About
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) lead the United Kingdom’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation is proud to partner with the FCDO since 2011. This partnership is built on a strong foundation of mutual collaboration, a shared strategic objective to drive the clean energy transition while raising incomes and an ability to co-fund impactful programmes.
Shell Foundation is partnering with the FCDO on the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) platform and the Catalysing Agriculture by Scaling Energy Ecosystems (CASEE) programme. Both initiatives under the Ayrton Fund are focused on accelerating the scale up of innovative clean energy technologies and businesses in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
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Southeast Asia
Cross-sector collaboration needed to tackle social impact: panel
Crises present opportunities for philanthropy to step up and fill the gaps, panellists add
20th May 2026
Financial Solutions
Fostering Innovation
Mobilising Finance
Scale Partnerships
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Global
India
SIDBI, Shell Launch $3.1M Fund to Green India’s Smallest Businesses
As summer temperatures soar across India, food delivery platform Zomato has introduced a new initiative aimed at making working conditions…
06th May 2026