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<p>In Financial Year 2013 to 2014 DFID spent £93.3million on providing clean water
and £34.8million on sanitation projects. In that year DFID also spent £39.8million
on health education which includes promotion of improved hygiene practices. The source
for these figures is the publication Statistics on International Development 2013
2014. The tables in that publication are not able to provide a figure for spending
on women’s sanitary projects. However, we have a number of programmes globally. DFID
is supporting a number of initiatives to address menstrual hygiene management. For
example, in our education portfolio we support programmes that are improving the availability
of disposable sanitary pads. DFID has also supported an extensive menstrual hygiene
management research programme which resulted in a comprehensive manual and training
pack.</p><p> </p><p>This includes the CAMFED Secondary Education Programme in Zimbabwe
that is helping to ensure 24,000 orphaned and vulnerable girls complete secondary
school. Through the Girls’ Education Challenge programme, DFID is providing £10million
to World Vision in Zimbabwe to implement the Improving Girls’ Access to Transformational
Education programme which aims to support 95,000 rural girls. In the rural zone of
Wolaita in Ethiopia, DFID is working with an NGO called ‘Link Community Development’
to provide sanitary pads and upgrade sanitation facilities for 56,683 marginalised
girls.</p>
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