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A recent report highlights the need to look at the types of obstacles preventing girls’ from completing their education
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
UK to match-fund Discovery Communications' £12.3 million investment in girls' education
The UK support to the Global Fund is helping to bring healthcare to the doorstep of rural Ethiopians through the training and deployment of health extension workers.
The Indonesian government is working to improve healthcare services to people living in remote islands by sending medical help through professionals and advocates.
A DFID project expected to save over £162million ($250million) has won Best International Procurement Project of the Year at the CIPS Awards
How UK support to BRAC is helping the poorest and most vulnerable women improve their lives in rural Bangladesh.
How UK support is helping Somali women have safer childbirths.
Research into using microbicides to help women protect themselves from HIV is being funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
UK backs new ‘super tea’ to save lives of iron-deficient mothers and to help keep their newborns healthy.
Voting is currently open for the Saving Lives at Birth People’s Choice Award
The International Development Research Centre are looking for a senior programme specialist to help lead a new global initiative
Mr. Chandler also presented certificates to some 25 women who participated at a series of workshops funded under the project.
Lynne Featherstone launches a new programme to improve the prospects of girls and women in Nigeria
UK aid supported voter mobilisation programme targeted at women highlights the importance of voting and gets rural women interested in exercising their rights
British aid is helping 100,000 Pakistani women register to vote for the first time - giving them the choice to have their say on who represents them
The UK government invited members of the diaspora community to help explain the challenges Somali women face – and their ideas to overcome them
New funding for female survivors of violence and exploitation in Haiti
The Economic Empowerment of the Poorest Programme (EEP) is working in Bangladesh to help understand extreme poverty and to develop effective strategies for social empowerment and economic growth.
Six million people in DR Congo to get essential healthcare under a new British programme to improve lives and help create sustainable peace
Friday the 22nd March is World Water Day. A new series of Outcome Stories, from the Challenge for Water and Food Programme, look at the socio-economic impacts of water efficiency.
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