Africa: Abortion

(asked on 13th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding from the public purse her Department has provided to organisations or individuals in African countries who support changes to regulatory policy on abortion services at a national level as part of her Department's programme Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancies in each year since 2011.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 23rd October 2017

The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme aims to increase access to family planning services, give women and girls more control over their lives, and reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion. Where national policies on abortion contribute to high levels of maternal death, our programme implementing partners may seek to raise awareness of these issues and support local efforts to achieve reform aimed at saving maternal lives. It is not possible to disaggregate spend on these activities specifically.

Since 2011, DFID has provided £99.8 million to the overall PMD programme which works across 17 countries.

The annual breakdown of spend is:

PMDUP/PMD Spend

2011-2012

8,033,548

2012-2013

11,520,953

2013-2014

16,653,663

2014-2015

21,219,931

2015-2016

17,700,570

2016-2017

16,557,743

April 2017

8,183,445

Total

99,869,853

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