Trócaire in partnership with the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR), and funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), implemented a participatory action research project focusing on:

1. How to dismantle barriers to women-led organizations’ (WLOs) participation and leadership in GBV coordination

2. How to foster meaningful leadership of local WLOs in the GBV coordination structures/ mechanisms

3. Understanding what is needed for GBV coordination structures to better follow the leadership of WLOs

4. How to leverage spaces for WLOs’ voice and influence

5. How to measure local women’s leadership in GBV coordination