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

Actions	Start	End
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	Completed
(d) improve maternal health and access to family planning, including to delay first pregnancy and support safe childbirth (see 5.2)	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
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: 13 Jan 2012

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