Egypt
International Development
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to support (a) security sector reform in Egypt and (b) Egyptian civil society to hold security and justice providers to account.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
DFID is working closely with other UK
Departments to support strengthened governance and greater public voice
in Egypt, including exploring ways to provide direct support for
security sector reform.
Through the joint DFID-FCO
Arab Partnership, the UK is providing support for media and civil
society organisations to hold public officials and services to account
in Egypt. For example, work led by the FCO and part-funded by DFID, is
supporting Aswat Masriya, a local media organisation, to provide high
quality and objective information to the public.
