Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK funded aid projects to help relieve hunger in Uganda.

The UK provides humanitarian assistance in the Karamoja region and to refugee and refugee-hosting populations throughout Uganda through the 'Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response' (BRAER) programme. In financial year 2021-22, the programme helped to provide 1.3 million people with humanitarian assistance, including relieving hunger and treating malnutrition among women and children. The programme's effectiveness is assessed, and its spending monitored, through regular field visits, feedback from beneficiaries, FCDO scrutiny of implementing partners' financial reports, annual audits and annual programme reviews - the latter are published online at https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-205206/documents.