International Planned Parenthood Federation: Finance

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the reduction to Official Development Assistance funding to International Planned Parenthood Federation's women’s integrated sexual health programmes on cases of (a) HIV, (b) sexually transmitted diseases and (c) unintended pregnancies amongst women in conflict zones in (i) Ethiopia and (ii) Pakistan.


Answered by
James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

The UK is proud to defend universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights which is fundamental to the empowerment of women and girls. Global health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, is a top priority for the FCDO.

As announced last year, the impact of the global pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take the tough but necessary decision to temporarily reduce how much we spend on Official Development Assistance (ODA). We will temporarily move to a target of spending 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI) on ODA, rather than 0.7%. This is a temporary measure and we will return to 0.7% when the fiscal situation allows. We are now working through the implications of these changes for individual programmes including on the Women's Integrated Sexual Health Programme (WISH). No decisions have yet been made on individual budget allocations.

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