  We discuss a general procedure to encode the reduction of the target space
geometry into AKSZ sigma models. This is done by considering the AKSZ
construction with target the BFV model for constrained graded symplectic
manifolds. We investigate the relation between this sigma model and the one
with the reduced structure. We also discuss several examples in dimension two
and three when the symmetries come from Lie group actions and systematically
recover models already proposed in the literature.
