To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they provided to combatting female genital mutilation globally in each year from 2019 onwards.
Answered on
29 January 2025
Since 2019, the UK has committed up to £35.5 million towards the Supporting the Africa-Led Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) programme. This includes funding to the UN Joint Programme for the Elimination of FGM. Since 2019 we have also funded £20 million towards the Sudan Free of FGM programme. The breakdown of these investments by year is in the table below. In addition, the FCDO funds several programmes on ending gender-based violence (GBV) that include FGM. In total FCDO spent £53.4 million on ending GBV in 2023, including FGM.
Year | Total |
2019 | £505, 242 |
2020 | £1,499,174 |
2021 | £4,371,113 |
2022 | £1,609,123 |
2023 | £6,703,605 |
2024 | £11, 655,218 |