Funding round
November 2016
Eligibility
Type
of grant
Community
partnership
Impact
Type
organisations
welcome to apply
Available to notfor-profit groups
that are registered
in the UK.
Available to notfor-profit groups
that are registered
in the UK, in one
of the lowest 50
HDI countries or
in a country that
DFID considers to
be high or
moderate fragility
Org. income
requirements
The organisation must
have an average income
of less than £1,000,000
per annum for the past 3
years, as shown in
approved organisational
accounts.
The applicant
organisation must have
an average income of less
than £10m per annum for
the past 3 years.
Max. funding
available /
grant
Duration
of grant
Up to £250,000
per grant
£250,001£4 million per
grant
Match funding
requirements
Max. no.
of live grants /
org.
Up to 3 years
No match funding
needed
Max 2 live grants
per organisation
Up to 5 years
At least 25%
match funding
needed
Max 3 live grants
per organisation
Note that for ‘formal consortia’ eligibility requirements related to average annual income are included in the pdf guidance for this slide.
Grants available and where they are to be implemented
Community
partnership
grant
Small grants
focused on
delivering results
at a smaller /
community level
scale
Impact grant
Large grants for
initiatives focused
on bringing
tangible results at
scale
To be implemented in the
lowest 50 countries in the
UN Development Index
(HDI) (see here) and in
countries DFID considers to
be of high or moderate
fragility
Timeline
Indicative deadlines:
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Deadline for concept note submission - 31 January 2017
Assessment of concept notes 1st to 23 Feb
Moderation of concept notes 23 Feb to 10 March
Applicants invited to next round - full application process 13 March
Webinars on how to fill out the full application form 15 March
Full application window open 13 March to 18 April
Full application review period 18 April to 17 May
DFID assessment and approval process 18 May to mid June
Notification of full application outcome mid-2017
Review process
• Concept notes reviewed by experts in their sector (s)
• Concept notes are scored against a set of criteria
• Scored concept notes are moderated by DFID and MD
• Moderated concept notes are sent to DFID country offices
• Those approved are then asked to submit a full application
• Full application development period is being considered
• Guidance and support will be given for full application writing
• Full applications are assessed by an independent panel of experts
Current application statistics
• 612 applicants have started the application process, but not yet completed the eligibility check
• 236 applicants are eligible but the concept notes have not yet been started
• 334 concept notes in total already started
• 15 concept notes submitted; 3 CP and 12 Impact
• Almost double the interest in impact grants than community partnership grants
• Of the concept notes that have been started or submitted:
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40 concept notes classified as coming under ‘Peace’
69 concept notes classified as coming under ‘Resilience’
77 concept notes classified as coming under ‘Prosperity’
204 concept notes classified as coming under ‘Poverty’
Focus of the UK Aid Direct current funding round
The focus for this funding round is to support civil society towards achieving the Global Goals,
focusing on the most vulnerable and marginalised populations, in particular girls and women, to
‘leave no one behind’
During this round, applicants should consider how projects will directly tackle poverty and respond to
one or more of the four UK Department for International Development (DFID) strategic objectives
(click here to view DFID's Departmental plan):
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Strengthening global peace, security and governance
Strengthening resilience and response to crisis
Promoting global prosperity
Tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable
Focus of the UK Aid Direct current funding round
UK Aid Direct welcomes all applications that tackle poverty by addressing the Global
Goals, and would expect that some successful proposals will focus on the following
areas:
• Addressing the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition among children under 5
years and adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (including those who are pregnant
or breastfeeding). See the DFID Nutrition Results
• Supporting DFID’s commitment to enable 24 million additional women and girls to gain access
to family planning between 2012 and 2020, using rights-based, voluntary approaches
• Supporting the UK’s commitment to work together to stamp out modern slavery worldwide.
Tackling modern slavery makes an important contribution to achieving DFID’s strategic
objectives
What approaches are welcomed by the fund
• Developing and using partnerships to promote greater accountability
• Demonstrating partnerships with youth as agents and advocates for change
• Strengthening the ability of existing and new advocacy actors to enable decision makers to be held
to account
• Improving access, supply and quality of basic services
• Showing positive behaviour change in targeted groups as a result of the interventions
• Demonstrating increased opportunities for economic empowerment through job creation, income
generation and improving market access
• Strengthening the response to conflict and local-level crisis to improve resilience in fragile and
conflict-affected states
UK Aid Direct Theory of Change
Online application
• 5 sections: Introduction, organisational details, proposed project, results and financial details
• Additional documents for upload: Theory of Change, Annual Audited Accounts for the last three
years, and Concept note budget (template available in question 5.3)
• Preview application function
Section 1 - content required
• Project name
• Project description:
Problem you aim to address, where and who
will benefit?
The strategy you intend to apply to address it
and why?
• Duration of project
• Organisation name
• History of funding with DFID
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Section 2 – organisational details
• Straightforward section requiring your organisational details
• Most questions are multiple choice from drop-down menus
• You can select more than one response for some of the questions
(e.g. type of organisation international NGO and faith based organisation)
• Formal consortia versus partnerships
Section 3 - describing your project
The reviewer will need to be able to understand:
• Where your project will work
• What problem your project is trying to address
• What your understanding of the problem is in context
• What and how you propose to address the problem in context
• How your project fits with the UK Aid Direct’s theory of change
Section 4 - what results do you intend to achieve?
• At outcome level?
• Using what approaches?
• Applying what theory of change?
• For how many and what type of primary and secondary beneficiaries?
• At impact level?
• Applying VFM principles?
• Promoting sustainability of your project’s impact?
Section 5 – financial details
• Project budget
• Due diligence (financial management assessment)
• Risk and mitigation
• Annual income
• Three most recent sets of audited accounts