Headline results
By 2012–13, DFID had achieved the following results*:
■ enabled 30.3 million people, including at least 14.6 million women, to work their way out of poverty by providing access to financial services
■ given 19.6 million people access to clean water, better sanitation or improved hygiene conditions
■ prevented 12.9 million children and pregnant women from going hungry
■ ensured that 1.6 million births took place safely
■ reached 8.7 million people with emergency food assistance
■ supported 5.9 million children – 2.8 million girls – to go to primary school
■ improved the land and property rights of 3.8 million people
■ helped 33.4 million people to hold their authorities to account and have a say in their community’s development
In 2012, the multilateral organisations that DFID supported:
■ provided food assistance to 97.2 million people in 80 countries (World Food Programme)
■ immunised 46 million children against preventable diseases (GAVI Alliance)
■ detected and treated 1.1 million cases of tuberculosis (The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria)
■ gave 2.5 million new households a water supply (Asian Development Bank)
■ provided 122 million people with humanitarian assistance (Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department of the European Commission – ECHO)