest proportion of aggregate CO CSO spend
Note percentages are of the total country office spend on CSOs
Civil Society Partnership Review
Source: Internal Quality Assured ARIES channel code and funding mechanism data, Sept 2015

5. Wide range of civil society organisationsSH
Source: Internal Quality Assured ARIES channel code and funding mechanism data, June 2017.

6. Civil Society Partnership STRATEGY: new objectives
Review 2016
STRATEGY: new objectives
Core delivery partner
Leave No One Behind commitment
Accountability and empowerment
Civil society capability
Civic space
Knowledge and evidence
Innovation
Cost effectiveness and efficiency,
Build public support for development
STRATEGY
FUNDING
ENGAGEMENT
Engagement
High Level Key Relationship Management
Strategic Ministerial engagement
Thematic CSO dialogue
Civil society open day
Road shows
In-country CSO engagement
Funding
Streamlined funding
Overhead costs
Code of conduct
Transparency
Beneficiary feedback

7. Central Funding Mechanisms
UK Aid Match
UK Aid Volunteers
UK Aid Direct
Small CSOS
Medium CSOs
Large CSOs
Volunteering agencies
UK Aid Connect

8. UK Aid Connect
UK Aid Connect will provide grants to consortia of diverse organisations to address the key development challenges in the following priority thematic areas:
Working towards Global Security and Stability;
Achieving disability inclusion;
Promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Building civil society effectiveness ;
Tackling child labour and modern slavery;
Building open societies: protecting the space for free, plural and independent media;
Addressing lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender inclusion;
Supporting tolerance and freedom of religion or belief.

9. UK Aid Match programme UK Aid Match 2013-2016
£120 million funding committed
62 grants to civil society organisations
23 countries
Over 2 billion opportunities to view appeal and UKAM messaging
UK Aid Match II objectives
Reduce poverty in target countries through contributing to achieving the Global Goals
A wider and more diverse constituency of the UK public are engaged in international development and have a say in how UK aid is spent

10. UK Aid Direct
DFID’s central funding mechanism for awarding grants to small and medium sized UK and international civil society organisations working to reduce poverty overseas.
More than 200 grants have been awarded
36 countries.
Fund Manager: MannionDaniels.
Countries eligible:
the lowest 50 countries in the UN Human Development Index (HDI)
the countries the UK Department for International Development (DFID) considers to be of high or moderate fragility

11. Small Charities Challenge Fund
Open for applications
UK-based small civil society organisations with an annual income of less than £250k.
Funding up to £50,000
Information available