Building Capacity of GBV AoR UNFPA-UNICEF Funding provided through this initiative provides support for a joint United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Project 'Building Capacity of The Gender-Based Violence Area-of-Responsibility to address Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings'. Gender-based violence (GBV) is at endemic levels in many of the world's humanitarian emergencies. The victims are overwhelmingly women and girls who are targeted in times of armed conflict and a means to harm, humiliate, terrorise and control populations; The impacts of GBV are devastating and include physical injury or death, HIV, unwanted pregnancies, fistula and long-term psychological trauma. The project will directly address identified gaps in GVB prevention and response capacity in humanitarian settings by: strengthening the evidence base for defining and supporting sound GBV coordination and prevention and response programming; establishing the capacity to rapidly deploy 'First Responders' th