The Department for International Development has confirmed today
(Thursday 11th October) the latest £20 million round of UK Aid
Match, inviting applications from charities working to achieve
sustained poverty reduction and to achieve the Global Goals, and
particularly encouraging proposals from wildlife and conservation
charities.
The announcement came as further evidence of DFID’s commitment to
spend its foreign aid budget on programmes that protect and
conserve the natural world as well as helping the world’s poorest
people.
International Development Secretary, said:
UK Aid Match gives the British public a chance to see the money
they donate to their most passionate development causes matched
pound-for-pound by the government.
We owe it to future generations for UK aid to work alongside
some of our most innovative and hard-working charities to
tackle the scourge of the illegal wildlife trade and protect
our natural environment. I want to encourage our partners to
look to UK Aid Match as a way of furthering their efforts to do
this and connecting with the British public.
To do so is a win for the public; a win for the world’s poorest
people; and a win for wildlife.
UK Aid Match brings charities, the public and UK government
together to collectively change the lives of some of the world’s
poorest people. It also gives the British public an opportunity
to engage with international development issues and have a say in
how UK aid is spent.
In the last five years, UK Aid Match has supported 42 charities
and run projects in 27 countries, which have benefitted more than
25 million of the world’s poorest people. The government has
matched every public donation made to these charities pound for,
helping them go further in changing and saving lives.
To find out more and apply for UK Aid Match please
visit: www.ukaidmatch.org.
Each charity appeal must run for up to three months and raise up
to a maximum of £2million, subject to a due diligence assessment.
NOTES TO EDITORS
- Applications for the next round of proposals opens on the 22
October and guidance will be available on the Aid Match website
from 12 Oct.
- UK Aid Match brings charities, the British public and the UK
government together to collectively change the lives of some of
the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
- It is designed to provide opportunities for the UK public to
engage with international development issues and have a say in
how UK aid is spent, whilst boosting the impact of the very best
civil society projects to reach the poorest people in developing
countries.
- For every £1 donated to a UK Aid Match charity appeal, the
government will also contribute £1 of UK aid, to help these
projects go further in changing and saving lives. UK Aid Match is
funded from the international development budget, for donations
made by individuals living in the UK.
- For more information on the fund, or to make an application,
please visit the UK Aid Match website
Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, London, 11-12 October 2018
- With over 1000 delegates, the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Conference will be the largest of its kind ever to be held. 84
countries have confirmed that they will be sending delegations,
spanning Africa (26); Americas (14); Asia and Oceania (17);
Europe (23) and the Middle East (4).
The conference will focus on three themes:
- Tackling the illegal wildlife trade as a serious organised
crime: strengthening law enforcement.
- Building coalitions: engaging the private sector, NGOs and
academia; harnessing technology and innovation.
- Closing markets for illegally traded wildlife products:
building on the Chinese ivory trade ban.
