Access to coordinated, survivor-centred services across health, justice, psychosocial, and legal sectors is essential to ensuring that women and girls who experience violence receive the support they need and that perpetrators are held accountable. Spotlight Initiative works to strengthen multi-sectoral response systems and the capacity of frontline institutions to deliver quality, integrated care.
In 2025, over 1.5 million people accessed gender-based violence services across Spotlight Initiative programmes. In Uganda, Spotlight Initiative-supported innovations – including mobile legal clinics, paralegal networks, and community-based case management mechanisms — strengthened survivors’ access to justice and accountability for sexual and gender-based violence. These efforts contributed to convictions in dozens of SGBV cases heard at Special High Court sessions, with over 400 survivors securing restitution and the recovery of property. In Ecuador, police officers were trained under the National Protocol on Urgent Protection Measures, strengthening institutional capacity to issue and enforce protective orders for survivors at risk.
Fragmented service delivery remains one of the most significant barriers to effective response; integrated, well-resourced systems are essential to ensuring survivors receive consistent, rights-based support regardless of where they enter the system.
Access to coordinated, survivor-centred services across health, justice, psychosocial, and legal sectors is essential to ensuring that women and girls who experience violence receive the support they need and that perpetrators are held accountable. Spotlight Initiative works to strengthen multi-sectoral response systems and the capacity of frontline institutions to deliver quality, integrated care.
In 2025, over 1.5 million people accessed gender-based violence services across Spotlight Initiative programmes. In Uganda, Spotlight Initiative-supported innovations – including mobile legal clinics, paralegal networks, and community-based case management mechanisms — strengthened survivors’ access to justice and accountability for sexual and gender-based violence. These efforts contributed to convictions in dozens of SGBV cases heard at Special High Court sessions, with over 400 survivors securing restitution and the recovery of property. In Ecuador, police officers were trained under the National Protocol on Urgent Protection Measures, strengthening institutional capacity to issue and enforce protective orders for survivors at risk.