Written answer
Overseas Development Aid
Ireland says SRHR aid has been sustained and strengthened, while 2027 allocations remain undecided; it supports global initiatives and civil society, including women’s rights groups.
3. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total value of Irish Aid funding directed to sexual and reproductive health and rights in each of the past five years; whether sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) funding has been maintained or increased in Budget 2027; and the proportion of Ireland's ODA is directed to local women's rights organisations working on SRHR. [74644/26]
Comment on this
The Government’s policy for international development, A Better World, recognises sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as fundamental to women’s health and wellbeing and as essential to the achievement of gender equality.
Information on Ireland’s support for sexual and reproductive health for the period 2019 to 2025 is provided below, illustrating sustained and strengthened support for the sector. Information for 2026 will be available in due course; final sector allocations for 2027 are still being determined, as part of the normal budgetary exercise.
Building on long-standing commitments to maternal health and the fight against HIV and AIDs, Ireland supports global initiatives working on sexual and reproductive health, including UNFPA and UNAIDS. For the period 2026 to 2028, Ireland pledged to increase funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria by 10%, compared with the previous three-year period.
Civil society organisations and community representatives are actively involved in the oversight and implementation of global initiatives, such as UNFPA's supplies partnership programme which works to protect supply chains for essential reproductive medicines, and the work of the Global Fund. In addition to funding for membership-based associations advocating for better access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, Ireland continues to provide core support for civil society organisations, many of which are local women’s rights organisations.
ODA provision for sexual and reproductive health for the period 2019 to 2025 is set out in the table below.
* 2025 figure pending final validation with the OECD.