Contributing to elimination of sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination
Commitment description:Our organization commits to support better access to and use of services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence in the country. Services that are available include psychosocial, legal and medical support. However, these are not systematized and organized in one functional system. Hence, out aim in collaboration with all relevant service providers, both state and CSO-based, is to establish functional referral system for concerted violence response. At the same time, we will strive to build capacity of vulnerable women’s communities and initiative groups for advocating for their rights. Empowering the women is of utmost importance so that they spread information about existing services for violence resopnse, encourage their communities to use these services and advocate for full implementation of women’s rights on local as well as country levels.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionBy 2023 establish effective response to violence among vulnerable women through supporting better access and use of services via establishing functional referral system and empowering vulnerable women.
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
