Founded in 1983, Nari Maitree, which translates to Women’s Solidarity, is a women lead  non-governmental and non-profit organization operating on a national level in Bangladesh. The organization is dedicated to providing essential services to disadvantaged and vulnerable women, adolescents, and children. Nari Maitree’s primary goal is to empower these groups, enabling them to establish their fundamental rights and improve their livelihoods, both in rural and urban settings.

The SAFE  and SHOKHI project takes a rights-based approach to raise awareness about women’s and girls’ rights through a combination of messages on prevention, service provision and proposed legal and policy reforms. Prevention messages focus on bodily integrity and decision-making in intimate life. Issues of choice and consent are highlighted as essential elements in enabling women’s and girls’ self-determination over their lives, and in particular, to realization of their rights to health and to freedom from violence. SAFE and SHOKHI Project  employs a multi- sectoral intervention to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and to combat violence against women and girls (VAWG). The strategy is to create stronger and more effective demand for services for addressing SRHR issues, and for ending violence against women by raising awareness of rights and remedies, and by creating an enabling environment in the community.

Nari Maitree’s experience in intervention implementation, including programs with similar scope to Balika Badhu, is substantiated through a diverse range of documents and collaborations with various reputable organizations.