Improving the lives of women and girls overseas

DFID should:
a) develop and publish a plan for implementing its 2018 Strategic Vision, setting out key milestones and planned achievements in the short, medium and long term through to 2030;

b) put in place an action plan to tackle the barriers it has identified to the successful implementation of its interventions to tackle social norms;

c) periodically review other government departments’ and its international partners’ contribution to the implementation of its 2018 Strategic Vision to identify opportunities for its own influencing work and for collaborative activity;

d) put in place an action plan to tackle the barriers to mainstreaming gender issues it has identified;

e) regularly review the accuracy of its application of the gender policy marker, to make sure its actions for improvement will lead to a better understanding of its spending on programmes with a gender equality focus; and

f) (complementing material it publishes through the Single Departmental Plan and the Annual Report and Accounts) publish, every two years, a short report setting out its progress against its 2018 Strategic Vision and towards the Sustainable Development Goals relevant to gender equality.