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FCO funded projects in DPRK
Updated 1 April 2016
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| Programme Spend 30 September 2013 to 8 October 2015 | |||||||||
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| Project Title | Aditional Comments for context for FOI request | Project Description | Amount | Financial Year | Location | Measurable Outputs/outcomes | Rationale | Human Rights element | Not set |
| Asian Youth Disabled Games | Promoting disability rights | Support for DPRK participation in Asian Youth Disabled Games. | Final cost was: £2,568 | 2013 - 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Three athletes sent to event with them winning three silver medals (2 swimming and 1 table tennis) and a bronze medal (table tennis). Positive media reporting has increased interest in disabled sport. | Disability | Yes - Disability rights | Not set |
| DPRK English Teacher Trainer Development | Not set | To consolidate and expand on achievements over the last twelve years of the project through more targeted engagement with the present three institutions (Kim Il Sung University, Kim Hyong Jik University and Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies) and three newer institutions that focus on English language teacher training. | FCO contributes £200,000 to this British Council-led project; residual amount funded by the British Council | 2013 - 14 | Pyongyang | DPRK English language teachers and students given increased understanding of the UK, including British norms and values. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Security Think Tank exchange | Exposure to Western views | Security think tank exchange between DPRK International Affairs Institute (IAI) and UK Security Think Tank. | £1,674 | 2013 - 2014 | London | Relationship established leading to IAI fellowships in the UK that will expose IAI to wider range of views on their international posture. | Encouraging change / WMD | No | Not set |
| Scholarships | For students | To provide Chevening scholarships to students from ODA-eligible countries in the region, enabling them to pursue postgraduate study at UK higher education institutions, exposing them to UK practices, values and language. | £2,316 (23,160 Chinese Yuan Renminbi) | 2013 - 2014 | Pyongyang (English Language Tests) | Two students due to study international finance and management at Cambridge University. | Public Diplomacy/ Encouraging Change | No | Not set |
| Wonsan Primary School Orphanage | Not set | Rehabilitation of Orphanage school in Wonsan | £2,467 | 2013/14 | Wonsan | Students will have access to a better learning environment, be able to receive a better education and therefore have access to more opportunities later in life. | Vulnerable/Children | Humanitarian | Not set |
| English language and culture training course for DPRK officials | Not set | A customised course that focuses on improving DPRK officials’ English and showing them British practices, and values, in particular focussing on the health and welfare sectors. | £37,752 | 2013/14 | Canterbury and London | 5 junior/middle ranking officials more aware of British medical and health issues and initiatives | Encouraging change | No. However, increases understanding of best practices in health care outside DPRK and highlights deficiencies there. | Not set |
| COI costs for London visit | Not set | Visit to London by the UN Commission of Inquiry on the DPRK. | £5,238 | 2013/14 plus 2014-15, part of payment rolled over. | London | Contribution from BPB to costs of COI sessions in London. | Human rights | Yes - Support to human rights defenders | Not set |
| Study visit by MFA Political Desk Officers to London, UK Nov 2013 | Not set | Critical engagement: regular exchange with DPRK officials, (three on this occasion) on HMG policy and cooperation, including human rights and education. Increased understanding of UK policies and values within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | £6,079 | 2013/14 (payment rolled over into 2014/15) | London | Visit took place and officials exposed to British norms and values and institutions including human rights and proliferation | Encouraging change | Officials exposed to UK norms with visits to relevant institutions and challenged on DPRK human rights record | Not set |
| English language and culture training course for 10-12 DPRK officials | Not set | A customised course run by the private sector that focuses on improving DPRK officials’ English and showing them British practices, and values, in some key areas, e.g. mass media, judicial system and government policy | £41,367 | 2013-14 | Canterbury and London | 10 Junior/middle ranking officials more aware of British systems, including in areas of media, justice and education | Encouraging change | Yes. Increases DPRK understanding of how HMG fulfils its obligations to protect and promote civil and politcal rights in the UK. DPRK human rights issues raised during meetings at the FCO. | Not set |
| Provincial Development Workshops | Not set | To deliver education promoting international norms and standards to middle-ranking North Korean regulators and businesspeople involved in economic policy and potentially transformative policies and actions. | £5,783 | 2013/14 | Pyongyang and regions | This program of workshops seeks to take advantage of the DPRK’s increased interest in and commitment to Special Economic Zones as a road to development by providing training to regional officials and company managers. It will contribute to a greater awareness among DPRK actors for the need to adhere to international norms in both its financial and investment environment. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Financial Sector workshop | Not set | To partially fund the delivery of education promoting international norms and standards to North Korean regulators and business people leading on the delivery of potentially important economic change. | £7,058 | 2013/14 | Pyongyang and regions | A programme of workshops aimed at contributing to a greater awareness among DPRK actors for the need to adhere to international norms in both its financial and investment environment. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Exchange visit to the All Ears Cambodia Institute of Audiology and PEHC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia by KFPD staff | Not set | To provide an opportunity for key members of the KFPD program staff to visit a specialist medical unit with focus on ear and hearing health care. | £5,235 | 2013/14 | Cambodia | The exchange visit will play a significant role in building capacity towards understanding specialist service provision and clinic infrastructure and management. This will ultimately provide better scope for planning the development of parallel services in the DPRK towards the prevention, mitigation and treatment of ear disease and hearing loss in the people of the DPRK. | Health | Disability | Not set |
| Prepositioning of Relief Items for DPRK Red Cross Society | Not set | To equip the DPRK Red Cross Society (DPRK RCS) with response and relief items to enable it to take immediate action to help save lives in an emergency situation. | £97,699 | 2013/14 | Pyongyang and regions | Improved resilience and response to severe annual flooding in DPRK, complementing DPRK RCS’s other community-based sanitation and disaster risk reduction projects. | Health | Humanitarian | Not set |
| Language materials for UK section of Grand People's Study House | Not set | English language materials for Grand People’s Study House | £989 | 2013/14 | Pyongyang | Books delivered in 2014. Increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world | Encouraging change | Yes. Books included several specifiucally on human rights. | Not set |
| DPRK dialogue 2013 | Not set | To seek DPRK commitment to abandon missile/nuclear programmes and reduce proliferation; to enable increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world; and to develop increased access and engagement with DPRK across a wider range of policy areas. | £17,573 | 2013-14 | Pyongyang | Delegation participated in discussions with International Affairs Institute (KWP-affiliated) & Institute for Disarmament and Peace (MFA-affiliated). | Encouraging change/WMD | No | Not set |
| DPRK English Language Teaching and Training Project | Not set | To consolidate and expand on achievements over the last thirteen years of the project through more targeted engagement with the present six institutions and expansion of the project through engagement with four new institutions that focus English language teacher training. | £200,000 from FCO budget,to this British Council-led project, a residual amount funded by the British Council. | 2014 - 2015 | Pyongyang | DPRK English language teachers and students given increased understanding of the UK, including British norms and values. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| 2014 DPRK Nuclear Dialogue | Not set | To seek DPRK commitment to abandon missile/nuclear programmes and reduce proliferation; to enable increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world; and to develop increased access and engagement with DPRK across a wider range of policy areas. | £38,979 | 2014/15 | Pyongyang | Four-person Security Think Tank delegation travelled to Pyongyang and participated in discussions with the International Affairs Institute (KWP-affiliated) and Institute for Disarmament and Peace (MFA-affiliated). | Encouraging change/WMD | No | Not set |
| DPRK Nuclear Dialogue 2014 - Phase 2 | Not set | To seek DPRK commitment to abandon missile/nuclear programmes and reduce proliferation; to enable increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world; and to develop increased access and engagement with DPRK across a wider range of policy areas. | £34,857 | 2014/15 | London | Inward visit by DPRK delegation. | Encouraging change/WMD | No | Not set |
| English language and cultural training | Not set | English language and cultural training for DPRK officials | £49,407 | 2014/15 | Canterbury & London | Expose and increase awareness for 10-12 Junior / middle ranking officials of British systems, including in areas of media, justice and education. | Encouraging change | Increased understanding of civil and political rights. DPRK human rights record raised during meeting with HMG | Not set |
| Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Economics | Not set | To introduce to North Koreans how foreign investors and governments assess projects through cost-benefit analysis. Two Pojects | £7837 and £7472 = £15,309 | 2014/15 | Pyongyang and regions | Training to encourage DPRK to accept internationally accepted standards in economics and trade; Increased access and engagement with DPRK across wider range of policy areas; Increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| DPRK Inclusive disability activity | Not set | Support for an inclusive, combined sport and art activity in Pyongyang on the occasion of the National Day of People with Disability on 18 June, providing a rare opportunity for the promotion of human rights awareness at grass roots level in the challenging and insular environment of the DPRK. | £4,261 | 2014/15 | Pyongyang | Raise awareness on disability and inclusive society among the local, national and international community in DPRK and to encourage and highlight activities undertaken in the DPRK to promote the rights of disabled persons. | Raising awareness of human rights and minority rights | Yes | Not set |
| Pyongyang International Film Festival | Exposure to Western culture | Provide suitable British films to be shown at the Pyongyang International Film Festival | £182 | 2014/15 | Pyongyang | Films shown successfully. A large number of North Koreans directly exposed to cultures and influences from outside the DPRK. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Food processing project | To improve humanitarian nutritional situation | Improve food and nutrition status of rural population of Sangum Cooperative farm in Anbyon County, Kangwon Province | £,7471.61 (10,000 Euros) | 2014/15 | Sangum, Anbyon County, Kangwon Province | To see progress on issues of humanitarian concern: improved humanitarian situation due to effective delivery of UK and multilateral humanitarian aid. | Health | Humanitarian | Not set |
| Provision of equipment for physiotherapy unit | For the disabled | Provide equipment for a physiotherapy unit within a remote community in an isolated area of the DPRK | £3,650 | 2014/15 | North Pyongyan Province | Disabled persons in a remote communities have access to prosthetic equipment, physiotherapy and rehabilitation services/support. | Health | Humanitarian | Not set |
| Working in North Korea to connect its journalists to the Internet world | Not set | To give North Korean journalists an understanding of freedom of expression through teaching them Internet skills. HRDD funded. Project curtailed due to events. | £43,615 | 2014-15 | DPRK - Pyongyang | Freedom of expression (for which DPRK is a priority country, with its media being one of the most closed in the world). Increased exposure of North Koreans to the outside world, and increased access and engagement with DPRK across wider range of policy areas. | Encouraging change | Yes - Freedom of expression | Not set |
| Visit to UK by Europe Director General, MFA | Not set | To introduce the DPRK Director General responsible for European matters within the MFA to key figures within Whitehall and International organisations in London. | £6,165 | 2014-15 | London | Visit cancelled by DPRK. | Encouraging change | Visit was to include discussions on human rights issues | Not set |
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| DPRK English Teacher Trainer Development | Not set | To consolidate and expand on achievements over the last fourteen years of the project through more targeted engagement with the ten institutions that focus on English language teacher training. | £100,000 (Half of the FCO amount to this British Council-led project; residual amount funded by the British Council). | 2015-16 | Pyongyang | DPRK English language teachers and students given increased understanding of the UK, including British norms and values. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| English language and cultural training | Not set | English language and cultural training for DPRK officials | Not set | 2015-16 | Canterbury & London | Expose and increase awareness for 10-12 Junior / middle ranking officials of British systems and education. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Financial/Economic Training workshop | Not set | To encourage the DPRK to be more open with the outside world and to engage constructively with the international economic and political system. | Not set | 2015-16 | Pyongyang and regions | Enabling support for a pragmatic, positive demographic in DPRK society by supporting North Korea’s young, entrepreneurial class. | Encouraging change | No | Not set |
| Paekhak Dong kindergarten | For vulnerable children | Renovating the Paekhak Dong kindergarten following the floods in Rason City | Not set | 2015-16 | Rason | Renovated nursery for some of the most vulnerable in DPRK society | Vulnerable/children | Humanitarian | Not set |
| Provision of physiotherapy equipment for a regional hospital | For the disabled | Follow up project: Provide equipment for a physiotherapy unit within a remote community in an isolated area of the DPRK - targeted, small-scale support to the most vulnerable groups in the DPRK | Not set | 2015-16 | North Pyongyan Province | Disabled persons in a remote communities have access to prosthetic equipment, physiotherapy and rehabilitation services/support. | Health | Yes | Not set |
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