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Global Fund
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on the use of money from the Global Fund to fight (a) malaria, (b) HIV/AIDS and (c) tuberculosis. [167816]
Mr. Gareth Thomas:
Since its inception in January 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved proposals amounting to US$2.1 billion and disbursed funds to 227 programmes in 122 countries.
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This funding has been allocated as follows:
By diseases: 60 per cent. on HIV/AIDS, 24 per cent. on Malaria and 16 per cent. on Tuberculosis.
By region: 60 per cent. to Africa, 20 per cent. to Asia, Middle East and North Africa, 20 per cent. to Latin America, Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
By country income: 67 per cent. to low income, 30 per cent. to lower middle income and 3 per cent. to upper middle-income countries.
The following outcomes (from the first three funding rounds) are expected after five years:
700,000 people on antiretrovirals, tripling current coverage in developing countries;
35 million people reached with HIV voluntary counselling and testing services for prevention;
over one million orphans supported through medical services, education and community care;
over three million additional tuberculosis cases treated with Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) successfully after diagnosis, tripling the treatment of multi-drug resistant TB globally, with over 8,000 new treatments;
22 million combination drug treatments for resistant malaria delivered;
64 million bed nets financed to protect African families from transmission of malaria.
The Fund is committed to using recipient countries' existing financial management, monitoring and reporting systems wherever possible to increase harmonisation in country-led processes. There is increasing evidence that the Fund is able to bring other donors, government departments and civil society together for joint planning to fight the world's three most devastating diseases.
Mauritania
John Barrett: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on water shortages in Mauritania. [167827]
Hilary Benn: Mauritania is a low-income food deficit country which is vulnerable to drought and desertification. A large proportion of the population relies on agricultural production to satisfy its food and income needs. During drought periods, people have severe difficulties in meeting their food requirements, either through direct production or through recourse to alternative sources of income.
DFID has provided significant humanitarian assistance to Mauritania in recent years in response to the severe drought and resultant food shortages. In 2002–03 DFID contributed £1 million to the World Food Programme's regional appeal, which covered five countries in the region, but was mainly focused on Mauritania where the drought situation was most severe. DFID also contributed £0.5 million to an Oxfam appeal focused on the most badly affected areas in the South of the country.
According to the latest FAO reports the overall food security situation in the country remains satisfactory. However there is a desert locust outbreak currently under way in northern Mauritania which may mean that crop production figures will have to be revised downwards to take account of the impact of possible pest damage.
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Overseas Representation
Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development in which countries the Department is represented; how many staff are employed in each location, broken down by (a) UK nationals and (b) locally employed; what the annual cost of maintaining representation in each of the countries was in 2003–04; and what the total expenditure by his Department on overseas representation was in (i) 2001, (ii) 2002 and (iii) 2003. [166210]
Mr. Gareth Thomas
[holding answer 19 April 2004]: Details of DFID staff, by each location, broken down by (a) non-locally employed (those staff who are not locally employed are not solely UK nationals) and (b) locally employed, are listed in the following table. These figures include secondments to other organisations or projects.
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Data are not available centrally by country for DFID representation only.
The table also includes cost figures by country; these are limited to the cost of representation and hence exclude costs associated with external secondments and projects. Where we have been unable to provide an individual country breakdown of expenditure we have included information for the region. These figures represent planned expenditure for 2003–04 and are subject to final outturn revisions.
Comparable expenditure figures for 2001 and 2002 are not available because in 2003–04 DFID introduced a new definition of administration costs to include costs for staff, travel and allowances that were previously paid from the programme budget. The change in definition will increase transparency and enable DFID to manage its administrative costs more effectively, but it precludes providing comparable figures for earlier years.
(21) West Asia records figures for Afghanistan and Pakistan together, the estimate of separate office costs is therefore an estimate for 2003–04
(22) UK presence in Iraq since November 2003. DFID staff costs recorded only, support costs were met by the US Military for 2003–04.
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Pakistan
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of (a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability, measured in hectares per person, of farmland in Pakistan. [167205]
Mr. Gareth Thomas: None. However, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation statistics 1 in 2001 the agricultural area in Pakistan was 27.1 million hectares and the agricultural area per capita was 0.19 hectares.
1 Source:
faostat.fao.org
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of (a) current and (b) projected trends in the availability of fresh water in Pakistan. [167208]
Mr. Gareth Thomas: According to a World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund assessment, data on the percentage of availability of improved water supplies in Pakistan is as follows:
| Urban | Rural | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 96 | 77 | 83 |
| 2000 | 95 | 87 | 90 |
Source:
WHO-UNICEF http://unstats.un.org
The Millennium Development Goal target for Pakistan for total availability of improved water supplies by 2,015 corresponds to 92 per cent. 1 .
To assist the Government of Pakistan improve access to water and sanitation, DFID is undertaking a £6.5 million five year Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in North West Frontier Province in support of the devolved government process, which will benefit a total of 1 million persons. Water is also one of the key sectors in which DFID is engaged in Faisalabad in Punjab province as part of a programme of support to the decentralised government system for the delivery of basic services.
1 World Bank Development Indicators
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