Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence

The United Nations Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence aims to improve violence survivors’ access to quality services, and to encourage countries to implement the Agreed Conclusions of the 57th Commission on the Status of Women.     Joint Programme on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in Kenya  Saving Lives in Sierra Leone Phase 2

Launched by UNFPA and UN Women in 2013, the programme entered its second phase in 2016. It aims to achieve global consensus on standards and guidelines for delivering quality essential services, provide technical advice to guide implementation, and build service providers’ capacity to deliver these services.

Phase 2, the implementation phase, began with the development of implementation guidance for use by countries, including policy and technical advice for governments to plan for and provide essential services, and to cost and budget for them. 

The next step is testing the standards and guidelines, and ensuring that each country has a plan in place to achieve the standards, along with measurement and accountability mechanisms.

The standards and guidelines are being tested in Guatemala, Tunisia, Peru, Egypt, Mozambique, Cambodia, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Pakistan and Viet Nam. Lessons from the test countries will inform adaptation of the standards and guidelines to country contexts, and further refine the advice provided to countries.