Promoting Women and Girls Rights with focus on Merged Districts
Women & girls rights
Preparation of Draft Transgender Policy
PREPARATION OF DRAFT TRANSGENDER POLICY OBJECTIVE To rehabilitate the Transgender community of the Province. PROGRESS Draft Policy has been prepared and meeting of the Provincial Committee for Transgender has been scheduled on 27-12-2017. Sent to Law Department for vetting in November, 2017
GRAP Phase-II
G R A P P H A S E - II OBJECTIVE To promote gender enabling environment in the society at large. To sensitize public sector Departments to bring in Gender Equity in their respective programs. To promote women participation in policies as well as in public services. To protect working women both in [...]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Women Empowerment Policy
KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT POLICY, 2017 OBJECTIVE To create conducive socio-cultural, economic, political and legal environment to allow women to practice their fundamental rights and participate fully in all spheres of public and private life. To effectively mainstream women empowerment policy into sectoral policies, strategic planning, structures, processes, projects, human and financial resource allocation, performance [...]
Privileges to Senior Citizens
SENIOR CITIZENS REGISTRATION & PRIVILEGES NOTE: SENIOR CITIZENS REGISTRATION HAS BEEN STARTED CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM OBJECTIVE On the basis of senior citizens card the senior citizens will be allowed:- Free of charge entry to public museums, Libraries, Parks and recreation facilities Financial support to deserving senior citizens. Separate counters for senior citizens [...]
Establishment of BOLO HELP Line
BOLO HELPLINE - 0800-22227 BOLO Helpline 0800-22227 is established at Provincial level for the victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and persons with disabilities at Directorate of Social Welfare and Women Empowerment KP. The proposed helpline is hosted in the office of Social welfare and women empowerment, and proposed operations are managed under one roof. [...]
Women Parliamentary Caucus – Provincial Assembly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Women Parliamentary Caucus - Women Parliamentary Caucus – Provincial Assembly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 16 Days Awareness Orientation – Violence Gainst Women (25th Nov to 10 December 2017) in collaboration with Provincial Commission on the Status of Women UN-WOMEN and SWISS Agency for Development & Cooperation. Discussed Violence Gainst Women. Presentation made by the representatives of all the provinces [...]
Inter Provincial Ministerial Group
Inter Provincial Ministerial Group Women’s Development has been constituted which will meet periodically to agree on key priorities for gender equality in line with international commitments. This group has members from provincial ministries of women development, National Commission on the Status of Women and Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, an official at [...]
World Disability Day
World Disability Day he K-P’s Social Welfare, Special Education and Woman Empowerment Department has prepared a draft bill titled ‘The K-P Persons with Disabilities (Rights, Rehabilitation & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) Act, 2017’. The bill, yet to be vetted by the K-P Law Department, seeks to establish a Provincial Council for Rights, Rehabilitation [...]