The Project In response to the high-prevalence of violence and lack of services for survivors of GBV, in 2014, the consortium of JCT, ZWLA and WLSA started implementing a Danish Development Cooperation (DANIDA) funded project – through UN Women, in the three districts. The project has four objectives:• Strengthened community structures to prevent and respond to GBV on girls and women in three districts. • Strengthened evidence-based advocacy at different levels, including at community, on GBV on girls and women. • Improved access to comprehensive survivor sensitive services, including legal services for the benefit of adolescent girls, women and their children. • Ensuring project implementation in line with objectives, learning, sharing and accountability. As part of this process of work, the consortium engaged the services of development communications specialists to document the project activities. One of the expected outcomes of the intervention by JCT, WLSA and ZWLA is strengthened evidence-based advocacy at different levels, including at community, on GBV on girls and women. The three partners have recorded successful results during the implementation of the GBV project. However, these success stories have not been documented for the purpose of sharing and learning with relevant stakeholders. There was a need, therefore, to document impact of the project in alleviating the plight of women and girls affected by GBV. Documentation would not only focus on the success stories but also lessons learnt for future programming. This summary case documentation product will present results of the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) project profiling exercise. The objective of this documentation is to assist the project to take stock of the progress and impacts that the project has made. The booklet will be used as an advocacy and learning tool among partners and stakeholders at different levels. The documentation methodology included literature review in which project documents such as the proposal and reports were considered. This guided the researchers in identifying stakeholders such as traditional leaders, community focal persons (CFPs) and clients with cases that the three organisations have dealt with or are dealing with in the three districts. This was followed and complemented by fieldwork during which key informant interviews (KIIs) and participatory focus group discussion (PFGDs) were held with findings being documented. The findings were then analysed and reduced into this booklet documenting the experiences of the project and focusing on the lessons learnt and most significant change stories.

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