Kiribati unwavering on zero gender based violence
Commitment description:In alignment with the Nairobi ICPD25 Summit global commitments for “GBV and harmful practices against women and girls”; the Te Rau N Te Mwenga Act / Kiribati Family Protection Act; and the National Gender Policy, the Government of Kiribati, commit to promoting women empowerment and gender equality as means of ensuring zero gender based violence by no later than 2030. We will achieve this by: (1) integrating into the curricula of the nursing and midwifery schools ICM competencies to ensure integrated GBV including for persons with disabilities and during humanitarian response, and roll out the new curricula by 2022; and (2) we will have GBV prevention and response information in every Health Service Delivery Point including in the outer islands by 2022. We will integrate into nursing and midwifery school curricula, ICM competencies to ensure integrated GBV care, including for persons with disabilities and during humanitarian response, roll out the new curricula; have GBV prevention/response information in every Service Delivery Point by 2022.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionWe will integrate into nursing and midwifery school curricula, ICM competencies to ensure integrated GBV care, including for persons with disabilities during humanitarian response; have GBV prevention/response information in all SDP and outer island.
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.
