The report presents Maldives’ economic and demographic background, with a focus on the recent economic growth and the demographic transition.
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Initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women’s responses to violence
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Today, on 24 August 2015, the Government of Maldives and the United Nations System signed the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2016-2020. The UNDAF is the strategic framework document for partnership between Maldives and the UN, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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These national guidelines will support healthcare providers in providing high-quality and comprehensive services to survivors of GBV and also to prevent GBV in the community. The guidelines will provide medical providers with direction to manage GBV survivors.
The guideline is intended to provide guidance to all categories of health staff, but primarily for Doctors, Nurses, and Primary health care workers considered as the health care providers directly involved in providing care to survivors of GBV as the first contact person in the health sector.
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This document outlines the minimum standards of healthcare, including health service package, indicators for youth-friendly health services in facilities, beneficiaries of youth friendly health services, criteria and monitoring tools for assessing youth friendliness at all levels of the health care delivery system. It is expected that these service standards would help to make progress towards advancing the health needs of adolescents and age appropriate knowledge to youth in all parts of the country.
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The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was a historical conference, held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. The significance of this conference was the impact it brought towards integrating population issues into the development agenda of the member countries.
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Until now, violence against women has remained largely hidden and undocumented in the Maldives. This has made it difficult to assess the extent of the problem or develop effective prevention strategies and support services for victims of violence. This study on violence against women is the first of its kind in the Maldives and the culmination of 3 years of hard work by many organizations and individuals here and abroad. We are grateful to all those involved. This vital data, which uncovers the forms and patterns of violence against women in the Maldives, we can bring the issue out into the open and begin to develop and implement policies and programs to address this serious problem.
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