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<p>The UK is a world leader in championing prevention of Violence Against Women and
Girls through research, programmes and partnerships. Our £25million What Works to
Prevent Violence programme is the largest global investment in research into prevention
of violence against women and girls and I am committed to maintaining the UK’s global
leadership in this area.</p><p> </p><p>At the Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
(SGBV) in Humanitarian Crises Conference the UK committed £7 million of support to
tackle SGBV in Syria through our partnership with the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) and reaffirmed our commitments made under the Call to Action on Protection
from Gender Based Violence in Emergencies.</p><p> </p><p>Work to prevent and respond
to GBV in emergencies in DFID consists of standalone programmes and GBV prevention
and response integrated into broader conflict prevention, humanitarian and sector
wide interventions in education, women’s economic empowerment and social protection.
This complexity means that we do not specifically track all this spend as gender-based
violence programming.</p>
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