The UN Women has announced a call for proposals to support integrated essential services for survivors of violence under a project aimed at ending sexual and gender-based violence in public spaces, workplaces, and tertiary educational settings in Bangladesh.
The initiative focuses on eliminating discrimination against women and girls, empowering women, and achieving equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security. It supports strengthening national structures and mechanisms for gender mainstreaming in policies, plans, and budgets; preventing and eliminating violence against women; promoting women’s access to decent and safe work; and advancing policies and government investment in women’s empowerment and resilience building in the context of climate change, humanitarian crises, and other threats to peace and security. The project also aims to enable women in Bangladesh to live a life free from sexual and gender-based violence in public spaces, workplaces, and tertiary educational institutions, improve the formulation and implementation of gender-responsive laws, policies, and budgets, strengthen attitudes and behaviour in institutions to prevent violence, and enhance the role of civil society organizations, women’s rights organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, and youth networks in ending sexual and gender-based violence.
