Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to comply with the International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014 in conditioning the £370 million in development funding for the government of Rwanda, in relation to the allegation of its role in fuelling conflict-related sexual violence.

Our Official Development Assistance (ODA) portfolio in Rwanda is explicitly designed to support women and girls: gender equality is a significant or principal objective of all our programmes. In all our programme business cases we provide evidence as to how the interventions will impact on gender equality and we then assess progress against this at each Annual Review. The UK is a member of the International Alliance on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and is a partner under the platform for action promoting the rights and wellbeing of children born of conflict related sexual violence.