Christian Aid Bangladesh is initiated a project called – “The Combatting Gender Based Violence in Bangladesh (CGBV)” under the commission of UN Women, funded by Global Affairs Canada. The project focuses on primary prevention, stopping violence before it occurs, as it is a strategic approach to ending violence against women and girls. The project recognizes that prevention of violence requires sustained and comprehensive action at individual, family, organizations and societal levels. CGBV intends to create a holistic framework of integrated and mutually reinforcing intervention to address the underlying causes and drivers of violence against women and girls; make duty bearers accountable to comply with international and national obligations addressing violence against women and promote their equal status in the society. Simultaneously, the Project is enhancing the capacity of civil society to advocate and influence policies for a violence free society and strengthen women’s voice and agency. The project is also engaging and partnering with district based and high-level leadership of key institutions such as local government and workplaces to prevent and address violence against women. Finally, the project is creating a strong and expanded knowledge base system to inform prevention policy and programming.
Objective: Under the light of this background, CGBV project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity to create more gender friendly workplaces and to establish measures to implement laws and policies for the prevention of sexual harassment and other forms of violence in the workplace. Moreover, the project has developed a training manual for the workers and mid-management on gender, gender-based violence (GBV) and safe workplace for employees the targeted factories.
Develop zero tolerance policy to sexual harassment and gender equality policy for the Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CCI) and private sector
