Overseas Aid

(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many organisations headquartered (a) in Scotland and (b) elsewhere in the UK have (i) applied for and (ii) been awarded funding through the UK Aid Match Scheme in each year since that scheme was introduced.


Answered by
Justine Greening Portrait
Justine Greening
This question was answered on 2nd June 2015

The number of applications for each year of the scheme is presented in the table below and separated by headquarter location.

Round / Year

Headquarter of Organisation

Applied

Successful

Pilot: 2011-12

Scotland

0

0

Elsewhere in the UK

18

18

Interim: 2013

Scotland

1

0

Elsewhere in the UK

16

6

Round 1: 2013

Scotland

0

0

Elsewhere in the UK

31

11

Round 2: 2014

Scotland

2

2

Elsewhere in the UK

39

12

Round 3: 2014

Scotland

2

0

Elsewhere in the UK

28

9

Round 4: 2015

Scotland

3

TBC

Elsewhere in the UK

38

TBC

To increase awareness and encourage applications from organisations headquartered in Scotland, DFID and NIDOS (the Network of International Development Organisations in Scotland) ran a workshop for NIDOS members interested in applying for UK Aid Match funding in Glasgow on 21 May 2014. In addition, a ‘DFID Direct’ event, sharing information on DFID funding schemes for civil society organisations, was held in Glasgow with the Minister of State for International Development, Desmond Swayne MP, on 26 February 2015.

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