Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the proportion of the UK's Official Development Assistance which is allocated to women and girls in fragile or conflict-affected states.
Answered by Alistair Burt
In 2016, the UK provided a total of £2.3 billion of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) to countries/regions classed as fragile or conflict affected (FCAS) where gender equality was identified as by project teams either a significant or principal aim of the spend. This amount represented 27% of total UK bilateral ODA in 2016.
Table: Total (and percentage of) bilateral ODA in FCAS with a significant or principal gender equality marking, 2016
| Total ODA |
Gender equality (GE) marked projects in FCAS | |
Significant objective | £2.03bn |
Principal objective | £0.30bn |
Total GE marked FCAS projects | £2.33bn |
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Total UK Bilateral ODA | £8.54 bn |
Total GE marked FCAS projects as a % of UK bilateral ODA | 27% |
Source: OECD DAC ODA Statistics, 2016.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Development Assistance Committee gender equality policy marker has been used in this answer. The marker is a statistical indicator that is assigned to a project depending on the extent to which gender equality is a significant or main aim of the project. A significant marking means gender equality is an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the project; and a principal marking means gender equality is the main objective of the project.