DFID’s efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls

Summary

Addressing violence against women and girls has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals and is also an important precondition for achieving other development outcomes. The UK Government has made it a priority to address this, and, from 2012, the Department for International Development (DFID) significantly scaled up its VAWG programming including a greater emphasis on prevention and long-term multi-sectoral approaches.

The review explores how well DFID has translated ambitious policy commitments into effective programmes with the potential to make a real difference. We also examined DFID’s efforts to encourage others – both nationally and internationally – to tackle VAWG.

The review gave DFID’s performance a ‘green’ rating, recognising UK aid’s significant contribution to tackling violence against women and girls. A follow up report was completed in June 2017.