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<p>All of DFID’s aid activities reported to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) are screened against the gender equality policy marker. This
is a measurement of the proportion of aid that supports gender equality and women’s
empowerment. An activity can be marked as ‘principal’ if gender equality is the main
objective of the programme, or as a ‘significant’ if gender equality is an important
and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the programme.</p><p>DFID’s
spend on bilateral allocable activities targeting gender equality is made publicly
available through the <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=DV_DCD_GENDER"
target="_blank">OECD statistics portal</a>. The latest figures available are for 2018
which show that £4.2 billion of DFID’s total bilateral spend was marked principal
or significant (66%.)</p><p>These world-leading investments are delivering results
at scale. Between 2015 and 2019, DFID reached 50.6 million women of childbearing age,
children under 5 and adolescent girls through our nutrition-relevant programmes and
supported 5.8 million girls gain access to a decent education. Last year, UK aid gave
23.5 million of the world’s poorest women and girls access to vital, voluntary family
planning.</p>
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