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The government has revealed the details of its plans to reduce foreign assistance with the support of children’s education and women in Africa, which are facing the biggest cuts.
The government said in February, which would reduce foreign assistance by 40% – from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% – to increase protection costs up to 2.5% after pressure from the US.
The foreign service report and impact assessment indicate that Africa will come in Africa, and less spent on women’s health and water supply with increasing risks, as they say, diseases and death.
Bond, a British network of assistance organizations, said women and children in the most marginalized communities will pay the highest price.
As well as less support for Africa, including large reductions in children’s education, the financing of the occupied Palestinian territories will decrease by 21%, despite promises.
But the government stated that the cost of multilateral assistance bodies – the money provided by international organizations, such as the World Bank, will be protected, including the Gavi vaccine, and it stated that the UK would also play a key humanitarian role in hot spots such as Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan.
Baronez Chapman, Minister of Development, said: “Every pound should work more for the UK taxpayers and the people we help all over the world, and these figures show how we start to do so with clear attention and priorities.”
The government said the reduction was carrying out a “strategic review” of the line, which was focused on “priority, efficiency, protection of planned humanitarian support and live contracts, providing responsible departure from programming where it is necessary.”
The foreign service said that bilateral support – assistance that goes directly to the country -maintenance – will decrease for some countries, and multilateral organizations that are considered insufficient will face further cuts in financing. He has not yet announced which countries would be affected.
Bond stated that it was clear that the government “violated” financing “for education, gender and countries undergoing humanitarian crises, such as South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, and the surprisingly occupied Palestinian territories and Sudan, which will be protected.”
“This concerns bilateral financing for Africa, sex, education and health programs,” said Bond policy director Gideon Rabinowitz.
“The most marginalized community in the world, especially those who feel conflict and women and girls, will pay the highest price for this political choice.
“At a time when the US pulled all gender programs, the UK should step up and not back.”
In recent years, foreign aid has been under intensive control, with one minister of the Cabinet Public reception no longer supports expenses for it.
One of the organizations that escaped the reduction was the World Bank. The Foreign Bureau has confirmed that the International Development Association (MAR), the World Bank Fund for low -income countries, will receive 1.9 billion sterling over the next three years, and help the organization to use 1.9 billion.
The governments of work under Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have pledged to increase the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of national income.
The goal was achieved in 2013 under the government of the Conservative Liberal Democratic Coalition, David Cameron, before it was enshrined in the law in 2015.
However, the costs for help were reduced to 0.5% of national income in 2021 in accordance with Conservatives, accusing COVID economic pressure.
