Gender Based Violence

(asked on 13th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of the UK’s Official Development Assistance was spent on projects tackling gender-based violence in each financial year since 2009-10.


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Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 20th May 2020

The UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) data is collected and reported in line with internationally agreed OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) definitions and standards. These standards include sector codes that are allocated to programmes.

In 2015, following lobbying by the UK and others, the DAC introduced a new sector code to improve the tracking of ODA that contributes to ending of violence against women and girls (VAWG). The UK started reporting on the new code for 2016 ODA spend. Before changes were made to our aid management platform in 2018, however, there were several technological barriers which meant that it was very difficult to track spend accurately.

Our Statistics on International Development: Final Aid Spend 2018 publication shows that we tracked £32.6 million bilateral aid on ending VAWG for 2018. We also estimated a further £12.4 million UK ODA was spent on ending VAWG through our partnerships with multilaterals. This amounts to 0.31% of UK ODA for that year.

We are doing more to improve the quality and transparency of our data on VAWG spend. For example, we are working to improve the way we track the impact of other sectoral programming, such as humanitarian, health, economic or education programmes that also contribute to ending VAWG, and which may not yet be fully captured as part of our published data.

We are also continuing to scale up our investment in tackling VAWG, for example our new £67.5 million programme What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale, is the largest investment by any donor government in programming and research to prevent VAWG globally.

Note: Imputed Multilateral Shares are estimates of how multilaterals spent the UK’s core contributions to multilaterals. For more detail on these estimates please see the ‘Statistics at DFID’ gov.uk page

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