<p>The UK leads the world in our support to the Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In 2018, we announced a further £50 million UK aid package – the biggest single donor investment worldwide to date – to tackle this issue across the most-affected countries in Africa.</p><p>The table below sets out how much DFID spent on specific programmes to end FGM in the years 2015-18. Estimates for 2019 spending will be available in autumn 2020.</p><p>DFID also supports efforts to end FGM through wider programmes and multi-donor funds which address sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, including FGM. It is not possible to disaggregate the FGM-specific spend in these programmes, so the table does not reflect the entirety of DFID spend in this area.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>in £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FGM programme specific ODA Spend</strong></p></td><td><p>£8.1 m</p></td><td><p>£10.0m</p></td><td><p>£9.4m</p></td><td><p>£5.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FGM spend as % of DFID ODA</strong></p></td><td><p>0.083%</p></td><td><p>0.102%</p></td><td><p>0.093%</p></td><td><p>0.048%</p></td></tr></tbody></table>