WHO is working to strengthen the capacity, readiness and quality of health services to address GBV in its own emergency work and within the Global Health Cluster. This project is a quality assessment/quality improvement initiative to strengthen existing health services for GBV survivors in humanitarian settings.

An interdisciplinary team of WHO, JHU and in-country collaborators will use mixed methods approaches to:

1) examine capacity, readiness and quality of health services in selected facilities;

2) adapt existing GBV Service Readiness Assessment/Quality Assurance Tools for humanitarian settings;

3) examine facilitators, barriers, and bottlenecks to access and provision of quality care for GBV survivors;

4) provide an adapted GBV Service Readiness Assessment/Quality Assurance Tool for implementation in humanitarian settings.