Business

The Construction Ideas Fund will share financial risk with companies in Nigeria that have innovative ideas for projects to improve their businesses and support the fund’s core objectives

Construction Ideas Fund

The private sector is the engine of economic growth - creating jobs, increasing trade, providing goods and services to the poor and generating tax revenue to fund basic public services such as health and education.

Funding and partnership opportunities

Current funding opportunity.

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) offers grants on a competitive basis to private sector companies to support new and innovative business models in Africa. It is a private sector fund backed by some of the biggest names in development finance.

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)

Current funding opportunity.

The Business Innovation Facility helps the development and uptake of inclusive business models by companies in developing countries.

Business Innovation Facility (BIF)

Current funding opportunity.

The objective of PIDG is to encourage private infrastructure investment in developing countries that contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction.

Private infrastructure development group (PIDG)

Current funding opportunity

The Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) will make grants between £150,000 and £1 million available for partnerships that bring UK and European retailers and African farmers together.

The Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH)

Active fund (not currently open for funding applications).

The Responsible and Accountable Garment Sector (RAGS) Challenge Fund has been set up to support projects that are aimed at improving the working conditions in garment production industries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Responsible and Accountable Garment Sector Challenge Fund (RAGS)

Seeking to improve the performance of the non-state sector in delivering better healthcare to the poor

Harnessing non-state actors for better health for the poor

Promotes policies and practices that improve privately delivered health care for the poor in low and middle-income countries

The Center for Health Market Innovations

To accelerate the availability of effective vaccines at cost effective and sustainable prices

Advanced Market Commitments (AMC)

New private sector programme designed to raise US$ 260 million for immunisation

The GAVI Matching Fund

Offers grant payments to businesses which deliver outputs within the low carbon off-grid energy sector

Financing for Low Carbon Energy Access

Supports innovative projects which provide renewable energy and/or implement energy efficiency solutions in Southern and Eastern Africa

Energy and environment partnership programme

Supports the development of innovative ideas that promote renewable energy

IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

BCtA aims to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by challenging companies to develop innovative business models that offer the potential for both commercial success and development impact.

Business Call to Action (BCtA)

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

The Investment Climate Facility for Africa helps lower the cost of doing business in Africa and promote a better investment climate across the continent.

Investment Climate Facility for Africa

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

MeTA is an alliance of partners working to improve access to medicines by increasing transparency and accountability in the healthcare market.

Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

CoST explores how, using a multi-stakeholder approach, public construction projects could be made more transparent and accountable, reducing the mismanagement, waste and corruption that are common in construction.

Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST)

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a ground-breaking alliance of companies, trade unions and voluntary organisations. ETI work in partnership to improve the lives of workers across the globe who make or grow consumer goods - everything from tea to T-shirts, from flowers to footballs.

Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) is a means of frontloading aid flows and reducing volatility. This concept, pioneered by GAVI, converts funding pledges into AAA rated bonds that can be sold to boost short-term funding and provide a stable long-term financial platform.

International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm)

Opportunity for partnership for DFID-supported programme.

The United Nations Global Compact is an initiative for companies that are committed to integrating 10 corporate responsibility principles in their business operations and strategies.

The United Nations Global Compact