This project aimed at conducting a sexual violence programme landscape analysis in DRC. It developed a sustainable and dynamic knowledge base on the landscape of sexual violence programmes and NGO implementing partners; allowed for an understanding programming needs from the perspective of international and national grass-roots organisations combating sexual violence to inform the evolution of the response to sexual violence; and developed a sustainable platform for outreach to NGOs, raising their awareness of, and engagement with the coordination of the UN Comprehensive Strategy on combating sexual violence, incorporated into the DRC National Strategy on Gender-Based Violence (GBV). 

This project cemented a more comprehensive coordination within the multi-sectoral assistance (MSA) pillar under the National Strategy on GBV. The project enabled UNICEF to maintain a full-time staff member, based in Goma, whose responsibilities were both to oversee GBV coordination in conflict-affected Eastern DRC, and to ensure effective coordination with the national level in Kinshasa. Overall, these efforts led to better coordinated, safe, accessible and quality services for survivors across the conflict-affected zones. The funding also facilitated the finalisation and roll-out of the national protocols on minimum quality standards of care for survivors of sexual violence. In February 2012, the Government validated the four protocols developed and declared them the basis and guidelines for all service providers in DRC.  

The WPA was deployed within the UN Joint Human Rights Office (JHRO) of MONUSCO. The WPA established common standards for data collection and information storage and carried out and guided field investigations into CRSV; provided clarity on the role of different mission components through regular briefings on CRSV in Protection of Civilian forums; increased understanding of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and other government security forces on the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements (MARA) and the listing/delisting regime through regular briefings; provided support, when required on the monitoring and implementation of the FARDC Action Plan; used their expertise in the investigation of CRSV to produce a report that served as an advocacy tool at the national and provincial levels in relation to the mass rape that occurred in September 2015 in South Kivu. This resulted in the arrest of perpetrators and the conduct of an investigation shortly thereafter.