Partially Agree (61), Partially Agree (70) 37. The UK plays an active role in supporting women’s rights organisations (WROs) to deliver our WPS commitments, including through partnerships with international civil society and non-governmental organisations. For security and safeguarding reasons, we deliberately do not name individual partners operating in conflict-affected contexts on a routine basis, as doing so could place local women’s rights organisations and individuals at risk. The risk of reprisal against women peacebuilders is sadly increasing. We take their protection extremely seriously. 38. In the 25th anniversary year of UNSCR 1325, we expanded our support for women peacebuilders and women’s rights organisations by providing over £3.5 million from a centrally managed programme to support women in the most dangerous and fragile places. We will be providing a similar amount in FY26/27. 39. The UK agrees that local organisations, including WROs, are at the very heart of efforts to build peaceful, inclusive, just and stable societies. Their work is rooted in the needs of their communities, and progress on the WPS agenda is likely to be more effective and sustainable when solutions are localised. Flexible funding is a powerful tool that enables local organisations to channel resources to where they are most needed – adapting to learning or changing circumstances. 40. ODA allocations have now been agreed at a geographic and thematic level, in line with the FCDO’s strategic priorities. FCDO Ministers took decisions throughout this process to avoid disproportionate negative equalities impacts including on women and girls. This included a decision to fully protect funding at FY25/26 levels, for central programme spend on Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), and Women, Peace and Security. Most decisions on individual programmes are still being finalised. Individual programme detail will be made available on DevTracker once finalised and will provide the level of transparency needed for stakeholders to track and access progress on WPS. 41. The provision of funding is not the only way in which the Government is advancing WPS. The Government uses a range of diplomatic, development and defence levers to implement the agenda, supported by financial resources that are distributed across departments, programmes and regions. 42. We will embed women and girls’ rights across all our foreign policy. Through mainstreaming, we will shift from a reliance on a small number of standalone programmes to ensuring that women and girls are systematically considered across the entire portfolio. By 2030, at least 90 percent of the FCDOs bilateral ODA will have a focus on equality for women and girls, either as a principal or significant objective. This approach allows us to sustain ambition and impact for women and girls even as overall aid budgets reduce, by integrating gender equality into all our work. 43. Mainstreaming is not “administrative lexicon” or a drop in focus on this issue. Women’s and girls’ rights should be built into decisions across the entire portfolio, rather than being confined to a small number of standalone programmes. Effective mainstreaming embeds women and girls across the FCDO’s global network and establishes protecting the rights and safety of women and girls as a core foreign policy priority. A wholeportfolio approach helps sustain ambition and impact for women and girls by embedding that priority across country strategies, humanitarian responses, multilateral engagement and diplomacy. 44. WPS is treated as core business within the MOD through its integration into the Human Security framework. Dedicated Human Security personnel, specialist training, and the incorporation of WPS principles into military planning and operations seek to continue to normalise considerations of women and girls as part of our overall approach to Human Security in day-to-day defence activity. 45. The MOD’s Human Security change programme, now halfway through delivery, is explicitly designed to strengthen, not dilute, WPS implementation by institutionalising it across the organisation. This approach recognises that WPS objectives are most effective when they are mainstreamed and applied consistently, rather than siloed or treated as an add-on. Mainstreaming WPS therefore enhances accountability, reach and impact, ensuring that considerations around the security of women and girls as part of our overall approach to Human Security meaningfully informs defence activity at all levels.