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Dept for International Development

Answer

Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the aid and advice currently provided by her Department to countries which have street children. [18968] Mr. Foulkes: As most of Department for International Development's (DFID) bilateral projects cover the wider population it is not possible to isolate expenditure on specific target groups within them. Although data may be readily available for projects designed specifically for children, expenditure on all areas which impinge on children cannot be separated from more general expenditure. DFID is currently supporting the following non-governmental projects aimed at assisting street children through our Joint Funding Scheme (JFS): _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Agency Country Project name 1996-97 1997-98 1999-99 1999-20 Childhope Brazil Judicial and £13,714 £30,713 £30,745 £30,779 Institutional Protection of Child and Adolescent Childhope Brazil Projeto Ibeji 33,062 50,636 49,132 49,744 for the Streetchildren Childhope Philippines Development of 34,920 19,275 -- -- Education in the Street Homeless International India Support for 21,812 21,869 22,351 -- Street Children International Childcare Kenya Street 36,250 30,227 35,352 -- Trust Children's Project International Children's Ecuador Street Children 85,500 86,200 99,000 -- Trust of Guayaquil Jubilee Action Brazil Street Girls' -- 86,247 61,239 44,911 Education, Training Centre and Residential Home Teeside Council for Peru Care, Education 13,272 30,451 -- -- Voluntary Service etc for Street Children Toybox Charity Guatemala The 18,822 19,055 -- -- Tower-- Rehabilitation Centre for Streetchildren £257,352 £378,713 £297,819 £125,434 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Funding has also been provided to those agencies which receive block grants through the JFS in support of a variety of street children initiatives in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

302 c238-9W; 18968

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Children Development aid Bilateral aid Homelessness India Ethiopia Bangladesh Rwanda Brazil Kenya Tanzania Peru Guatemala Ecuador Philippines Joint funding scheme