Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what mechanisms his Department has in place to assess the conflict-sensitivity of humanitarian and development assistance funded by UK multi-lateral and non-government agencies.

FCDO places importance on ensuring humanitarian and development assistance is conflict sensitive. Conflict sensitivity advice is provided across FCDO by conflict technical advisers. In relation to assistance provided through multilateral organisation, the UK funds the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the UN Peacebuilding Fund to place specialist Peace and Development advisers in-country responsible for driving conflict sensitivity in practice. The UK encourages all institutions to take conflict sensitivity seriously as reflected in the World Bank and the IMF Fragility Conflict and Violence strategies. FCDO funds initiatives, for example in Sudan, South Sudan, Lebanon, Yemen and Myanmar which increase coordination in the delivery of conflict sensitive aid.