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Written Question
Afghanistan
Tuesday 6th January 2015

Asked by: Douglas Alexander (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department gives to the Afghan government to promote educational opportunities among women and girls in Afghanistan.

Answered by Justine Greening

DFID is providing £48 million through its Girls Education Challenge Fund to enable some 180,000 girls in some of the poorest rural and hard to reach areas of Afghanistan to have better access to a quality education.

In addition to this funding the UK supported the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), a World-Bank managed multi-donor fund, a proportion of which is used to support education.

In 2012/13 there were more than 2.5 million Afghan girls attending school compared to virtually no girls at school in 2001.