The United Kingdom is a leading donor on efforts to counter violence against women and with many promising results so far, the U.K. Department for International Development is now at a crossroads, according to a recent review by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, the watchdog tasked by Parliament with overseeing U.K. aid.
Following an increase in funding in recent years and renewed political backing from U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening, DfID’s work on gender-based violence needs to scale up across sectors and better integrate learning from its own pioneering work in the sector, the report said.
Meanwhile, U.K. aid recipient and a cross-sector VAWG implementer, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has elevated gender equality to the highest level in its new strategic framework and is encountering many of the same challenges in scaling up VAWG programming, and seeing huge potential for knowledge-sharing across sectors.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
