Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many women’s organisations in Colombia receive UK funding.

All UK ODA programmes are required to take account of gender. The FCO Human Rights Fund has allocated over £1.5m for projects in Colombia related to the prevention of sexual violence since 2011. This programme supports grass roots women’s organisations in ten regional departments through financing their umbrella organisation in Bogota. During 2018, programmes managed by our Embassy in Colombia have worked with over 400 women in rural areas supporting their empowerment and access to justice. The UK has also supported the documentation of over 1200 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, and helped bring these cases before the transitional justice system. One of the International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes in Colombia will open a “call for proposals” in January 2019 for projects working with indigenous organisations led by indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon.