This project strengthened the UN system response to GBV in the context of on-going insecurity by bridging the gaps between humanitarian and political actors in Côte d’Ivoire through the funding of a GBV Technical Specialist. It developed integrated protection measures, reinforced service delivery and improved data management in the context of the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements (MARA) (creation of a database for MARA among UN entities implementing programs on GBV). Furthermore, the GBV technical specialist finalised the National Strategy against GBV agreed during a UN Action mission in 2012 and organised its official launch in 2014. 

The deployment of a WPA aimed to implement the CRSV mandate, based on a four-pronged approach which included building the capacity of mission components to address CRSV, establishing the MARA on CRSV, addressing CRSV commitments with all concerned parties, and strengthening coordination within UNOCI, as well as with the UNCT and other partners. The WPA released a report on rape, including CRSV cases, and their prosecution in Côte d’Ivoire in 2016. Following its publication, two ministerial circulars were adopted; one concerning the prosecution of rape and the other on the registration of complaints for GBV. A workshop presenting the results of the mapping of the National Strategy ended with a final communiqué requesting the government to accelerate the launch and implementation of the National Programme on sexual and GBV (SGBV). The communiqué was officially endorsed by the Ministry of Solidarity, Family, Women and Children. Moreover, following an intense advocacy campaign to create a national structure on CRSV, President Alassane Ouattara signed a decree on 3 June 2016 (n°2016-373) establishing a National Committee on CRSV.  

The project contributed to strengthening the investigation and reporting capacities of the national human rights institutions and civil society organisations (CSOs) on women’s human rights/SGBV/CRSV; building capacities of national actors to prevent and respond to SGBV/Women’s human rights; and supporting state institutions and non-state actors to bring justice to CRSV survivors. A Joint Mechanism bringing together the FACI, the national human rights commission, UNDP and the National Committee on Fighting against CRSV (CNLVSC) was created with the support of the TOE. The Committee is in charge of coordinating Government efforts to prevent and respond to CRSV and led to the systematic inclusion of the unit “Fight against sexual violence in conflict” in all trainings for the FACI, Police and Ivoirian Customs. Additionally, an early warning mechanism on CRSV was conceptualized in collaboration with the NGO WANEP.