• Facilitating gender justice, promoting and protecting rights and entitlements of women with dignity and participation of women in all
spheres of life for an empowered, gender sensitive and violence-free just society.
• Creating models of sustainable agriculture and livelihood options to improve quality of lives of the poor marginalized and excluded.
• Promoting and protecting rights and entitlements of children with demonstrated intervention models of child protection and care.
• Promoting collective action among CBOs and Civil Society Organizations by building capacities and technical expertise to effectively
address the issues affecting the lives of women and children, both at grassroots.
• To Create awareness for Health in woman, children & men and publicity in areas of contagious diseases such as AIDS, Hepatitis,
Cholera, Malaria and to popularize family planning programme etc. and make them acquainted with traditional medical system.
• Overall development of tribes, schedule cast and backward classes to run family oriented economic development programme,
& human resources development programme and to develop awareness against exploitation.

Gender equality is a human right.

Women are entitled to live with dignity and freedom from fear. Gender equality is also a precondition for advancing development and reducing poverty: Empowered women contribute to the health and productivity of entire families and communities, improving prospects for the next generation. Still, despite solid evidence demonstrating the centrality of women & rsquo;s empowerment to realizing human rights, reducing poverty, promoting development and addressing the world’s most urgent challenges, gender equality remains an unfulfilled promise.

For decades UNFPA has advocated for women and girls, promoting legal and policy reforms and gender-responsive data collection, as well as supporting initiatives that improve the health of women and girls and expand their choices in life.

Women and girls are still much more likely than men to be poor and illiterate, despite a number of international agreements affirming their human rights. They have less access to property ownership, credit, training and employment. They are far less likely than men to be politically active and far more likely to be subjected to gender-based violence.

Gender equality will be achieved only when women and men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all spheres of life. This means sharing equally in the distribution of power and influence and having equal opportunities for financial independence, education, health access and the fulfillment of ambitions. Gender equality demands the empowerment of women, with a focus on identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving women more autonomy to manage their own lives. When women are empowered, entire families benefit, along with future generations.

Key issues

Reproductive health: Women’s ability to control their own fertility is fundamental to their empowerment and equality. When a woman can plan her family, she can plan the rest of her life. Protecting and promoting her reproductive rights – including the right to decide the number, timing and spacing of her children – is essential to ensuring her freedom to participate more fully and equally in society. Every two minutes. Failure to provide information, services and conditions to help women protect their reproductive health constitutes gender-based discrimination and is a violation of women’s rights to health and life.

Addressing social and gender norms: Adopting a gender transformative approach to UNFPA programming means challenging gender inequality by transforming harmful gender norms, roles and relations, while working to redistribute resources more equally. On the 15-year anniversary of the International Men and Gender Equality Survey, UNFPA and Equimondo published the largest ever global study on men, masculinities and gender equality, with the goal of building an understanding of men’s and women’s practices and attitudes related to gender equality. The study is expected to inform, drive and monitor efforts to promote gender equality, particularly at the government policy level.

Economic Empowerment: Global economic systems still do not recognize the links between economic development and women’s bodily autonomy, ambition, time and contribution. Women’s participation in the formal economy is limited; they often have less pay than men, and their care work is undervalued. There is no country in the world where men’s contributions to unpaid care work or reproductive labour are equal to. The burden of unpaid care work is also reflected in the gender gap in labour-force participation; the employment gap deepens with parenthood. When women’s health, family size, child spacing and economic circumstances are balanced and planned, women can better manage care-giving and employment. The result is increased agency, well-being and available human capital. This balance can be facilitated by a range of private and public interventions, including increased sharing of care work and reproductive labour in the household and more gender-responsive health and social protection policies.

Educational empowerment: About two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women. Lack of education severely restricts a woman’s access to information and opportunities. Conversely, increasing education for women and girls benefits individuals and future generations alike. Higher levels of education for women are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates and better outcomes for their children.

Political empowerment: Gender equality cannot be achieved without the backing and enforcement of institutions. However, too many social and legal institutions still do not guarantee women equality in basic legal and human rights, in access to or control of resources, in employment or earnings, or in social or political participation. Men continue to occupy most positions of political and legal authority – globally, only around 26 percent of parliamentarians are women. And laws against domestic violence are often not enforced on women’s behalf.