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Programme spend human rights NGOs FOI ref 0073-14
Updated 9 July 2014
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| Project Title | Project Description | Amount | Financial Year | Location | Measurable Outputs/outcomes | Rationale | Human Rights element |
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| Visit by UK renewable energy expert to DPRK | Korean Workers Party hosted visit to the DPRK by a hydro power expert leads to better understanding of DPRK potential for utilising renewable energy. | £4,578 | 2011 - 2012 | Pyongyang and regions | Analysis of energy developments in the DPRK and recommendations for improvement. | Energy | No |
| Improving nutrition in Hoichang, Kumchon and Singye | To improve the health and nutritional status of the vulnerable populations in Hoichang, Kumchon and Singye counties in South Pyongan and North Hwanghae Province through provision of food processing equipment. | £4,608 | 2011 - 2012 | Hoichang, Kumchon and Singye | 3,078 children at nurseries, kindergartens and primary school and 230 hospital patients supplied with 100mls of soybean milk per day. | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Sign language training in 3 DPRK provinces | To improve ability of deaf people to participate fully in DPRK society by spreading and promoting the use of sign language. | £2,075 | 2011 - 2012 | Songchon, Hamhung, Pyongsong | 30 participants in each of three cities trained for 1 month, improving their ability to use and teach sign language. | Disability | Yes - Disability rights |
| DPRK English Language Teaching and Training Project | To consolidate and expand on achievements over the last ten years of the project through more targeted engagement with the present three institutions (Kim Il Sung University, Kim Hyong Jik University and Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies) and expansion of the project through engagement with three new institutions that focus on English language teacher training. | £255,721 (£200,000 from FCO, rest from British Council) | 2011 - 2012 | Pyongyang | DPRK English language teachers and students given increased understanding of the UK, including British norms and values. | Encouraging change | No |
| Pilgrims - Study visit of 10 DPRK officials to UK | 10 DPRK officials improve their capacity as well as knowledge of UK practices, values and language by attending four weeks of English language/culture training in the UK. | £34,735 | 2011 - 2012 | Canterbury | 10 junior/middle ranking officials more aware of British systems, including in areas of media, justice and education. | Encouraging change | Increases understanding of civil and political rights. DPRK human rights record raised during meetings with HMG. |
| Study visit by Korean Workers Party officials to UK | Visit to the UK by three members of the KWP leads to greater understanding within the party of alternative political systems. | £6,500 | 2011 - 2012 | London and Bristol | Improved understanding of UK political system through meetings with representatives of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Parties, as well as with the DPRK APPG. | Encouraging change | DPRK Human Rights record raised during meetings. |
| Training on spinal injury rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville Hospital | A study trip for key DPRK rehabilitation experts and an official from the Korean Federation for the Protection of the Disabled to transfer knowledge and understanding about improving spinal cord injury care to DPRK. | £12,605 | 2011 - 2012 | Buckinghamshire | Difficult to assess extent of impact but participants are involved in introduction of rehabilitation, rather than just surgery, for spinal injuries, and development of new Pyongyang rehabilitation centre. | Disability Rights | Yes - Disability rights |
| Water Pump for Pyongsong Orphanage | Improving access to clean water for children at an orphanage in Pyongsong through provision of a new water pump. | £4,185 | 2011 - 2012 | Pyongsong | Clean water supply to orphanage. | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Study visit by Political Desk Officers to London - July 2011 | Study visit by three political officers from the DPRK MFA to increase understanding of UK policies and values within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | £7,658 | 2011 - 2012 | London | 3 MFA officials engaged with on issues of direct interest to HMG, including human rights and proliferation. | Encouraging change | Officials challenged on DPRK human rights record |
| Scholarships | To provide Chevening scholarships to students from ODA-eligible countries in the region, enabling them to pursue postgraduate study at UK higher education institutions, exposing them to UK practices, values and language. | £19,970 | 2011 - 2012 | Cambridge | Postgraduate study at UK Higher Education institutions for students/ officials with leadership potential leading to greater awareness of international systems. The two scholars went to University of Cambridge. One studied education and pedagogy. The other international law and business administration. | Public Diplomacy | No |
| Institute of Disarmament and Peace (IDP) visit to International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)for conference on North Korea | Increased DPRK understanding of external view of DPRK Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes. | £654 | 2011 - 2012 | London | DPRK officials attended international conference at IISS and informed about external view of DPRK WMD programmes. | Encouraging change/ WMD | No |
| DPRK English Language Teaching and Training Project | To consolidate and expand on achievements over the last eleven years of the project through more targeted engagement with the present three institutions (Kim Il Sung University, Kim Hyong Jik University and Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies) and expansion of the project through engagement with three new institutions that focus on English language teacher training. | £202,012 (£200,000 FCO budget, rest from British Council) | 2012 - 2013 | Pyongyang | DPRK English language teachers and students given increased understanding of the UK, including British norms and values. | Encouraging change | No |
| Support for DPRK participation in Paralympic Games | To assist DPRK's efforts to participate in their first Paralympic Games by supporting an athlete's attendance at a Paralympic qualifying event in Berlin. | £3,772 | 2012 - 2013 | Berlin | DPRK athlete qualified for the Paralympic Games for the first time, raising the profile of disability rights in the DPRK. | Disability | Yes - Disability rights |
| Support for vegetable greenhouse production for children in institutions of care, South Hamgyong | To contribute to the nutritional requirements of children and other vulnerable groups in at least 44 institutions of care in Jongpyong and Yonggwang counties by improving access to a diverse range of vegetables. | £4,035 | 2012 - 2013 | Jongpyong and Yonggwang County, South Hamgyong Province | Improved nutrition to 11,612 children in care | Child Health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Support for two farms providing fish for children’s consumption in Sinhung and Yonggwang, South Hamgyong Province. | To improve the efficiency and sustainability of fish production in children's care institutions in Hamhung and Sinhung. | £2,383 | 2012 - 2013 | Sinhung and Yonggwang, South Hamgyong Province | Two fridges provided that give 13,108 children access to fish outside the production season. | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Emergency Action - Singye County Town (North Hwanghae Province) | To provide emergency aid in Singye County Town in North Hwanghae Province to one primary school, one kindergarten and one nursery school. | £4,035 | 2012 - 2013 | Singye County of North Pyongan | Usable building and sanitation system for one primary School (1316 children + 38 teachers + 10 staff), one kindergarten (327 children + 28 teachers + 5 staff), and one nursery school (320 children + 24 teachers + 7 staff). | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Pilgrims English language and culture training course for 10 DPRK officials | 10 DPRK officials improve their capacity as well as knowledge of UK practices, values and language by attending four weeks of English language/culture training in the UK. | £37,762 | 2012 - 2013 | Canterbury | 10 junior/middle ranking officials more aware of British systems, including in areas of media, justice and education. | Encouraging change | Increases understanding of civil and political rights. DPRK human rights record raised during meetings with HMG. |
| Political Desk officers visit to London | Study visit by political officers from the DPRK MFA to increase understanding of UK policies and values within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | £10,144 | 2012-13 | London | 3 MFA officials engaged with on issued of direct interest to HMG, including human rights and proliferation. | Encouraging change | Officials challenged on DPRK human rights record |
| Scholarships | To provide Chevening scholarships to students from ODA-eligible countries in the region, enabling them to pursue postgraduate study at UK higher education institutions, exposing them to UK practices, values and language. | £26,126 | 2012 - 2013 | Cambridge | Ongoing costs for scholars arriving in the previous year and returning home after academic studies end in the current year. | Public Diplomacy | No. |
| Project Spend - Greenhouse - Samri Unryul County, South Hwanghae | To improve the health and nutritional status of children at a kindergarten in Unryul County. | £4,092 | 2012 - 2013 | Samri Unryul County, South Hwanghae | 160 children between 5-6 year old in the kindergarten in Samri, 15 staff members of the kindergarten benefit from year round supply of fresh fruit and vegetables | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| EUPS Unit 7 - Teaching aids to 3 blind schools | Provision of teaching aids to blind schools in South Phyongan, South Hamgyong and South Hwanghae. | £4,296 | 2012 - 2013 | South Phyongan, South Hamgyong and South Hwanghae | Equipment available and in use by 186 students and 85 teachers and staff at the three schools | Education | Yes - Disability rights |
| EUPS Unit 7 - Motorcycles for Songrim Rehabilitation Centre | EUPS Unit 7 - Motorcycles for Songrim Rehabilitation Centre. | £6,444 | 2012 - 2013 | Songrim & Sariwon, North Hwanghae Province | Five motorbikes available that are driven by 10 disabled riders and provide transport for 800 patients who use rehabilitation per year | Disability | Yes - Disability rights |
| Kumchon food processing equipment bilateral programme budget project | To improve the health and nutritional status of the vulnerable populations in Kumchon county through provision of food processing equipment. | £8,638 | 2012 - 2013 | Kumchon | 4,200 families (14,500 people) receiving improved nutrition | Health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Project Payment - EUPS Unit 4 - German Agro Action - Windmill Project | Windmill Water Pump for facilities at Kindergarten in Samri, Unryul County. | £8,051 | 2012 - 2013 | Samri Unryul County, South Hwanghae | 160 children between 5-6 year old in the kindergarten in Samri, 15 staff members of the kindergarten benefit from clearn water (as well as animals and plants on the kindergarten compound) | Child health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Rights to BBC Sherlock Holmes Series | British film shown at Pyongyang International Film Festival. | £287.33 | 2012 - 2013 | Pyongyang | Film shown at Film Festival | Encouraging change | No |
| Research on the implementation of DPRK's obligations in the area of Women's Rights (including women with disabilities and mothers of children with disabilities) | To assist the international community prepare recommendations for the 2014 DPRK UPR and CEDAW Review by assessing positive and negative changes in women’s rights in DPRK since the 2010 UPR. | £9,218.00 | 2012 - 2013 | ROK - surveys and interviews with North Korean refugees | Publication of the report with media coverage. Fed into the UN Commission of Inquiry process and shared with various audiences in Geneva in run up to the DPRK's next UPR. Intention more countries decide to support UN resolutions - to be determined from voting records in due course. | Women's Rights | Yes - Women's rights |
| Capturing the stories: documenting torture in North Korea. | Evidence of torture and ill-treatment of DPRK defectors is properly documented by ROK human rights NGOs and reported to the UN. | £5,604.00 | 2012 - 2013 | ROK | A Korean translation of The Torture Reporting Handbook, 250 copies printed and 50 USB sticks. UN bodies have more reports they can use to document torture and violations. | Human Rights | Yes - Support to human rights defenders |
| Hospital water supply rehabilitation | EUPS Unit 3 - Rehabilitation of hospital water supply system in Singye County Town (North Hwanghae Province). | £14,280 | 2013 - 2014 | County People's Hospital, Singye County town, Singye County, North Hwanghae Province | Clean water supply and improved sanitation for 270 and 2700 inpatients and outpatients (per month), 146 doctors, 28 nurses, 26 support staff and 386 residents in less developed area of town. | Health | Yes - Humanitarian |
| Asian Youth Disabled Games | Support for DPRK participation in Asian Youth Disabled Games. | £5,368 | 2013 - 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Three athletes sent to event with them winning three silver medals (2 swimming and 1 table tennis) and a bronze medal (table tennis). Positive media reporting has increased interest in disabled sport. | Disability | Yes - Disability rights |
| National disabled table tennis tournament | Table tennis tournament to support International Disability Day. | £4,164 | 2013 - 2014 | Pyongyang | Tournament held and reported in local media, which adds momentum to push for treating disabled as normal members of society and, hopefully, ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities later this year. | Disability | Yes - Disability rights |