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<p>The Department for International Development’s Rapid Response Facility (RRF) launched
a call for proposals on 7 April 2020 to help support the preparedness, mitigation
and response to COVID-19. DFID received 73 eligible applications of which 7 projects
were selected for funding. Other applicants were informed that their proposals were
not selected for funding in this round but, as with our broader COVID-19 humanitarian
funding, further RRF support would remain under review.</p><p> </p><p>The Rapid Response
Facility is only one of the mechanisms through which the UK government is directly
funding NGOs to respond to the challenges posed by COVID-19. For example, a round
of UK Aid Direct funding was opened for applications relating to COVID-19 and we have
announced that the UK will aid match the first £5 million of donations from the British
public to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) new COVID-19 Appeal. Furthermore,
NGOs are delivery partners for a very large proportion of DFID's activity.</p>
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