Strategic Framework for the Prevention of and Response to Gender-based Violence in Eastern, Southern and Central Africa

The purpose of this strategic framework is to assist the United States Agency for International Development Office for Easterna nd Central Africa (USAID/ECA), the United Nations Children’s Fund East and Southern Africa Regional Office (UNICEF/ESAR), and governments and civil society in the eastern, central, and southern Africa region to improve and expand their programmatic efforts to prevent and respond to Gender-based Violence (GBV),in the five key sectors and at multiple levels.  The strategic framerwork also an serve as a tool to advocate for more broad-based initiatives.