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<p>UK support to the African Union Gender, Peace and Security Programme (GPSP) comes
from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), which has funded the programme since
financial year 2014/15. GPSP has delivered a number of high-impact outcomes, including
the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI). To date the GPSP has:
established and supported the role of Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security
within the AU, raising the political profile of Gender across the continent; deployed
a team of sexual violence experts to the Central African Republic to help care for
victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; supported the formulation of the Gender
Mainstreaming action plan for AMISOM, the African Union’s peacekeeping operation in
Somalia; funded a conduct and discipline officer to work with the AU Peace Support
Operations Department in embedding gender into all agreements between the AU and Troop
Contributing Countries; and supported the African Union in responding to allegations
of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Somalia by delivering initiatives such as a helpline
for victims.</p>
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