Training program on Early Identification and Safe Referral (EISR) for Gasa, Wangduephodrang and Punakha Dzongkhag.

In continuation with the training on Gender Based Violence Standard Operating Procedure (GBV SOP) for the Dzongkhag Woman and Child Committee (DWCC) and the frontline workers which was carried out in August 2020, the National Commission for Women and Children is carrying out a training program on Early Identification and Safe Referral (EISR) for Gasa, Wangduephodrang and Punakha Dzongkhag.

The training is aimed at strengthening the capacities of DWCC members and the front-line workers on responding and referral of cases of GBV, CICL and CIDC. The two-day training was attended by Dasho Dzongdag, members of DWCC, sector heads, school counsellors, teachers, health workers, police personnel, desuups and local government leaders. 

In addition to the training program, a dissemination workshop on the findings from gender assessment of the selected National Determined Contribution sectors (Agriculture, Energy and Waste) was also carried out.  The participants are also being oriented on the gender and climate change nexus including gender differentiated impact. Members of the Dzongkhag Mainstreaming Reference Group also participated in the dissemination workshop along with the DWCC members and front-line workers.The program is implemented through the Project titled ‘Gender Responsive NDC implementation in Bhutan’ with UNDP and supported through the financial assistance of the European Union, the Government of Spain and the Government of Germany to the Royal Government of Bhutan.

The training program and the workshop was held from November 16-19, 2020