Embassy Project Activities
The British Embassy has a number of programmes designed to fund activities with Azerbaijani and international partners. These activities contribute towards the British Government’s International Priorities and the embassy’s own objectives.
The Embassy's Projects Officer is Anar Nagiyev (anar.nagiyev@fco.gov.uk)
The Strategic Programme Fund
The Strategic Programme Fund (SPF) - formerly the Global Opportunities Fund - was established in 2003 to support the Government’s international goals.
Our projects involve a range of stakeholders – from federal and state governments to civil society and NGOs – helping us reach out to new partners.
We have supported nearly 950 projects since 2003 ranging from climate change and energy, Afghan counter-narcotics and migration prograrmmes, to sustainable development, relations with the Islamic world and economic governance.
In the future we will focus our efforts more tightly on our main policy goals, which are to:
Counter terrorism, weapons proliferation and their causes
- reduce the risks to the UK and its interests overseas from international terrorism
- counter the proliferation of WMD materials and their means of delivery
- ensure effective controls on all weapons, and pursue disarmament, to reduce the risk of conflict
Promote a low carbon, high growth global economy
- build the political conditions to achieve climate security through a rapid transition to a low carbon economy
- manage geopolitical risks to the UK's energy security through open and competitive energy markets
- promote sustainable growth and reduced poverty and inequality
Prevent and resolve conflict
- effective conflict prevention, resolution, stabilisation and post-conflict reconstruction
- respect for good governance and human rights, building states' responsibility to protect their own citizens
- prevention of state failure and fragility
Develop effective international institutions, above all the UN and EU
- build a rules-based international system to meet the challenges of globalisation
- with a reformed UN at its core, promoting peace and upholding the rule of law
- incorporating emerging powers, encouraging them to play a constructive role
- supported by an EU that delivers for its citizens in response to global challenges.
Strategic Programme Fund (Human Rights and Democracy) – SPF (HRD):
The Human Rights and Democracy programme is part of the Strategic Programme Fund (SPF). By focussing one strand wholly on Human Rights and Democracy, the FCO expects to bring a more strategic and effective approach to its Human Rights project work. The overall objectives of the Human Rights and Democracy programme are:
- To promote human rights through contributing to progress on strengthening national and international human rights institutions, criminal justice, equality and abolition of the death penalty; and
- To support democratic governance and accountability processes.
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Strategic Programme Fund (Reuniting Europe)
The Reuniting Europe programme supports partner countries with the reforms necessary for EU accession or closer partnership with the EU.
Reuniting Europe helps deliver our vision of building an effective and globally competitive EU in a secure neighbourhood.
It does this by supporting EU enlargement and by helping European partner countries implement the reforms necessary for EU accession. It focuses, in particular, on:
• stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and the respect for and protection of minorities
• a competitive, functioning market economy.
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Strategic Programme Fund (Low Carbon, High Growth)
The FCO has launched a new programme to promote a move to Low Carbon, High Growth global economy. The fund seeks to achieve the following outcomes:
1. A visible and accelerated shift in investment initiated in the major economies towards low carbon.
2. Political conditions created for an equitable post-2012 agreement at the UNFCCC COP in Copenhagen in December 2009 of sufficient ambition to avoid dangerous climate change.
3. Risks to UK and EU energy security managed through more diverse and reliable external sources of supply and more efficient global consumption.
4. Increased international commitment to an open, stable and equitable low carbon global economy delivering higher standards of living.
The programme is the result of a merger of the old Climate Change and Energy and Economic Governance programmes. It covers climate security, energy security and economic reform project. For more information, please see the new programme strategy . SPF LCHG programme announces a new bidding round for FY 2008/09
Conflict Prevention Pool (CPP):
The Conflict Prevention Pool (CPP) was established on 1 April 2008. It replaces the former Global Conflict Prevention Pool and Africa Conflict Prevention Pool. The CPP brings together diplomacy, defence and development work, in an agreed strategy based on conflict analysis shared between FCO, Ministry of Defence and Department for International Development. All activity under the CPP is targeted at achieving the UK's overall intended outcome:
'A global and regional reduction in conflict and its impact, through improved UK and international efforts to prevent, manage and resolve conflict, and to create the conditions required for effective state-building and economic development'.
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Bilateral Project Programme
This Programme devolves funds from the FCO in London to Heads of Mission to be used to support post objectives. The programme gives the embassy the capacity to respond to opportunities to support activities directly connected with UK’s International priorities
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