§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on which occasions and what projects during his term of office he has overridden professional advice from the Overseas Development Administration that projects are not good value in aid terms and used Overseas Development Administration funds for that purpose.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has given a ministerial direction to ODA' s accounting officer on one occasion, in respect of the Pergau hydro-electric project in Malaysia.
Agency Country Project Name 1992–93 Africa Now Gambia Tanji Community Family Planning 26,187 CARE Sudan Maternal Health 9,515 Christian Aid Thailand Burma Ethnic Minority Refugee Programme 28,003 Health Aid Moyo Malawi Expanded Nurse/Midwife Training 84,180 Marie Stopes International Bangladesh Employment Based FP Programme for Workers 66,191 Marie Stopes International Ethiopia Condom Soc Marketing FP/Aids Prog Urban Couples 64,589 Marie Stopes International Ethiopia Maternal and Reproductive Health Clinic 45,738 Marie Stopes International India Contraceptive Social Marketing 77,335 Marie Stopes International India Family Life Education (Brass Tacks) Extension for Delhi and Lucknow 119,032 Marie Stopes International India Workplace FP and Prev HC—Employees and Dependants 73,382 Marie Stopes International Lesotho Creating a Corps of Village-based FP Ed/Motivators 5,402 Marie Stopes International Malawi Community Mch and FP-Blantyre, Lilongwe and Zomba 146,461 Marie Stopes International Malawi Man to Man—Male Orientated Child Spacing/Education 92,303 Marie Stopes International Mexico Factory Based Health Care and FP Programme 71,777 Marie Stopes International Nicaragua Workplace Preventative Maternal Health and FP 71,278 Marie Stopes International Pakistan Lahore Based Reproductive Health Ext Services 2,036 Marie Stopes International Sierra Leone Work Based Maternal and Child Health and FP 7,636 Population Concern Bangladesh FP Services for the Rakhaine Tribes 19,428 Population Concern Ethiopia FP Training for Rural Women Development Agents 17,364 Population Concern Ethiopia Jimma-Contraceptive Distribution by Comm Health Agents and TBAs 28,348 Population Concern Ethiopia Training of Health Assistants 19,955 Population Concern Ethiopia Yirgalem—FP Education and Outreach Services 25,773 Population Concern Gambia Youth to Youth Iec on Adolescent Reproductive Health Management 24,034 Population Concern India Mobile Education and Service Unit 48,235 Population Concern India Women's Development (Kulasekaram and Dindigul) 39,567 Population Concern Pakistan Community Leadership Training 16,132 Population Concern Pakistan Family Planning Through Community Institutions 28,864 United Kingdom Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific Vanuatu Family Health Planning Project 33,771 Urban Aid Ghana Family Planning Project 36,277 TOTAL 1,328,793
§ Mr. WatsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans the Government have to encourage other member states in the European Union to start funding family planning and related projects within their development and co-operation budgets.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe are playing a leading role in pressing for concrete action to follow up the 1992 EC resolution on population. Officials participate in regular expert meetings in Brussels to strengthen co-operation among member states and the Commission. We are also helping the Commission to organise a seminar for EC member states and Commission officials on 28 February.
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