Women and girls in developing countries

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Services

• Girls' Education 2018 to 2020: call for bids

  The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is seeking proposals for a project to promote 12 years of quality education and learning for all girls, building on commitments at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April 2018.

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Guidance and regulation

• FCDO's Work and Opportunities for Women programme
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 October 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Girls' Education Challenge
  • Detailed guide
  • 16 August 2018
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
• Integrating gender into the design, implementation and monitoring of carbon credit projects
  • Guidance
  • 4 October 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
  • Detailed guide
  • 24 July 2019
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Investing in women’s economic empowerment to strengthen supply-chain resilience
  • Guidance
  • 30 September 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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News and communications

• UK project supports girls in vulnerable conditions
  • 3 December 2024
  • World news story
• Tough new action to tackle violence against women and girls as government marks 16 Days of Activism
  • 25 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• Lord Collins appointed Special Representative on PSVI
  • 15 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• UK pledges Ksh 660 million to Kenya to boost weather and information services
  • 15 November 2024
  • World news story
• Lanes, drains, and automobiles – new port road driving growth and changing lives
  • 14 November 2024
  • World news story

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Research and statistics

• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) helpdesk query 91: women's economic empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected states
  • 10 July 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Research
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) helpdesk: evidence digest, May 2024
  • 9 July 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Research
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) helpdesk evidence digest, February 2024
  • 20 February 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Research
• From risks to rewards: overcoming the impacts of climate change on women in agricultural supply chains
  • 14 November 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Research
• DFID response to ICAI recommendations on: Assessing DFID's Results in Improving Maternal Health
  • 5 December 2018
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions
  • 27 March 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: international climate finance and gender security
  • 27 March 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• UK government support for girls’ education worldwide
  • 19 February 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• Women’s economic empowerment and climate change: an update to the WOW targeted guidance 3 primer
  • 26 January 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: gender and acute food insecurity
  • 26 January 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• FCDO gender-based violence results, April 2021 to March 2023
  • 11 March 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector: FCDO progress report 2022 to 2023
  • 30 January 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Corporate report
• Safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment: cross-sector progress report 2022 to 2023
  • 30 January 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Corporate report
• UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018 to 2022: annual report to Parliament 2022
  • 25 April 2023
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Ministry of Defence
  • Corporate report
• UK women, peace and security national action plan 2023 to 2027
  • 23 February 2023
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Ministry of Defence
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
• Home Office

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• Cabinet Office
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Northern Ireland Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• HM Treasury
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

• The Charity Commission
• Environment Agency
• UK Space Agency