The UK’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative

International Development Committee

Parliament’s International Development Committee (IDC), or its ICAI sub-committee, hold hearings on all ICAI reviews. The IDC hearing for this review is available to watch online.

ICAI follow-up

Approximately one year after we publish our reports, we follow up on the steps the government has taken in response to our recommendations. This process is a key link in the accountability chain, providing Parliament and the public with an account of how well government departments have responded to ICAI reviews.

ICAI’s follow-up review is available to read now. It found that important strategic work is under way which could amount to a strong response to ICAI’s recommendations and underlying concerns. However, as ICAI has not seen the planned PSVI strategy, key performance indicators or monitoring, evaluation and learning framework, or received information on the budget for PSVI-related activities, we are not yet able to conclude that the government response has been adequate. We will return to assess the government’s progress again next year.

Further follow-up

The further follow-up exercise revealed a strong learning journey that has placed the government’s programmes to tackle conflict-related sexual violence on a much stronger evidence-based footing and in line with global best practice.