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Understanding start-up funding in East Africa: ‘Follow the Money’ and Analysing the ‘Valley of Death’ in the African context

Closed: The FCDO invited proposals by 3 October 2025 to conduct an in-depth analysis of start-up funding in East Africa, including Kenya and Tanzania.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Ethiopia and 4 others
Evidence Fund: evaluation draw-down service

Closed: the FCDO invited tenders by 23 August 2024 for a draw-down service to conduct project-level evaluations for the Evidence Fund.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Botswana and 18 others
Drivers of responsible business conduct in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid evidence assessment

Closed: The FCDO invited tenders by 29 March 2024 to conduct a rapid evidence assessment of the research literature on the drivers of responsible business conduct in low- and middle-income countries.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Botswana and 18 others
Women's rights and LGBT+ movements in Africa and Asia: a rapid scoping review

Closed: The FCDO invited proposals by 27 February 2024 to conduct a rapid scoping review of women’s rights and LGBT+ organisations countering the rollback of rights in Africa and Asia.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Botswana and 18 others
Thematic evaluation of Kenya’s job-creation programmes

Closed: The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) invited tenders by 7 February 2024 to evaluate job-creation programmes in Kenya.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Botswana and 18 others
Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution (SMEP) programme: reducing plastics pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (research and innovation) 2019 to 2024

Call for concepts to pilot innovative, investible, pollution mitigation concepts in East Africa, waste-to-energy inputs and intercepting by-products.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Ethiopia and 5 others
Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) programme

Closed: IDRC offers grants, funding, and awards to researchers and institutions to find solutions for global development challenges.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Algeria and 48 others
Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF)

FCDO’s centrally managed fund for small UK based not-for-profit organisations working with the poor, vulnerable and most marginalised.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Angola and 56 others
Foodtrade Eastern and Southern Africa Programme

Aims to catalyse innovative private sector investment to improve and develop regional staple food markets.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Kenya and 7 others
Technology Provider Registration for Frontier Technologies

Closed: Frontier Technologies is a programme designed to help FCDO apply frontier technologies to development challenges.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Bangladesh and 25 others
Transform

Closed: Transform was a partnership between FCDO and Unilever that pilots and tests innovative business models that meet low income household needs.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Bangladesh and 19 others
Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform

Closed: SPHEIR is an innovative higher education partnerships programme to strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions in FCDO priority countries.
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Bangladesh and 19 others
Logistics Innovation for Trade

To develop and test new ideas that reduce the cost and time of transport and logistics in East Africa. Open to businesses throughout the world that are operating, or will operate, in the East African Community (EAC).
- Fund state: Closed
- Location: Kenya and 3 others

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