Part II: The Project 2.1. Introduction JCT, ZWLA and WLSA in 2014 started implementing the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) project in Bindura, Makoni and Beitbridge districts. The project sought to strengthen responses to gender-based violence at community level and to enhance service delivery and holistic support to survivors of GBV in line with the Multil-Sectoral Protocol on the Management of Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe (Protocol) and the Constitution of Zimbabwe. Although implemented in just over one year, the project managed to reach out to over 5,000 beneficiaries through the provision of legal aid which was complemented by the empowerment of community focal persons, legal awareness campaigns, dialogues with the local traditional leadership and the formation of empowerment circles for GBV survivors. All the interventions were done at community level, hence ensuring sustainable solutions to local issues. The project sought to respond and strengthen community gender-based violence service delivery and holistic support targeting adolescent girls and young women in line with the Multi-Sectoral Protocol on the Management of Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe and the Constitution. This project is drawn against one of government’s key focus on improve utilization of comprehensive quality services for protection, care and support for GBV survivors in accordance with the National Gender Based Violence Strategy. Gaps and challenges such as poor service delivery, coverage, and human capacity competencies have crippled comprehensive access to justice and support for survivors of GBV. Therefore this project aims to mitigate the effects of gender based violence on adolescent girls and young women by the provision of comprehensive survivor sensitive services in three selected districts of Zimbabwe. Identified strategies will include capacity building, formation of support groups targeting GBV survivors and offenders, evidence based data collection and documentation, learning and sharing circles, gender-sensitive legal information centres and decentralized access to legal services through the provision of legal aid mobile clinics to complement government’s Legal Aid Directorate. Zimbabwe has a strong legal framework to prevent all forms of gender-based violence. The country’s constitution through Section 25(b) calls on the state to take measures to protect gender-based violence. The constitutional provisions are supported by provisions in the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) that was put in place to protect women, men and children from violence, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act and the Children’s Act. In addition to statutes, Zimbabwe has developed programmes that seek to address prevention of gender-based violence including: 4Ps (Prevention, Protection, Participation and Programmes) campaign on zero tolerance to GBV and the National GBV Strategy