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Gender-based violence can have serious long-term and life-threatening consequences for victims/survivors. These can range from permanent disability or death to a variety of physical, psycho-social and health-related problems that often destroy the survivor’s self-worth and quality of life, and expose her or him to further abuse.

Such factors are frequently aggravated in times of conflict and displacement as the rule of law is eroded and families and societies are torn apart. The result is often an increase in both the frequency and brutality of gender-based violence.

In its worst form, gender-based violence has become a weapon of war, intentionally directed against and aimed at terrorizing, displacing and destroying certain communities or ethnic groups.

The goal is to design intervention systems that address and tackle the physical, social and cultural barriers to violence prevention and response in humanitarian crisis situations such as reducing the vulnerability of Women and girls when leaving their communities in search of work, food, water and/or firewood; bridge the access gap to education, livelihood opportunities, shelter, food, water, fuel, and income generation to reduce the exposure to GBV.