"Follow up to the Dhaka Resolution" is a UN Women funded research on the impact on access to justice among the beneficiaries of Promotion of Legal and Social Empowerment of Women intervention (PLSEW, Phase II) undertaken by German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) between 2008-2011. This intervention was selected at the Seventh South Asian Regional Ministerial Conference Commemorating Beijing held in 2010 as an exemplary collaborative initiative between development agencies, program implementers and policymakers with the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs taking a leading role. This initiative also involved Ministry of Home, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, the Bangladesh Police and the Department of Women's Affairs. As per the Dhaka Resolution made at the conference, this research will assess the impact of the PLSEW to contribute to strengthening local governance and government services to respond effectively to reduce violence against women.
BRAC Development Institute (BDI) is conducting qualitative research in four intervention areas (Bogora, Netrokona, Satkhira and Madaripur) to carry out a legal review of laws relevant to gender equality, rights and gender violence and formulate a position paper for MOWCA to contribute to the aim of strengthening legislative commitments and judicial orders to further gender equality. BDI will organize a discussion on the research findings with dispensers of justice to identify measures to be taken to enable women affected by violence to claim justice and receive redress. The field work for the qualitative research in Netrokona and Madaripur has already been completed.