Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Harnessing Non-State Actors for Better Health for the Poor funding.

In August 2022, FCDO published a Project Completion Review of the Harnessing Non-State Actors for Better Health for the Poor that provides our assessment of the effectiveness of the programme. The Review was based on routine programme monitoring reports and findings from an independent qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the programme. Overall, the programme reached around two million poor people, resulting in averting an estimated 9268 maternal and child deaths, and lessons learnt throughout the programme were used by implementors to strengthen their programme approaches in collaboration with partners.