Gender Based Violence Elimination
Commitment description:The Bahamas commits to the overall goal of zero sexual and gender-based violence by 2030. The specific action to be taken by the government of The Bahamas is to implement the “GBV Intervention: Perpetrators” programme outlined in The Bahamas’ Strategic Plan to Address Gender Based Violence, 2015. This is critical as the “GBV Intervention: Perpetrators” programme is committed to engage, train and provide decision making life skills for perpetrators of GBV so that they can return to society as productive citizens ready to assist and protect their communities and their families. The programme is measurable in that it targets, in the first instance, 140 prison inmates per year via the Prison Fellowship International Rehabilitation Programme. “GBV Intervention: Perpetrators” is relevant because working with offenders to reduce gender based violence addresses root causes of GBV such as toxic masculinity and gender bias stereotypes. The estimated cost associated with the GBV Intervention Perpetrators programme is $5,000,000.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionThe Bahamas, in 2015, commenced a timely initiative to transform the country into a Bahamas free from GBV. In pursuit of this goal the GBV Intervention: Perpetrators Programme was designed to make perpetrators accountable, productive citizens.
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.
