Who we are...

We are the collective of women's NGO of Bangladesh, fighting towards gender equality, women's human rights and combating violence and poverty in rural Bangladesh. We mobilize rural women and girls child for education, rights and building the self esteem and young leadership in development process.

Bangladesh Women’s Foundation initiated in 2003 to assist in empowering emerging women’s groups and organization of rural women in Bangladesh. After the independence of Bangladesh, over the years there are large number of women’s groups and organization have been established in most remote areas but due to lack of access to external or local financial resources they remain in active and ineffective in the development process. To intervene the situation, BWF has been working to support LWOs since 2003 to strengthening of these organizations’ institutional capacity and women’s leadership development. At the stage of organizing BWF realized their financial problem preventing this organization to be effective in the women’s movement. Since 2003, BWF funded Hence BWF has initiated to develop Bangladesh Women’s Fund Society for creating alternative funding sources for self-sustenance of women’s leadership in grassroots level and indigenous rural based organizations/groups throughout the country.

Goal

To increase the self-reliance of the women’s groups towards supporting women’s initiatives focused on human rights, gender equality and improved conditions of women and children in Bangladesh.

Objectives and Priorities

§  Promotion of women’s human rights- by promoting, education and defending rights for women in the area of domestic and public violence, trafficking women and children, prevention of acid attack and sexual harassment;

§  Promotion of women’s participation in decision making- through ensuring women’s improved access to basic needs and social and economic development and resources;

§  Promotion of women’s entrepreneurship and market skill training in traditional and non-traditional activates for economic empowerment;

§  Invest of women’s capacity building and supports continued efforts of organizational capacity building, leadership development empowering local women’s NGOs as development leadership.

§  To bring women and men into equitable partnership in the development process;

§  To help support efforts to strengthen rural communities and poverty alleviation.