Women Empowerment Programme
4863 women and girls got leadership and advocacy skills to stop child marriages and combat violence against women and girls
494 people aware on women’s economic rights and the government schemes on
Sustainable Development Programme
livelihoods and economic empowerment
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Members of child club in Rautahat who have been campaigning
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against child marriage. Photo by: Prerana Marasini/Oxfam
400 women oriented on constitutional provision for women’s participation
he Women Empowerment
and providing them with leadership
Programme’s goal is “women and
skills so that they could develop
in local bodies. 125 women leaders
girls from poor and excluded groups
themselves as community change
contested for the local elections 55
enjoy their rights and lead a dignified
leaders. This helped in breaking
life free from violence.” This theme
stereotypes around gender norms such
covers women’s political participation
as child marriages or ending violence
200
and transformative leadership, social
against women. Oxfam, together with
At least 200 cases of violence against
inclusion, women and girls’ economic
its partners, sensitized women on the
women addressed through counselling,
empowerment and women’s legal
impacts of violence against women
rights, and addressing violence
and helped either to prevent it or
against women and girls, with a
to ensure right actions were taken
particular focus on ending child, early
when they occurred. We’ve used
and forced marriage (CEFM).
counselling, mediation, and referrals
In the last year, the programme
as steps to address cases on violence
focused children and women’s groups
against women.
women won key positions
mediation, and referrals
180 community discussion centers and 40 child clubs formed in four districts
58 case of child marriages prevented
