Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 2
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Accepted
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Back up FCDO's renewed commitment to SRHR with consistent and long-term funding
Recommendation
The Committee welcomes the FCDO’s recent policy statements which have renewed the FCDO’s commitment to SRHR. To turn words into action, this should be backed up by consistent and long-term funding.
Government Response Summary
The FCDO agrees that consistent and long-term funding is necessary, highlighting ongoing long-term partnerships, renewed funding of £80m to the Global Financing Facility, and the next iteration of the Reproductive Health Supplies programme until 2030.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Agree 10. The FCDO agrees with the Committee that consistent and long-term funding is necessary to deliver on the FCDO’s SRHR commitments. The FCDO remains committed to many long-term partnerships and investments on SRHR, with multilateral partners, non-governmental organisations and partner governments. The FCDO works with these partners to achieve sustainable change, and over time to reduce reliance on UK funding, bringing in other donors and wider funding sources. 11. For example, the Prevention of Maternal Death from Maternal Pregnancy programme (PMDUP), the Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) programme and its successor WISH Dividend represent over 15 years of continual UK investment in SRHR in Africa. This has enabled delivery partners to sustainably expand their footprint and service delivery support offer for the long term and ensured regular capacity building support to governments. 12. At the World Health summit in October last year, the FCDO announced £80m of renewed funding to the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) from 2025 to 2030. The FCDO has been supporting the GFF to improve women and children’s health since 2017. 13. Similarly, The FCDO’s Reproductive Health Supplies programme has helped improve the availability, quality, supply and access to key reproductive health commodities since 2019. The UK also supported a similar earlier programme with UNFPA. The FCDO is currently working on the next iteration of this programme, which will likely run until 2030.