This primer is intended to assist the work of civil society and other actors in relation to SGBV during, and in the wake of, the summit. The primer seeks to highlight some main SGBV aspects of the formal framework of the ICGLR. These include:
- the ICGLR Protocol on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children (Sexual Violence Protocol);
- the relationship among various ICGLR instruments, including their relationship with the Sexual Violence Protocol;
- what the ICGLR means by “sexual violence” and “SGBV”;
- the SGBV-related aspects of various ICGLR legal instruments, institutions and plans; and
- progressive and retrogressive elements of the ICGLR’s formal anti-SGBV agenda.