About UK PACT

We finance projects supporting partner countries eligible for Official Development Assistance (ODA) to implement and increase their ambitions for carbon emission reductions in line with their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). All UK PACT projects work to accelerate partner countries’ transition to low carbon development in alignment with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

UK PACT delivers impact through a combination of grant funding for longer term technical assistance and the rapid mobilisation of short term expertise for skill-shares and secondment opportunities.

UK PACT is a capacity-building and technical assistance programme. We fund projects that improve our partner countries’ capacity and capability to design and implement low carbon policies, address the barriers and constraints to clean growth and pursue greater low carbon ambition. Funding can be allocated to feasibility studies, policy and regulatory analysis, and technical skill-shares of specialist expertise to partner countries.

UK PACT is demand-driven. Our projects respond directly to demand identified by partner governments across strategic areas by providing grants to implementing partners (such as NGOs, businesses and academia). Our partners are selected for their potential to deliver capacity-building support to address the priorities identified by governments.

UK PACT operates across multiple strategic sectors. We help build the capacity of our partner countries in some of the strategic areas they have identified for the low carbon transition of their economies. The breadth of the UK PACT project portfolio covers diverse sectors such as green finance, forests, clean energy and energy efficiency and sustainable transport.

The programme meets the demand for high quality skills and expertise aligned with UK leadership and experience.