Content_paragraphs:  Local authorities, community leaders and other partners facilitated awareness
  
  sessions in Berberati, Birao, Bossangoa, Bouar, Bria and Ndélé to reduce
  
  transhumance-related tensions, with the support of MINUSCA. The Mission and the
  
  United Nations country team supported national and local authorities, women’s
  
  organizations and youth organizations in mapping emerging transhumance routes and
  
  collecting data on gender-based violence in Ouham and Ouham-Pendé Prefectures to
  
  inform targeted, preventive and responsive protection activities. 
  
   
  
   
  
   VII. Extension of State authority and the rule of law 
   
  
   
  
    Extension of State authority