Case Study
UK Aid Match
Authors: Ilaria Bracco and Georgia Thorne
UK Aid Match has been developed by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO, formerly the United Kingdom Department for International Development) in partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) (ICAI, 2019). It launched in 2013, intending to bring “charities, British people and the UK government together to change the lives of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people” (UK Aid Match, n.d.). This funding mechanism is used in connection with UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and aims to give UK citizens a greater say in aid allocation, by matching public appeals with FCDO funding (Verbrugge & Huyse, 2020).