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<p>DFID provides significant support to protect children from violence around the
world in both development and humanitarian contexts. Funding is delivered directly
through child protection programming, as well as through wider education, nutrition,
health, economic development and social protection programming. Current examples of
support include providing £5 million to the Global Partnership to End Violence Against
Children that is driving international progress towards Sustainable Development Goal
16.2 and on which the Secretary of State is a board member, £26 million to a Regional
Programme in Asia targeting the worst forms of child labour and £29.7 million to Education
Cannot Wait, a global fund for education in emergencies which has protection at its
centre.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no codes or markers within the Development
Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) database that allow for the systematic identification and tracking of all spending
on protecting children from violence. World Vision International is currently working
with DFID, alongside other development partners, civil society and the DAC to explore
whether a new process for identifying donor spend on violence against children can
be agreed.</p>
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