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Lead international action to improve the lives of girls and women

Work to empower and educate girls, recognise the role of women in development and help to ensure that healthy mothers can raise strong children

 

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5.1 Lead international action to empower girls and women
  • Work in partnership with the Nike Foundation to bring private sector expertise into DFID’s strategy on gender equality, and stimulate innovative approaches to empowering adolescent girls
 Started May 2013
  • Approve new programmes to meet the Strategic Vision for Girls and Women, including to:
(a) increase the number of girls completing secondary and primary education
    		Completed
    (b) promote economic empowerment of girls and women through jobs and access to financial services
        Completed
      (c) prevent violence against girls and women, including through piloting new approaches
        		Started Dec 2011
        (d) improve maternal health and access to family planning, including to delay first pregnancy and support safe childbirth (see 5.2)
          		Started Dec 2011
          • Implement programmes to deliver the Strategic Vision for Girls and Women
          		 Started Mar 2015
          5.2 Lead international action to improve maternal health and access to family planning
          • Embed in every relevant bilateral programme specific plans to take forward the promotion of choice for women over whether and when they have children
          		 Completed
          • Publish Reproductive and Maternal Health  Evidence Paper and Business Plan detailing how we will double our impact in terms of the number of maternal and newborn lives saved and enable 10 million couples to access modern methods of family planning over the next five years.
          		 Completed
          • Conduct a mid-term review of the Reproductive and Maternal Health Business Plan including progress against results
          		 Apr 2013 Dec 2013
          Last updated: 03 Oct 2011

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