Between 2018 and 2022, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Central African Republic (CAR) took care of over 19,500 survivors of sexual violence across the country. In this report, the MSF analyses the quantitative data from the projects and emergency interventions that they supported or ran in CAR. Findings showed that while an increasing number of survivors of sexual violence (95% of whom are women) have had access to assistance over the last five years, many gaps in treatment remain.

Between 2018 and 2022, teams from MSF in the Central African Republic (CAR) took care of over 19,500 survivors of sexual violence across the country. During the same period, UNFPA documented 14,907 other cases of sexual violence in CAR reported by other humanitarian organizations working in the country, or by state structures. This report outlines the public health emergency that sexual violence has become in CAR, with recommendations to address the crisis.

This rapid gender analysis provides information and analysis about the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of women, men, boys, and girls to underpin UNRWA’s and other actors’ capacity to design and deliver gender-responsive emergency support. There are critical gaps in access to health services that particularly affect women and adolescent girls, including access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care, newborn care, and sexual and reproductive health services.

Understanding the complexities around how girls and young women exercise their power within or outside marriage is essential to better understand how to support girls and young women. This report aims to do just that and to more fully recognize the experiences and needs of girls and young women who are already married. This report highlights the struggles, including a high risk of violence and negative traditional gender roles, these girls and young women are facing while attempting to find a better situation for themselves, and offers recommendations for policy and programming.

Conflict and fragility can increase women and girls’ exposure to gender-based violence (GBV) and make it more difficult for them to access social services, including sexual and reproductive health services. This evaluation uses several elements to assess the Bank Group’s country support for women and girls’ economic empowerment and GBV prevention and response.

This report shares highlights from Coligação para Eliminação dos Casamentos Prematuros (CECAP, the Girls Not Brides National Partnership to End Child Marriage in Mozambique), a civil society organization collective invested in strengthening their gender-transformative skills, knowledge, and leadership to systematically analyze and address the root causes of gender inequality at the individual and systems levels. This report includes a review of the evidence and data, the partnership's gender-transformative ranking, and a road map of priorities for collective action to advance girls' rights.