Developing Countries: Females
(asked on 13th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to programmes to increase access to education by women in each year since 2010.
Figures for DFID Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) spend on education with a significant or principal focus on gender per year since 2010 are provided in the table below. Figures for 2017 will be published at the end of November 2018.
DFID Education Bilateral ODA that has a significant focus on Gender Equality by year (figures given in thousands) | |||||||
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Significant | £164,198 | £269,394 | £274,032 | £461,825 | £458,385 | £ 313,465 | £579,048 |
Principal | £79,233 | £73,577 | £110,881 | £109,422 | £117,990 | £102,493 | £90,191 |
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Total spend: | £243,431 | £342,971 | £384,912 | £571,247 | £576,375 | £415,958 | £669,239 |
Source: OECD DAC ODA Statistics. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Development Assistance Committee (DAC) 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.