Wellington Mudyawabikwa, the Beitbridge Acting District Development Officer for MWAGCD weighed in saying the project approach of working in partnerships has enabled the stakeholders to speak “’with one voice’’ At community level, the project managed to build the capacity of Ministry of Women Affairs officers working among communities in tackling GBV interventions, and strengthening of GBV Information Management Systems. 3.8. Conclusion The project worked to improve utilisation of comprehensive quality services for the protection, care and support for GBV survivors in accordance with the National GenderBased Violence Strategy. The three organisations had noted gaps and challenges such as poor service delivery, coverage, and human capacity competencies had continued to cripple comprehensive access to justice and support for survivors of GBV. As part of the interventions, the project aimed at mitigating the effects of gender-based violence on adolescent girls and young women by scaling up of provision of comprehensive survivor sensitive legal services in the three districts. These included legal awareness campaigns to strengthen legal aid, capacity building of CFPs and realignment of their structures, strengthened support groups targeting GBV survivors, documentation, strengthened responses at community level, gender-sensitive legal information centres and decentralised access to legal services through the provision of legal aid mobile clinics to complement government efforts. The key highlights and messages of the interventions are summarised below: • • • The project worked as a consortium coordinated by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Strengthened community structures such as the Community Focal Persons and Traditional Leaders. These were engaged in empowering communities through awareness raising and addressing GBV issues through community dialogues as well as referring cases for legal and other services; Empowered communities, including through the empowerment circles; and the provision of comprehensive services to survivors with the three organizations focusing on legal services but ensuring that survivors still get other services hence the link with partners working under UNICEF. The project’s model for legal services involved the use of mobile clinics and help desks.