Strengthening women and youth at risk of gender based violence
Challenges and opportunities for enhancing resilience, with a focus on urban contexts and adolescent girls
Categories: Global Public Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies
Sub-Categories: Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual and Reproductive Health
Country: Uganda
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2022
Citation: "Strengthening women and youth at risk of gender based violence: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing resilience, with a focus on urban contexts and adolescent girls." CARE International. April 2022.
Sub-Categories: Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual and Reproductive Health
Country: Uganda
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2022
Citation: "Strengthening women and youth at risk of gender based violence: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing resilience, with a focus on urban contexts and adolescent girls." CARE International. April 2022.
Executive Summary
This learning brief documents challenges, capacities and opportunities of women and youth at risk of gender based violence (GBV), in particular in urban areas in Northern Uganda. It summarizes key findings from various studies of the Women and Youth Resilience Project (WAYREP), including two Rapid Gender Analyses, the baseline, knowledge model papers, and a qualitative assessment.
WAYREP’s overall objective is to “Strengthen the resilience of refugee and Ugandan women, girls and youth to live a life free from violence in Uganda”. WAYREP focuses on women and girls’ empowerment within the context of some of Uganda’s most pressing current challenges such as rapid urbanization, regular and high rates of displacement and migration across and within Uganda’s borders and a very young and largely unemployed population. In 2020, this fragile context was further exacerbated with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic not only in terms of its health implications, but also in terms of its impact on livelihoods, safety and security.