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<p>The UK's Gender Equality Act 2014 (an amendment to 2002 International Development
Act, IDA) requires all overseas development funding to consider the impact of how
it will contribute to reducing gender inequality. The UK Aid Strategy prioritises
the rights of women and girls under its fourth strategic goal of tacking extreme poverty
and helping the world's most vulnerable. The FCO support a number of Official Development
Assistance programmes targeted at promoting girls' education, empowering women peacebuilders
and supporting female survivors of sexual violence in conflict. The programmes include
lobbying efforts encouraging foreign governments to prioritise girls' education reforms,
financial support for women mediator organisations, capacity building programmes for
female judges and women peacebuilders and consultations with survivors of sexual violence.</p><p>Additional
information on the FCO's ODA programmes can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-fco-programme-spend.</p>
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