Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 13
13
Not Addressed
Publish impact assessments for gender-specific programming cuts, no later than report response.
Recommendation
It is astonishing that the Government has made cuts to gender-specific programming without seemingly understanding the impacts on women and girls. The Government must publish impact assessments, as promised by the Minister, as soon as possible and no later than the response to this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 79) 35
Government Response Summary
The government's response outlines efforts to improve data collection and disaggregation for various humanitarian projects, but it does not address the recommendation to publish impact assessments for cuts to gender-specific programming.
Government Response
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HM Government
Not Addressed
75. The UK made a pledge on the statistical inclusion of forcibly displaced people at the Global Refugee Forum in 2023 and is supporting a wide range of projects to improve displacement-related data collection. 76. The UK contributes to the UN’s Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d), which is investing in new forms of data and analysis to help predict and prevent crises. The fund is supporting a range of organisations to improve the quality and availability of displacement-related data. 77. The UK is supporting the UN Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS), which is strengthening the capacity of national statistical systems to include displaced populations in their data. 78. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is also contributing to improved displacement-related data collection. It has developed tools to automate the detection of IDP shelters in Somalia to support improved collection of population data, including preparations for a potential population and housing census in Somalia - the first in 50 years. This data has already been used to support the GAVI Zero Dose vaccination programme, with potential for wider application. 79. ONS have also encouraged publication of a report on refugees based on Population and Housing Census data in Rwanda and will support the implementation of the 2025 Jordan Census Questionnaire to ensure IDP/ refugee/stateless persons inclusion. (Recommendation 10, Paragraph 103) To help determine a baseline and future targets, the FCDO should start systematically tracking and publishing official data on how much it spends on supporting refugees and internally displaced people overseas. Government response: Agree 80. The FCDO systematically tracks and reports data on how much it spends on supporting refugees to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which publishes this data online.2 The UK and other OECD member countries have also now extended this to include spending on IDPs. We would be happy to share a summary of this data with the IDC. (Recommendation 11, Paragraph 104) The FCDO should ensure that the UK and partners disaggregate monitoring and programme data by age, gender, ability and displacement status at a minimum; do so systematically; and make this data available publicly. Government response: Agree 81. The FCDO carries out evaluations to assess the impact of its programmes on vulnerable populations including refugees and IDPs. The FCDO and partner organisations do currently record data disaggregated by age, gender and ability. 82. While the FCDO does not currently record data disaggregated by displacement status, we will explore whether this can be implemented in a future iteration of our programme management system. 2 https://data-explorer.oecd.org/ vis?fs[0]=Topic%2C1%7CDevelopment%23DEV%23%7COfficial%20 Development%20Assistance%20%28ODA%29%23DEV_ ODA%23&pg=0&fc=Topic&bp=true&snb=27&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalCloud&df[id]=DSD_ CRS%40DF_CRS&df[ag]=OECD.DCD. FSD&df[vs]=1.4&dq=DAC..1000.100._T._T.D.Q._T..&lom=LASTNPERIODS&lo=5&to[TIME_ PERIOD]=false