Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise

The Green and Inclusive Growth Centre of Expertise (GIG CoE) is intended to be one of five Economic Development Centres of Expertise (COEs) being established at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support delivery of the UK's new International Development Strategy. COEs will offer demand led and efficient mechanisms to access the best expertise in the UK and globally from multiple sources including from within FCDO and XHMG, to support economic development. Consistent with commitments in the Development White Paper on locally-led development, COEs should also include local suppliers and expertise as a core part of the COE offer - potentially twinned/partnered with UK/international expertise. As part of this, FCDO is designing a new programme - UK Centre for Green and Inclusive Growth (GIG). This aims to build directly upon the success of the following FCDO flagship programmes which currently make up the first phase of the GIG CoE: - The International Growth Centre (2018-2026) - Growth Gateway (2019-2026) - Manufacturing Africa (2017-2026) - Work and Opportunities for Women (2016-2025) GIG will aim to contribute to inclusive and sustainable poverty reduction, promote low carbon transformational growth and enhance world class research, analysis and expertise in target sectors: mainly manufacturing and services, and are likely to include agri-processing, green construction materials, textiles, electric vehicle production parts and assembly, environment-friendly packaging; and the services that complement these sectors and account for much of the value-add in the supply chain (e.g. design, logistics, e-commerce, and professional services). Focusing on these sectoral drivers of green and inclusive growth in the real economy has been shown by predecessor programmes to address a market failure in overcoming the binding constraints to green and inclusive economic growth (e.g. low private sector productivity, lack of responsible business practices, lack of inclusion - particularly women's economic empowerment). GIG will seek to support generating quality jobs, economic inclusion and especially women's economic empowerment, responsible business, and actions to drive green transitions as objectives across all its work. This is a Prior Information Notice and not a call for competition at this time. It is used to highlight to the market that we intend to reach tender stage in the future. This programme is currently working through the FCDO Business Case approvals process. Please register interest on the FCDO Portal: (https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html(project_10939)(pqq_1655). We are holding an online event on 12th June 2024 at 2pm, please register your intention to attend using the Market Survey: https://forms.office.com/e/PXsdYF0ZVj. This event will be used to give information at this time and we will also be seeking feedback to inform design of the programme delivery mechanisms.

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