Addressing gender-based violence and harmful practices
Commitment description:1. Promote changes in harmful socio-cultural norms and practices through the promulgation of relevant laws and policies to uphold human rights and gender equality and women’empowerment through the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law by 2020.
2. Reduce reported cases of domestic violence to less or equal to 1000 by 2030, the proportion of women who marry before age 18 by 90 percent by 2030 as well as achieve zero percent cases of girls aged 15 to 19 who have undergone FGM.
3. Protect the girl child from emerging criminal activities such as kidnapping, human trafficking and violence against domestic workers especially in foreign countries.
4. Restructure and strengthen structures and personnel that deal with gender-based violence at all levels and sustain awareness creation especially at the community level including opportunities and avenues for reporting such cases.
5. Sustain gender parity for Kindergarten, Primary and Junior High School and attain gender parity for Senior High School at 0.96 and tertiary institutions in 2030.
6. Formulate and implement workplace policies on sexual harassment in all public and private sector agencies.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionAddressing gender-based violence and harmful practices
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.
