Results

• Provide more than 50 million people with the means to help work their way out of poverty

Results so far:

Nearly 12 million people have been helped to access savings, credit and insurance through UK aid - allowing them to make small investments and save for times of crisis.

• Help up to half of the countries in Africa benefit from freer trade

Results so far:

We set up the Africa Free Trade initiative last year to provide practical help to break through barriers to trade such as border post bureaucracy. In February 2011, we also launched the TradeMark initiative and are supporting partners to create a free trade area across 26 countries in eastern and southern Africa.

• Secure the right to land and property for more than six million people

Results so far:

We have improved the land and property rights of 1.1 million people. We have started to help cut red tape when it comes to granting land rights to people and businesses. For example, in Burkina Faso we have been working with the Investment Climate Facility for Africa to reduce the time it takes to legally transfer land from six months to 21 days. We have developed programmes to secure land rights for 6 million people in Rwanda, Mozambique and India.

• Key issues | Economic growth

• Help more than six million of the world’s poorest people to escape extreme poverty

Results so far:

British aid has helped more than 3 million people to escape extreme poverty through social assistance using cash transfer programmes. We are expanding successful projects like these in countries such as Ghana, where direct, small-scale payments are already helping 100,000 people to cover essential needs such as food, clothing and schooling.

• Stop ten million more children going hungry

Results so far:

In September 2011, we published Scaling Up Nutrition – the UK's position paper on undernutrition – which set out in detail how we will expand our programmes to tackle malnutrition. As a result, we will now reach 20 million children under the age of five through nutrition-related programmes. For example, a new programme in Nigeria will help improve nutrition for 6.2 million children and pregnant women.

• Ensure another four million people have enough food throughout the year

Results so far:

UK aid has helped six million people with emergency food aid in response to the drastic food shortages in the Horn of Africa and other areas. Longer term, we are pioneering new ways to build up food security in places like Karamojo in Uganda, where 445,000 people are being helped to grow their own food, increase their range of crops and improve agricultural infrastructure.

• Key issues | Food and nutrition

• Support nine million children in primary school

Results so far:

Over the last two years aid from Britain has supported 5.3 million children ( 2.5 million of them girls) to go to primary school.

• Support two million children in lower secondary school, at least half of which will be girls

Results so far:

British aid has, in the last two years, supported 600,000 children (including 260,000 girls) in lower secondary school. We are piloting a range of innovative programmes to get kids into school – and keep them there. For example, In Ethiopia, we are trying out a new project to see more girls complete secondary education by offering the school a financial reward for every extra girl that graduates.

• Train more than 190,000 teachers and improve the quality of education and children’s learning

Results so far:

From 2009-10 we trained over 95,000 teachers and will be increasing this to 190,000 teachers a year by 2015. We will also continue to support and monitor the quality of education, focusing on the key skills of basic literacy and numeracy.

• Key issues | Education

• Help immunise more than 55 million children against preventable diseases

Results so far:

In June 2011, the UK announced it would support the GAVI Alliance to vaccinate more than 80 million under-fives against killer diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea as part of a broader international effort to save millions of children lives.  British aid has ensured that 21 million children have already been immunised.

• Save the lives of at least 50,000 women in pregnancy and childbirth and 250,000 newborn babies

Results so far:

A pioneering programme is already underway in South Africa to save the lives of 3,000 pregnant women. An early priority is the training to doctors, nurses and midwives to deal with obstetric and neonatal emergencies so that fewer women die in childbirth. At a global level, we have published our new framework, Choices for women, which sets out in how we will achieve this result in the coming years.

• Enable at least ten million more women to use modern methods of family planning by 2015

Results so far:

A million more women are now using modern methods of family planning thanks to British aid. At a global level, we've worked with pharmaceutical companies to reduce the costs of contraceptive implants for women. The lower costs mean that an additional 14.5 million women could have access to family planning over the next four years. At a national level, we're working in countries like Uganda to increase awareness of modern family planning for women and teenage girls, giving them more control and choice as to when they have children.

• Help halve malaria deaths in ten of the worst affected countries

Results so far:

In the last year UK aid delivered more than 12 million bednets to prevent malaria. Use of these nets for one year will prevent over 66,000 child deaths. Plus, we're working with countries to develop ways to reach more people more effectively with malaria prevention and treatment. For example, in Sierra Leone we supported the implementation of Free Health Care for children under five which led to a million more children getting treatment for malaria.

• Key issues | Health

• Give 15 million people access to clean drinking water

Results so far:

Across our country programmes we have provided two million people with clean water. As well as continuing this trend and to speed up progress, we are working with other international partners to raise the profile of water access through Sanitation and Water for All: A Global Framework for Action.

• Improve access to sanitation for 25 million people

Results so far:

UK aid has helped two million people get access to better sanitation. We are focussing our efforts where the need is greatest – notably in Africa, with five new major country programmes on sanitation in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. These are in addition to continuing programmes across both Africa and Asia.

• Improve hygiene for 15 million to help stop people getting sick

Results so far:

We're directly running hygiene projects in 15 of our focus countries and contribute to many more through our support to global bodies like the UN which will help us to reach our target. So far, we have improved hygiene for 7.4 million people. We're focusing on changing behaviour at key moments to help stop people getting sick – for example, in Bangladesh we will reach half a million mothers with the message to wash hands with soap after going to the toilet.

• Key issues | Water and sanitation

• Focus 30% of our aid on war torn and unstable countries by 2014

Results so far:

We are already expanding our work in fragile and conflict affected states with three-quarters of our focus countries falling into this category.

• Support freer and fairer elections in 13 countries with more than 300 million voters

Results so far:

We have supported freer and fairer elections in 5 countries with over 76 million people voting in elections supported by UK aid.

• Help ten million women to access justice through the courts, police and legal assistance

Results so far:

Starting from this year, we have been developing new and innovative justice programmes which focus specifically on women, beginning from 2012. 300,000 women and girls have already benefitted from improved access to justice thanks to British aid. For example, In Malawi, we plan to increase women's access to police-run victim support services. And in Ethiopia, we are starting a project to bring communities, police and the courts together to increase prosecutions for serious sexual crimes like rape.

• Support 40 million people to hold authorities to account

Results so far:

We've published new guidelines on spending up to 5% of our in-country aid on strengthening the accountability of governments to their people. Following our aid reviews in March 2011, we are working to tackle corruption and strengthen accountability in specific countries, including by working with local citizens’ groups and the media. We have helped 17 million people to hold decision makers to account.

• Key issues | Governance and conflict

• Help millions of poor people protect their lives and livelihoods from the impacts of climate change

Results so far:

Through our support for CARE's Adaptation Learning Programme we are already helping 40 communities across Africa – including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Niger – to adapt by boosting harvests and protecting key assets like cattle from floods and droughts. In Asia, we are working in countries that will be hit first and hit hardest like Bangladesh. Here we are helping 15 million people protect themselves against the impacts of climate change by building embankments and shelters as well as promoting climate resilient crops and improving access to safe drinking water.

• Support poor countries to develop in ways that avoid or reduce harmful emissions of greenhouse gases

Results so far:

We're helping to support the Clean Technology Fund which will provide 18 million people with low carbon and affordable transport as well as help build 10 new concentrated solar power plants in North Africa – providing clean electricity and thousands of jobs to local communities. We're also working with businesses to increase investment in low carbon opportunities as well as supporting developing countries to set up carbon credit trading systems.

• Help millions of poor people secure clean energy

Results so far:

The UK is helping to expand renewable energy across the world’s poorest countries – including Ethiopia, Honduras, Kenya, Maldives, Mali and Nepal – by financing solar, wind, bio-energy, geothermal and small hydro technologies. In India alone, we are helping to secure private investment in solar power which will help produce 130 megawatts of energy – enough to power around 100,000 homes.  Last year, in total, we helped 600,000 people to access clean energy.

• Give more protection to the world’s forests and the 1.2 billion people who depend on them

Results so far:

UK aid is helping fund the ten year Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme to protect 39 million hectares of forest and avoid 33 billion tonnes of carbon emission. It will save the livelihoods of tens of millions of forest-dependent communities and increase the incomes of 50 million farming men, women and children.

• Key issues| Climate and environment