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World Vision Bangladesh’s Response to Gender Equity
Challenges for women in Bangladesh include the following
1. According to Human Development Index 2011, 58.7% of women participate in the labor force compared to 82.5% of male. Female participation is also concentrated in lower- level jobs and wages are about half of the male wage rate.
2. Though gender parity has been achieved in primary and secondary education enrollment, drop-out rates are higher for girls than boys
3. Maternal mortality rate is comparatively still high -194 per 100,000 live births – and only 24% of births attended by skilled health personnel. An estimated 30% of adult women in Bangladesh are malnourished (Gender Assessment USAID/Bangladesh, April 2010)
4. Bangladesh has the unfortunate distinction of persistent early marriage (average age of marriage is 16.4 years) and early child bearing which often contribute to high fertility and maternal mortality.
5. A number of laws exist to prevent violence against women but the enforcement of those laws remains a major challenge. The Bangladesh Cabinet recently approved. The Domestic Violence (resistance and protection) Act, 2010
In order to broaden the participation of women, reduce gender-based discrimination and improvethe status of women, World Vision Bangladesh has recognized the importance of gender equity as essential to poverty reduction, improved living standards and sustainable economic growth. Thus it is continuing to promote and support gender equity by designing gender inclusive projects and paying careful attention to gender issues across the full range of its operations such as improved access for females to education and health services, clean water, better sanitation, and basic infrastructure. World Vision Bangladesh’s operations will be guided by its gender and development policy and gender and development plan of action.
World Vision Bangladesh’s Response to Gender Equity
To achieve this objective, World Vision Bangladesh Gender seeks to pursue its call and aspiration through three intervention strategies:
1. Decreasing the level of violence against women and nurturing its victims
- Awareness building and education to communities and families
- Male and female focused advocacy efforts
- Network building with influential community, faith-based and educational leaders
- Support for avenues to justice
- Partnering to reduce trafficking in women
2. Reducing discrimination and ensuring equal access to services
- Engaging women in family and community level economic activities
- Improved access to social services
- Partnerships with institutions of influence
- Parental awareness building on importance of education
- Reducing economic and cultural barriers to female education
- Building capacity and awareness to identify and address sources of injustice
- Identifying and analyzing core problems and opportunities
- Support services to widows and women escaping violence
3. Fostering equality in decision-making
- Advocating for a balanced male-female role in family and community
- Facilitating women’s control over resources
- Awareness building on educational benefits and effects of early marriage
- Growing capacity of gender-focused community groups.
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