Marie Stopes Bangladesh - Share-Net Bangladesh

Organisation name:

Marie Stopes Bangladesh

Project Name:

SHOKHI-Project on women's health rights and choice

Focused area/issue:

Direct: Health and legal services and awareness raising on health and legal rights Strategic : Advocacy at local and national level Cross Cutting: Referral of existing services and women empowerment Partial : Community mobilization

To enable women’s empowerment and provide economic, based on the consideration that a healthy worker is able to contribute meaningfully to society.

Target People:

5,02,770 individuals in the target slum areas The project will focus especially on working women, who make up 33% of the total slum population.

Duration:

1 December 2013 to 31 March 2018

Major activities:

As strategic issue: Community empowerment will increase women's empowerment, safety and dignity through challenging social norms and informal power structures which condone and perpetuate violence against women, and prevent women from accessing employment and services. Recognising this, the project will use community empowerment strategies to work towards an outcome where women living in slums are raising their voices and being heard regarding the protection and recognition of their rights As cross-cutting issue: Direct service provision will increase women's empowerment, health, safety and dignity through lifting some of the constraints on women's access to the health and legal services which are essential to the realisation of women's health and rights. Recognising this, the project works towards an outcome where a working woman living in the slums is accessing the convenient, gender-friendly, affordable and quality services she needs with fewer restrictions, in a protected environment within her community

Partners:

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition Marie Stopes Bangladesh (Marie Stopes (MS)

Donors:

Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands

Number of beneficiaries:

The project is estimated to directly benefit 5,00,000 individuals, including beneficiaries of legal and health services from the satellite clinics and focal centres as well as participants at the awareness raising training sessions and vocational training sessions, community fairs and job fairs. The majority of the beneficiaries will be women, and a significant number among them will be women garment workers and women domestic workers

Link:

https://shokhi.org/

Contact person:

Geographical Area:

15 slums in the Mirpur, Mohammadpur and Mohakhali areas of Dhaka City

List of the IEC Materials:

Poster on child marriage, dowry, violence against women, family planning methods, reproductive health rights, legal rights etc. There are booklets, stickers, flipcharts, leaflets on the similar issues. There are three video documentaries on the thematic part of the project.