Bangladesh: Joint UN Programme to Address Violence against Women in Bangladesh

This joint programme to address violence against women (VAW) in Bangladesh aims to achieve MDG3 ‘Promote gender equality and empower women’ and the UNDAF outcome ‘Societal changes are realized to reduce discriminatory practices and to pursue equity and empowerment for women and girls’ (National Priority Five: Gender Equality and Advancement of Women).

The programme will realize the following results: 1) the policies for preventing VAW and protecting victims adopted and implemented, 2) societal change and behaviour change among men enhanced to reduce VAW and discriminatory practices such as dowry, early marriage and trafficking, and 3) enhanced environment and capacity for providing support to the victims of VAW. This programme will be implemented by the Joint Programme Management Office (JPMO) supervised by the Representative of UNFPA Bangladesh. Guidance and oversight of the programme will be provided by the UN Country Team as well as by the Government of Bangladesh.