CEDAW Shadow Report 2011
BBC works in the 12 critical issues of women. It has been carrying out consultancy
workshops to review B+5, B+10, B+15 as well as ICPD 10 in the context of Nepal. It
produced shadow reports for B+5 and 10 and presented to CSW sessions. The process it
adopted was to initiate dialogue from the grass-roots through National to
Regional/International levels and then back again.
It has been implementing Women's Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership (WHRAP)
program since several years in a couple of districts undertaking advocacy initiatives for
Women's and Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) issues in the
context of Nepal. The project aims to reduce maternal mortality focusing on unsafe abortion
and uterine prolepses through increased access of the marginalized women and young people
to information and services.
Data gathering process
The data presented in this report were gathered from different sources. Some of the major
sources are:
• Inputs from all the district partners
• B+15 National Consultation report
• Government 4th and 5th CEDAW report
• National Demographic health Survey Data (2006)
• BBC Policy briefs
• Policy brief of CREHPA
Of these the important data source was from the inputs given by our district partners- from
Makawanpur, Lalitpur and Morang districts. In Makawanpur we are working in 33 Village
Development Committees (VDCs) focusing on safe abortion. We have mobilized
surveillance group in each VDC. In each VDC, The group works with the community at the
grass root level and creates awareness regarding our issues. They interact with the local
health personnel and attend the meetings with mothers group, with FCHVs and with pregnant
women group from where they collect the information and data which is eventually
disseminated to BBC.
In this report we are focusing only on the sexual and reproductive health rights and
especially on access and rights to safe abortion and, prevention of uterine prolapsed as this is
highly prevalent amongst women from all geographical regions. This report is produced
based on the Beijing+15 NGO National Consultation from 56 districts, we have focused
program on Safe Abortion in Makawanpur, we conducted research in the Tribhuwan
University Teaching Hospital and Kathmandu Valley on uterine prolapsed, as well as inputs
from our partners from Morang and Lalitpur districts.
5 Beyond Beijing Committee, Kathmandu, Nepal