Democratic Republic of Congo - Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Project (English)

Ratings for the Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Project for Democratic Republic of Congo were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial. Some lessons learned included: heavy reliance upon a sole independent government agency for implementation, such as the FSRDC, as well as specialized technical structures, limited the project's scope for strengthening fiduciary and technical capacity of traditional ministry structures for future sustainability of GBV prevention and response programming. Engagement with women's community-based structures provided the project with a local base for launching a wide range of community mobilization and economic support activities and also served as an effective bridge between prevention activities and survivor support. Specialized mental health care interventions, such as NET, can be delivered as effectively by trained community-based non specialists as technical health professionals. The project benefitted from its design flexibility to be able to respond to the high demand for VSLAs from the communities and invested resources to implement EMAP and other community mobilization activities; it accordingly collected associated monitoring data from partners at provincial level. Given the significant expansion of services and increase in participation in these activities, however, the project would have benefitted from consolidating locally reported monitoring data to track and provide an overall picture of activity performance for these various prevention and mobilization interventions.