About UNFPA

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an international development agency that works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every child birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA is the lead UN agency that expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives. To read more about UNFPA, please go to: UNFPA about us Service Requirements/Terms of Reference (ToR)

Background:
Gender-based violence (GBV) encompasses harmful actions based on gender differences, resulting in physical, sexual, or mental harm, coercion, and other violations of personal freedom. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is committed to addressing GBV as part of its broader mandate to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights. UNFPA collaborates with government, civil society, and health service providers to implement evidence-based interventions aimed at preventing and responding to GBV.

In Nepal, UNFPA collaborates closely with the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizen to strengthen national GBV prevention and response efforts. This includes building the capacity of health service providers, such as doctors, nurses, midwives, and paramedics, to deliver quality GBV and SRHR services, as well as implementing community-level interventions involving men, women, adolescent girls, and boys for prevention.

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) are critical components of comprehensive health service provision. Effective training of healthcare professionals on the intersection of GBV and SRHR is necessary to ensure that they can provide informed, sensitive, and inclusive care to service seekers. A video tool will serve as a powerful educational resource to highlight these linkages and improve understanding among health service providers as well as relevant audiences. UNFPA aims to integrate this video tool with possible training related to SRHR, Gender, training packages targeting adolescent girls and boys etc