Colombia: Integral strategy for the prevention and awareness of all forms of gender-based violence
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $7,200,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Three reports were issued by the Office of the Ombudsman on the impact of armed conflict on women's rights.
- Creation of psychosocial care and legal services in three regions, and shelters in two.
- Advocacy for the incorporation of gender equality issues into the National Development Plan.
This programme aims to contribute to the eradication of all forms of gender-based violence (GBV) in Colombia through an integral and overlapping strategy that develops the axes of prevention, detection, recording, awareness and promotion of a political and legal framework in agreement with international guidelines.
Special consideration will be given to the issue of violence against women and those women who are particularly vulnerable: indigenous women, Afro-Colombians, displaced women and victims of the slave trade. Bringing to public attention violence suffered in the framework of armed conflict will be a priority. UNIFEM, UNFPA and IOM will lead the programme, in collaboration with the UNS agencies which are part of the Interagency Thematic group, national and local public institutions – legislative, executive and judicial powers and agencies of control – and civil society organizations, especially women’s groups and means of communication.