Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) funding and (b) other support his Department plans to provide to the Deris Wanaag programme; and whether his Department plans to allocate any Official Development Assistance to this programme.

The UK will provide £10 million of Official Development Assistance over 3 years to implement the Deris Wanaag, or Good Neighbourliness programme. This is a cross-border project seeking to enhance peace and stability and strengthen social and economic dynamics, in the border areas between Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. This programme was jointly launched by the Deputy President of Kenya, Ethiopian Minister for Peace, Federal Government of Somalia's Minister for Internal Security along with the British High Commissioner.