The GBV Sub-sector, one of the technical groups within the Protection Sector, aims to address both immediate humanitarian service delivery and effective prevention and risk reduction strategies specific to Gender-based Violence (GBV). The GBV Sub-sector is working to increase direct service provision, promote safer environments, especially for women and girls (those most vulnerable to GBV), to institutionalize existing GBV mechanisms, enhance them with global good practice, and to increase the geographic and programmatic reach of GBV interventions. The GBV Sub-sector will operate at the national and regional levels in Rakhine and Kachin, to coordinate the implementation of multi-sectoral programming interventions. This will include strengthening the technical capacity of actors to effectively address GBV, filling service-level gaps to ensure a comprehensive response, advocating for GBV risk-reduction in the context of all humanitarian action, and establishing referral systems for survivors at national and regional levels.

Using a survivor-centred and rights-based approach, the objectives and actions of the GBV Sub-sector will promote a minimum set of actions to which all humanitarian actors can be held accountable for effective GBV prevention and response and will undertake its activities within a framework which promotes action based on gender analysis, participation, transparency, partnership, and survivor-centred principles.