LONDON - The responses to recent written parliamentary questions submitted by Baroness Tonge reveal DFID funding figures to SRHR.
"DFID takes an integrated approach to our programming on SRHR. The UK Government is delivering on the SDGs, reflecting them in its programme of work and integrating them into the Single Departmental Plan process. Between April 2018 and March 2019 alone, at least 23.5 million women and girls were reached with modern methods of family planning through our programmes, preventing 7.3 million unintended pregnancies, 2 million unsafe abortions, saving 8,300 women's lives and preventing the trauma of 89,000 stillbirths and 52,900 new-born deaths."
In 2016/17:
- DFID spent £307.2m directly targeting reproductive health.
- The UK Government made £40m contribution to UNFPA core funding and £208m to non-core funding
- DFID spent £27.1m directly targeting HIV and AIDS
- It is estimated that DFID spent at least 10.3% of its overseas development aid on SRHR.
Around 10% of UK ODA goes to SRHR as per IPCI ICPD recommendations.
