Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of its investment in the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund on the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund.

DFID assesses the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund annually, as we do for all our programmes, and the reviews are available on the DFID Development Tracker at https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/.

In partnership with the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund, the Global Fund to fight AIDS TB and Malaria has funded eight global and regional networks of sex workers, transgender people, people who use drugs, men who have sex with men, young people and people living with HIV, to mobilize their respective constituencies at the country level, helping them to address harmful policies, challenge human rights abuses and shape HIV services.

As of January 2016, around US$5 million had been committed over two years to fund activities in over 50 countries and every region of the Global Fund portfolio through this initiative.