United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
un_agency · multilateral
· verified (verified 2026-05-25)
Profile
- Type
- un_agency
- Home
- multilateral
- BD office head
- Gitanjali Singh (UN Women Representative, since July 2022)
- In Bangladesh since
- 2005
- Modality
- mixed
- Cumulative commitment
- —
- Active portfolio
- —
Active on ending technology-facilitated and gender-based violence, women's economic empowerment and gender-responsive governance under Representative Gitanjali Singh.
Recent activity
- 2025-11-25 new_programme UN Women, the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and the UN inaugurated the 2025 global 16 Days of Activism with a national dialogue to end digital violence against women and girls, held in Dhaka. ↗
Provenance & notes
Bangladesh programme office established in 2005 (initially to implement the second phase of a regional programme on women migrant workers in Asia). Four programmatic focus areas drawn from the official UN Women Asia-Pacific Bangladesh country page. No verifiable cumulative/portfolio/annual disbursement USD figure to Bangladesh found from an official source; left null. ERD partner status not independently confirmed; left null.
Sources
- https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/countries/bangladesh
- https://bangladesh.un.org/en/about/our-team
- https://bangladesh.un.org/en/305964-bangladesh-hosts-national-dialogue-end-digital-violence-part-global-16-days-activism
- https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/stories/feature-story/2025/11/addressing-digital-violence-through-storytelling-in-bangladesh