Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 21
21
Accepted in Part
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Ensure FCDO SRHR programmes include dedicated budget, targets, and disaggregated data for disabled people.
Recommendation
People with disabilities may face additional barriers to accessing SRHR programmes and providing services to people with disabilities may often take additional resources. Consequently, organisations implementing development programmes may be disincentivised from reaching marginalised groups as programmes are often required to show that they have reached as many recipients as possible. The FCDO should ensure that all SRHR programmes are accessible to people with disabilities. 44 The FCDO’s approach to sexual and reproductive health FCDO’s SRHR programmes should include a dedicated budget, baselines, targets, and key performance indicators so that people with disabilities are fully integrated into aid programmes. In addition, all FCDO programming on SRHR should record disaggregated data on aid recipients, including age, sex, and disability to assess how successful they are at inclusivity.
Government Response Summary
The FCDO partially agrees, committing to embed disability inclusion by 2030 and ensure new SRHR programmes like WISH Dividend disaggregate data, have targets, and dedicated budgets. However, they state it is not possible to disaggregate data for all SRHR programming due to complexity and data limitations.
Paragraph Reference:
80
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
Partially Agree 74. As committed to in the FCDO’s 2022 Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy, the FCDO has an ambition to embed disability inclusion across the full range of FCDO’s diplomacy, policy and programming, including SRHR, by 2030. 75. As part of these commitments, the FCDO is working towards ensuring that new SRHR programmes disaggregate data on aid recipients including on age, gender and disability, where this is possible, for example in the Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Dividend programme. 76. WISH Dividend will collect, analyse and report disability-disaggregated data using the Washington Group questions. The programme will also have clear targets and performance indicators that review access for people with disabilities to WISH D services. Budget will be made available to support provision of inclusive services. It should be noted however that designing, implementing and evaluating programmes that systematically address the barriers and respond to the requirement of people with disabilities in all their diversity is very complex. Further, in many contexts where WISH Dividend will be delivered it is challenging to set reliable baselines due to a lack of national data, poor definitions of ‘disability’ and weak public data systems. WISH Dividend will use learning and evidence generated from WISH to continue to adapt and strengthen the programme’s approach to disability inclusion, whilst generating learning that can be shared and applied by others, too. 77. It is not possible for the FCDO to disaggregate data by recipient for all SRHR programming. In some cases, our programmes support broader health systems, normative and policy change, or support other activities such as research where we do not focus on the number of recipients reached with our funding. In other cases, we rely on existing reporting mechanisms to measure progress and while we work to improve these systems, they are not always ready to report a full range of disaggregated data.