Ms Maeve Taylor:

I should clarify that I am representing the Irish Family Planning Association, IFPA, although we are the Irish collaborating partner of UNFPA, particularly for its State of World Population report launch, which will be happening soon. I want to follow up on what Ms Keatinge has said about tracking, monitoring and the A Better World policy. It is an excellent policy and, from an IFPA perspective, one of the things we were happy to see was a very strong grounding of human rights and gender equality in that policy, with respect for sexual and reproductive health and rights in a way we had not seen previously in Irish Aid or Ireland's policy.

I spoke yesterday to a colleague in Ethiopia who was wholehearted in her respect for the way Irish Aid has integrated policy approaches, good critical analysis and brought sexual and reproductive health and rights into its work on sustainable development as a core aspect. However, we need to see more. As Ms Keatinge said, we have not seen the guidance yet and one of the promises of A Better World was a new sexual and reproductive health and rights initiative. This is something that will give guidance and allow us a framework for accountability and monitoring and for critical engagement with Irish Aid to know how Ireland is pushing forward its strong and respected objectives around gender equality in the context of sexual and reproductive health and rights. In the context of tracking, the publication and production of that initiative would be an extremely important way forward.