LONDON: The United Kingdom launched a new Women and Girls strategy on International Women’s Day to tackle global gender inequality at every opportunity, including combating efforts to roll back women’s rights and working with partners around the world Incorporated, according to official releases by the British government.
In the statement, the UK government said it is the first time that the strategy commits the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to have more than 80 per cent of its bilateral aid programs including a focus on gender equality by 2030.
Talking about gender equality, the UK government said climate change and humanitarian crises are disproportionately affecting women and girls, pushing back on women’s rights, including in countries such as Iran and Afghanistan. And sexual violence is occurring in the conflicts in Ukraine. And elsewhere, violence against women online is on the rise.
foreign Secretary james finesse Said, “Advancing gender equality and challenging discrimination is clearly the right thing to do, but it also brings freedom, boosts prosperity and trade, and strengthens security – the fundamental building blocks of all healthy democracies.” Is.”
“Our investments so far have improved lives around the world, with more girls in school, fewer people forced into marriage and more women in top political and leadership roles,” she added.
In the statement, the UK secretary further said that “hard-earned gains” are under increasing threat and everyone must step up their work to tackle the inequalities that remain at every opportunity.
The Foreign Secretary will also launch the new strategy in Sierra Leone, visiting a school and a hospital in his mother’s hometown of Bo, to see how UK-funded projects are having a positive impact on women and girls Used to be.
“At the hospital, she will see how UK aid is improving blood banks and equipment, increasing access to electricity and saving the lives of pregnant women. At school, she will learn about the girls’ aspirations for the future. I’ll listen. The UK is supporting the students there.” To talk about stopping the violence,” the statement read.
“The strategy continues to focus on educating girls, empowering women and girls, supporting their health and rights and ending gender-based violence – challenges the UK believes most intense.”
It does FCDO Involve your entire network of High Commissions and Embassies around the world to deliver the strategy. This will involve UK heads of mission developing plans and commitments to their host country and raising the most pressing issues with their host governments. The UK will also develop an ambitious new research offering to help the UK and its partners make investment decisions.
Alongside the strategy, the Foreign Secretary will announce a new Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Program focused on sub-Saharan Africa, where child marriage and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world.
Reaching 10.4 million women, the program will receive up to £200 million and is expected to prevent 30,600 maternal deaths, 3.4 million unsafe abortions and 9.5 million unintended pregnancies.
Separately, the UK is also increasing support for women’s rights organizations and movements, recognizing their important role in advancing gender equality and protecting rights, and boosting the voices of women and girls at the grassroots level . Most of this £38 million program will be delivered through a new partnership with equity fund,
Jess TomlinCo-CEO of the Equality Fund said: “We are really excited about this partnership because it shows that every sector can come together – with courage and urgency – to provide resources to women’s rights organizations everywhere .. An equitable, sustainable, thriving future depends on the solutions of feminist movements, and it is time for all of us to trust and reliably resource their leadership around the world at large.”
In the statement, the UK government said it is the first time that the strategy commits the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to have more than 80 per cent of its bilateral aid programs including a focus on gender equality by 2030.
Talking about gender equality, the UK government said climate change and humanitarian crises are disproportionately affecting women and girls, pushing back on women’s rights, including in countries such as Iran and Afghanistan. And sexual violence is occurring in the conflicts in Ukraine. And elsewhere, violence against women online is on the rise.
foreign Secretary james finesse Said, “Advancing gender equality and challenging discrimination is clearly the right thing to do, but it also brings freedom, boosts prosperity and trade, and strengthens security – the fundamental building blocks of all healthy democracies.” Is.”
“Our investments so far have improved lives around the world, with more girls in school, fewer people forced into marriage and more women in top political and leadership roles,” she added.
In the statement, the UK secretary further said that “hard-earned gains” are under increasing threat and everyone must step up their work to tackle the inequalities that remain at every opportunity.
The Foreign Secretary will also launch the new strategy in Sierra Leone, visiting a school and a hospital in his mother’s hometown of Bo, to see how UK-funded projects are having a positive impact on women and girls Used to be.
“At the hospital, she will see how UK aid is improving blood banks and equipment, increasing access to electricity and saving the lives of pregnant women. At school, she will learn about the girls’ aspirations for the future. I’ll listen. The UK is supporting the students there.” To talk about stopping the violence,” the statement read.
“The strategy continues to focus on educating girls, empowering women and girls, supporting their health and rights and ending gender-based violence – challenges the UK believes most intense.”
It does FCDO Involve your entire network of High Commissions and Embassies around the world to deliver the strategy. This will involve UK heads of mission developing plans and commitments to their host country and raising the most pressing issues with their host governments. The UK will also develop an ambitious new research offering to help the UK and its partners make investment decisions.
Alongside the strategy, the Foreign Secretary will announce a new Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Program focused on sub-Saharan Africa, where child marriage and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world.
Reaching 10.4 million women, the program will receive up to £200 million and is expected to prevent 30,600 maternal deaths, 3.4 million unsafe abortions and 9.5 million unintended pregnancies.
Separately, the UK is also increasing support for women’s rights organizations and movements, recognizing their important role in advancing gender equality and protecting rights, and boosting the voices of women and girls at the grassroots level . Most of this £38 million program will be delivered through a new partnership with equity fund,
Jess TomlinCo-CEO of the Equality Fund said: “We are really excited about this partnership because it shows that every sector can come together – with courage and urgency – to provide resources to women’s rights organizations everywhere .. An equitable, sustainable, thriving future depends on the solutions of feminist movements, and it is time for all of us to trust and reliably resource their leadership around the world at large.”
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