Response to Gender-Based Violence 25-29

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. 

• Survivors  of  Gender-Based  Violence  and  their communities 
• Multilateral agencies and  fora,  such  as  the UN System 
• Governmental  and  nongovernmental  actors working on gender-based violence  
• Gender-Based violence practitioners  

1. Service delivery to survivors of GBV is enhanced  
2. Swiss priorities are embedded in global norms and international discourse on GBV  
3. Enhanced accountability, learning and knowledge production, especially at a local level 

Expected results:  

Selected key outputs include, but are not limited to:  

• O1: Population in need / at risk of GBV that receive specialized care  
• O1: CRSV survivors receive interim reparative measures 
• O2: Advocacy efforts lead to policy, programmatic  and  legislative  changes  at international and national levels 
• O3:Technical  assistance  to  governments, civil society and practitioners 
• O3:Local actors, especially Women-led Organisations  and  survivors,  have  increased leadership in GBV coordination  

Results from previous phases:  

Global  Survivors  Fund  (GSF):  Over  3000 survivors  of  Conflict-Related  Sexual Violence  have  received  interim  reparative measures  since  2020,  8 governments  received technical support.  

United  Nations  Population  Fund,  Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (UN-FPA  GBV  AoR):  The  GBV  AoR  helpdesk treated  over  100  inquiries  from  the  field  in 2023.  

Conflict-related Sexual Violence Multi-Partner Trust Fund (CRSV MPTF): In 2023 in the DRChundreds  of  survivors  of  CRSV  received support, same as  in Ukraine and  in Mali, where more than 6500 survivors were reached through one project alone.