Part IV: Challenges and Opportunities Even though the project has been successfully implemented since 2014, challenges still remained: • There was a gap in knowledge by communities in seeking help from service providers on GBV violations, for example, sexual abuse, and domestic violence and maintenance defaults. For instance, the pregnancy termination cases handled revealed late reporting, efforts to settle cases at family or community level and harmful beliefs as major causes of late termination of pregnancy on young girls. • A culture of silence on abuse by caretakers of survivors. • General ignorance of legal processes and procedures by the traditional courts coupled by deep set attitudes and social norms. • Lack of safe shelters for survivors was a big challenge to survivors of GBV who were being abused by family members. The survivors became even more vulnerable where perpetrators were either not arrested or released from prison on bail. Most survivors of GBV are forced to go back and stay with the same perpetrators in their families, or in the same community. • Limited or no knowledge of constitutional provisions protecting women, girls and children. • Lack of clarity on the criminal law on child marriage and gaps in implementation of strategies to reduce child marriage. • Slow progress on realignment of laws such as marriage laws to the Constitution. • Limited coordination at district, provincial and national level on GBV. • In Beitbridge many maintenance and domestic violence cases are still pending because the perpetrators have left the country to escape from justice. • In Makoni and Bindura, most men are unemployed hence they default on maintenance payment. Children continue to be denied their rights, resulting in a general lack of faith in the justice system. • There is still a significant number of children without birth certificates because of, inter alia, the difficulties encountered by parents in raising money for transport and other requirements, failure to meet the requirements and withholding of birth confirmation records. This has implication to child protection as in cases of having sexual intercourse with a young person where age has to be proved and enjoyment of other rights by children.