Written Question

Developing Countries: Women's Rights

Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to embed ageing and older women’s rights in (1) implementing the White Paper on International Development published in November 2023 (CP 975), and (2) supporting grassroots women’s rights organisations.

Answered by Lord Benyon

The International Development White Paper, published in November 2023, reaffirms the goals of the International Women and Girls Strategy 2023-2030. The Strategy adopts a life course approach, targeting investment to the key life stages for women and girls to ensure we secure the greatest life-long and intergenerational impacts. Age is an important dimension in our approach to leave no one behind and ensure inclusion. The UK engages closely with the UN's open-ended working group on ageing (OEWGA) and supports UN resolutions on the human rights of older people. The White Paper restates FCDO's ambition that locally-led women's rights organisations (WROs) should be at the heart of setting development priorities in their communities. We include age and disability as considerations in our growing number of partnerships with diverse WROs globally, including women-led Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs).

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Deposited Papers
Home Office

Mar. 07 2011

Source Page: Strengthening women's voices in government: transforming the way the Government engages and listens to women in the United Kingdom. Consultation paper. 48 p.
Document: DEP2011-0388.pdf (PDF)

Found: Strengthening women's voices in government: transforming the way the Government engages and listens to

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Deposited Papers
Department for International Development

Jun. 02 2008

Source Page: Achieving universal access: the UK's strategy for halting and reversing the spread of HIV in the developing world. 75 p.
Document: DEP2008-1386.pdf (PDF)

Found: Achieving universal access: the UK's strategy for halting and reversing the spread of HIV in the developing

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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 09 2024

Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific Programme
Document: UK WPS National Action Plan (PDF, 8.5MB) (PDF)

Found: The UK’s forthcoming International Women and Girls Strategy will set out how the UK is putting women

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
UK Integrated Security Fund

May. 09 2024

Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific Programme
Document: UK WPS National Action Plan (PDF, 8.5MB) (PDF)

Found: The UK’s forthcoming International Women and Girls Strategy will set out how the UK is putting women

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Jul. 10 2024

Source Page: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) helpdesk query 91: women's economic empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected states
Document: (PDF)

Found: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) helpdesk query 91: women's economic empowerment in fragile and

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Deposited Papers
Department for International Development

Apr. 22 2008

Source Page: DFID research strategy 2008-2013. 48 p.
Document: DEP2008-1057.pdf (PDF)

Found: DFID research strategy 2008-2013. 48 p.

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Deposited Papers

Jan. 23 2008

Source Page: Single Equality Scheme 2007–2010. 120 p.
Document: DEP2008-0196.pdf (PDF)

Found: Asian women aged 65 or over (likely to be first-generation immigrants to the UK) have the highest rate

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Deposited Papers
Northern Ireland Office

Aug. 25 2009

Source Page: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission draft strategic plan 2009-2011 and accompanying equality impact assessment. Consultation paper. 45 p.
Document: DEP2009-2338.pdf (PDF)

Found: UK Government™s international human rights treaty obligations Education and training Consultation

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