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Development Aid: Gender Based Violence and Poverty

Answer

(a) It is not possible to identify all UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocated to projects related to poverty reduction from information FCDO holds. Expenditure on development assistance (as defined in the International Development Act 2002) requires Ministers to be satisfied that the assistance is likely to contribute to a reduction in poverty. There is no express requirement for consideration of a reduction in poverty for expenditure on humanitarian assistance, though in many cases humanitarian assistance may also contribute to poverty reduction.

Table 1 sets out total FCDO ODA spend and the amount spent on humanitarian assistance from 2019 - 2022. This is likely to be an underestimate of all UK ODA allocated to projects related to poverty reduction as it doesn't include any relevant ODA spend by other government departments.

Table 1: Estimated FCDO ODA spent on poverty reduction (£thousand)
	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total FCDO ODA	11,785,190	10,663,010	8,174,885	7,634,908
of which: ODA to humanitarian sector	1,526,136	1,523,982	737,272	1,086,403
Source: Statistics on International Development

(b)

Ending violence against women and girls overseas remains a top priority for the Government. Table 2 shows UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend on tackling violence against women and girls. This is likely to be an underestimate as some humanitarian and other sectoral programmes also work to prevent and respond to violence but are not captured in these figures.

Table 2: UK ODA to Sector Code 15180: Ending violence against women and girls, 2019 - 2022 (£ thousands)

	2019	2020	2021	2022
UK bilateral ODA to sector code 15180	47,096	35,556	27,572	75,106
Imputed UK share of multilateral Net ODA to sector code 15180	21,829	19,215	24,647	Data not yet available

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

890

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Development aid Poverty Gender based violence

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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