Support Provided for Women and Youth at Risk in the UNFPA Humanitarian Response in Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNFPA, in line with its global mandate and humanitarian settings, is the leading United Nations agency within the protection sub-category of Gender-based Violence. UNFPA leads programmes that respond to and help prevent GBV and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services. UNFPA also works to empower women and youth and enhance their decision-making capacity in order to support them in becoming agents of change in the process of recovery and healing. UNFPA has led work in this field since the beginning of the humanitarian response. Besides the country office in Sarajevo Canton UNFPA has established a field office in Una Sana Canton in order to manage the primary points of intervention within the humanitarian response. Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been continuously exposed to numerous hardships since the beginning of the migration crisis. UNFPA Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina and in collaboration with government authorities, has scaled up its scope of work in the two cantons most affected by the mixed migration flow since 2018.