UK Government decisions to cut UK Aid are disproportionately falling on women and girls

June 2021

Briefing: The UK Aid cuts, and the way they are being implemented, will have wide-ranging and long-standing impacts on the world’s poorest people – in particular, women and girls.

This briefing seeks to outline the UK aid cuts and examine their damaging impacts on gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights programming. It includes case studies on the different types of programming that are impacted by the cuts. In setting out the way forward, the briefing concludes by point out that long-term and flexible investments are crucial to achieving gender equality and other key global commitments such as the SDGs.

This briefing was written by CARE International UK in collaboration with IRC UK, Women for Women International, IPPF, Plan International UK, Womankind Worldwide, Gender and Development Network, UK SRHR Network, Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) and the analysis was conducted by Save the Children UK.