In 2016, the UK provided a total of £2.3 billion of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) to countries/regions classed as fragile or conflict affected (FCAS) where gender equality was identified as by project teams either a significant or principal aim of the spend. This amount represented 27% of total UK bilateral ODA in 2016. Table: Total (and percentage of) bilateral ODA in FCAS with a significant or principal gender equality marking, 2016 Total ODA Gender equality (GE) marked projects in FCAS Significant objective £2.03bn Principal objective £0.30bn Total GE marked FCAS projects £2.33bn Total UK Bilateral ODA £8.54 bn Total GE marked FCAS projects as a % of UK bilateral ODA 27% Source: OECD DAC ODA Statistics, 2016. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Development Assistance Committee gender equality policy marker has been used in this answer. The marker is a statistical indicator that is assigned to a project depending on the extent to which gender equality is a significant or main aim of the project. A significant marking means gender equality is an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the project; and a principal marking means gender equality is the main objective of the project.