Lead international action to improve the lives of girls and women

Empower girls and women so that their lives are significantly improved and sustainably transformed through better education, greater choice on family planning and preventing violence against them

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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
Implement programmes to deliver the Strategic Vision for Girls and Women	Started	Mar 2015
Assess the progress of international organisations on delivering for girls and women where this has been identified as a reform priority following the Multilateral Aid Review	Started	Oct 2013
Launch the Girls Education Challenge, available to the charitable and private sectors, to put up to one million more of the world’s poorest girls in school by 2015	Completed
Establish a research and innovation fund to build the evidence and test out new approaches in ten priority countries on the most effective ways of preventing violence against girls and women	Completed
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
Conduct a mid-term review of the Reproductive and Maternal Health Business Plan including progress against results	Apr 2013	Dec 2013
Host a major international event to mobilise sufficient financial and policy commitments to enable at least 120 million additional women in the world’s poorest countries to have access to modern methods of family planning by 2020 and to re-establish family planning as a fundamental development and health service for women	Completed