Global Development Delivery (GDD) Framework

Covering call-downs between £7m and £100m in value, the High Value (HV) lots of FCDO’s flagship Global Development Delivery (GDD) framework span the different thematic areas within which FCDO works.

Cowater is on the following GDD HV lots:

• Lot 1: HV Climate and Nature. Covers climate, biodiversity and associated environment issues of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, including low carbon growth and mitigation, climate resilience and adaptation, and the protection, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity which underpins ecosystem services and protects and the natural environment.
• Lot 3: HV Education, Gender and Social Inclusion. Covers Education (including systems strengthening and delivery of education opportunities in crises), Gender Equality (including work on ending gender-based violence, promoting the empowerment of women and girls, gender equality mainstreaming, social norms and behaviours, and support to civil society actors), as well as Social Inclusion (social and political analysis, poverty and vulnerability monitoring and analysis, social protection, inclusive and participatory decision-making processes).
• Lot 4: HV Economic Development and Trade. Covers economic development and trade, as well as green cities and infrastructure, financial services, and green and inclusive growth.
• Lot 6: HV Research. Covers programmes delivering technical advice and expertise to implement high quality research programmes.
• Lot 7: HV Governance and Conflict. Covers work on Political Economy Analysis, Accountable and Inclusive Political Systems and Open Societies, Public Sector Governance and Service Delivery, Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finance, Security, Justice and Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (including conflict and atrocity prevention; negotiations and peace processes; stabilisation and early recovery), Addressing legacies of armed conflict, Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, Women Peace and Security, Responding to Violent Extremism, Conflict, Climate, Environment and Natural Resource Management, and Conflict, Data and Technology.

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