Democracy and Development in Burma - International Development Committee Contents


Appendix 1-Summary of DFID Burma programmes


Report Chapter Sub sector Budget for 2011-12 to 2014-15 (£m) Principal Programmes Operational Plan headline result
GovernancePublic financial management 3.8Accelerated Reform Facility - To strengthen long term reform by supporting immediate reform processes and reformers (often on an opportunistic basis), including public financial management through: assistance to the Government's public financial management reform strategy; and building civil society organisations' capacity to lobby on budget planning and transparency to help ensure that more of Burma's resources (including its natural resources) go to delivering high quality public services for its people.
Census 9.0UK support for the 2014 Burma Census - To provide recent and reliable data and analysis on the population of Burma for the government, international organisations, Burma civil society and private enterprises. This will change how development is targeted and how policy is designed, benefiting the poorest and most vulnerable people in Burma by 2015. Transparent data will help civil society to hold government to account.
Parliamentary strengthening 1.1Accelerated Reform Facility - To strengthen long term reform by supporting immediate reform processes and reformers (often on an opportunistic basis), including strengthening the work of parliament through: improving the Public Accounts Committee's capacity to scrutinise public spending; improving drafting of laws through provision of legal advice and expertise to the Bills Committee and the Attorney General's office, and training to the Burmese parliamentarians. ·  Political rights and civil liberties improve as measured by Freedom House
Civil society 8.0Burma Civil society Support Programme - To promote social and political change through bringing together coalitions of groups and individuals to address particular issues of social, political, economic or environmental concern. ·  
Kachin State 13.8Emergency Humanitarian Response for the Conflict Affected People-To improve access to humanitarian and livelihood support for 47,500 internally displaced people in Kachin State covering both Government and non-Government controlled areas that meet basic needs in line with accepted humanitarian standards.

Humanitarian support to Internally Displaced People (IDPs) - To alleviate the suffering of 34,000 displaced women, children and men in Kachin Special Region II through providing humanitarian assistance in the areas of food security, sanitation and health. Also to strengthen internally displaced people communities' capacity to manage health hazards and risks.

·  150,000 people affected by conflict receive humanitarian aid
Rakhine State 10.7Humanitarian Assistance - To improve access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene and nutrition treatment services, amongst the population affected by violence in Rakhine State.
Peace building 13.4Support for Conflict Affected People and Peace building - To meet the basic humanitarian needs of Burmese refugees and displaced people in conflict-affected border areas in Burma; and equip them with the knowledge and skills for return and reintegration to Burma.
HealthCommunity and maternal 45.8Three MDG Fund - To increase access to and availability of (i) essential maternal and child health services for the poorest and most vulnerable and (ii) HIV, TB, and malaria interventions for populations and areas not readily covered by the Global Fund.

Improving Maternal and Child Health After NARGIS - To deliver essential health and nutrition services in the townships most affected by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta region and documentation of lessons learned to inform future funding for health in Burma.

Primary Health Care Programme in Burma - To enhance the health status of poor minority communities, especially women of child bearing age and children under the age of 5, in three marginalised areas of Burma

·  153,000 unintended pregnancies are helped to be averted

·  500,000 women and men receive appropriate treatment to contain the spread of drug-resistant malaria

Malaria 17.6Addressing Drug Resistant Malaria in Burma - To improve access to high quality treatment for malaria by replacing malaria drugs containing only artemisinin (monotherapy) with those containing artemisinin with other effective malaria drugs (artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTs) in Burma.

Three Diseases Fund for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria - To reduce transmission and enhance provision of treatment and care for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria for the most needy populations.

Tackling drug resistant malaria - to prevent, diagnose and treat malaria particularly for people living in conflict-affected areas at high risk of drug resistant malaria along Burma's eastern border and vulnerable migrant workers in areas at high risk of drug resistance.

Education Basic education & education policy 5.7Primary Education Programme, - To improve access to, and quality of, basic education in Burma through reducing barriers to education, providing teacher training and school materials to improve lesson quality. ·  200,000 children are helped to complete primary school by 2015
Monastic and other state schooling 3.9Primary Education Programme, - To improve access to, and quality of, basic education in Burma, including: providing early childhood care and development services; helping monastic schools improve the quality of their education; and providing primary education for vulnerable out-of-school children in Kachin and Mon States.
EconomyEITI 1.0Accelerated Reform Facility - funding Burma's application to join the EITI and the Myanmar Development Resource Institute's Centre for Economic and Social Development to coordinate the application process; and funding for Revenue Watch Institute's work to improve the capacity of local civil society organisations to lobby on EITI issues. ·  110,000 more women have access to financial services to help them buy food, send their children to school and meet their medical needs

·  at least two development finance organisations to commit capital or attract private investment

Inclusive Growth Policy 0.8Support to the International Financial Institutions to conduct work on the economic opportunities and challenges - To increase evidence-based discussion between the UK, donors and key Burmese stakeholders on economic opportunities and challenges for Burma.
Responsible Investment 1.2Accelerated Reform Facility - To strengthen long term reform by supporting immediate reform processes and reformers, including: promoting responsible investment through establishing the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business which works with the private sector, government and civil society to provide practical advice on how business can be made more responsible in Burma.
Inclusive Investment 1.0Business Innovation Facility - To fund advice to companies about how they can adjust the way they do business in ways that create more jobs, opportunities, products and services for poor people-and it will do so in ways that ensure other companies in the same sector follow suit.
Rural Livelihoods and Food security 30.6Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund - To increase food availability and incomes of 1.5 million beneficiaries through a range of NGO implementing partners and programmes. These provide, for example, poor people with increased income through cash for work, skills training on and off the farm to increase agricultural production and/or income through petty trade, micro-credit to help people build up small business, and natural resource management to help people become more resilient to shocks
Microfinance and rural Markets 15.5Microfinance Services for Poor and Vulnerable People - To improve the food security and income levels for up to 234,500 of the most vulnerable and poor people in rural communities across Burma by providing over 46,900 households with access to an expanded rural credit and savings scheme
Agribusiness and Agri Infrastructure 0.7InfraCo Asia - To fund InfraCo Asia to stimulate greater private investment in infrastructure in Burma-to increase responsible private sector participation in sustainable infrastructure in poorer developing countries through increased flows of private capital & expertise


 
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