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In 2023, three already existing and protracted crises deteriorated to the point where the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) announced a system-wide scale-up (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and Sudan). In each case, increasing Protection concerns were noted as key rationale for the new response posture. Across all three contexts, increasing reports of gender-based violence (GBV) were a trigger for scale-up, with actors across the humanitarian system raising alarms about GBV both before and after scale-ups have gone into place.
System-wide scale-up was immediately welcomed by the GBV Sub-Sector Sudan. With increased violence and displacement after 15 April, the number of people in need of GBV services increased by over 1 million (to 4.2 million people)1 - and the number of individuals targeted for GBV services increased to 1.3 million.2 This large increase was despite targeting figures being adjusted to the realities of access, which meant that in some states, where access was analysed to be nearly impossible, the GBV Sub-Sector Sudan actually significantly diminished targets.
Current trends are deeply worrying as tensions and violence have once again flared in November, particularly in Darfur states. As the total number of IDPs exceeds 7 million, the GBV people in need (PIN) figure is expected to increase for the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2024 to 6.9 million3 , with a target 1.8 million, and a financial requirement of 62.8 million USD.