Programme priorities
The United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, was created by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1976, to be an aid and advocate for women of the developing world to give them voice and visibility.With its headquarter in New York UNIFEM today works over 100 countries and has 15 regional offices.UNIFEM in Nepal is a Programme Office of the UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office based in Delhi.Though UNIFEM has been working in for a long time but officially the Programme Office was established in 2001.

Programme priorities include:
>Reducing Feminized Poverty and Exclusion
>Promoting Women's Human Rights
>Engendering Peace and Governance

Type of assistance and programming:
Within an empowerment framework, and in collaboration with its partners, it focuses on reducing feminized poverty and exclusion responding to the current challenges of increased feminized poverty, and its attendant fall-outs for women, such as increased vulnerability to violence, trafficking, migration, and HIV/AIDS. Working towards ending violence against women and the elimination of trafficking of women and children, UNIFEM focuses on the realization of women’s human rights, using a holistic and multi-dimensional approach. To reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst women and girls, UNIFEM brings a gender equality and human rights perspective to partnerships forged through UNAIDS with the UN system, national AIDS councils, women’s and government organizations at the global, regional and national level. Bringing a gender equality perspective to peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction, UNIFEM promotes women’s leadership to ensure their equal voice in shaping policies that affect their lives and choices.