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<p>UK and Southern Civil Society organisations (CSOs) are crucial partners for DFID
and play a critical role in ensuring UK aid reaches the most vulnerable in the global
response to COVID-19. UK charities, such as Christian Aid and Humanity & Inclusion,
are receiving funding to support vulnerable people around the world during the crisis.
We have allocated £18 million to charities through the Rapid Response Facility and
over £24 million through our partnership with Unilever.</p><p>A new UK Aid Direct
funding round has also been launched, some of which has been set aside for rapid access
by existing UK Aid Direct grant holders who are able to respond immediately to COVID-19.
As DFID’s country network adapts programming to respond to COVID-19, country teams
are considering how they can do this through partners, including through CSOs.</p><p>In
addition, DFID welcomes the vital role that NGOs will continue to play in service
delivery through multilaterals. UN agencies have undertaken a review of their existing
procedures related to partnership management and issued additional internal guidance
to simplify and expedite collaboration where appropriate. We will be working with
the UN and DFID’s country offices to increasingly better understand and track eventual
flows to NGOs in-country.</p>
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