| Project Detail |
In order to fight increasing gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian and conflict contexts, address the root causes in a sustainable way and to contribute to lasting change, Switzerland provides targeted, multi-year funding for GBV prevention and response, and invests in rights-based and survivor-centred projects of three key partners. Gender-based violence (GBV)1 is the most prevalent human rights violation in the world, a key challenge to achieving SDG 5 and a systematic harmful pattern in both conflict and non-conflict settings with estimated cost of 2% of global GDP (USD 1.6 billion). One in three women and girls globally have been subjected to intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both at least once in their lives, with devastating immediate and long-term impacts on physical and mental health, education and economic well-being. The root cause of GBV is gender inequality and gender stereotypes which requirescommunity-based action against GBV. Objectives Promote and support quality assistance and services for survivors of gender-based violence that are safe, as well as influence normative frameworks around gender-based violence. |
