Up-scaling the multi-sectoral services provided at the three Mid-Way transitional Houses with an additional socio-economic empowerment/livelihood component--Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 GBV survivors - residing in Lebanon ABAAD’s Mid-Way Houses, free and temporary safe shelters for women at risk or survivors of GBV, located in three different governorates in Lebanon and which provides services for adolescent girls, single and married women along with their children. Survivors of sexual or gender-based violence can seek different kinds of Clinical care, engage in individual or group therapy and take part of numerous vocational activities. In a confidential and safe environment, women are able to gather information and explore their options, with the assistance of trained professionals. Immediate safe-housing (24/7), crisis counseling, emergency support and information on legal rights and legal consultations (short term cases), psycho-social support, referrals for long-term welfare provision, income assistance and access to resources are all available. To meet the requirement of this activity, These Safe shelters, during the lifetime of the project support 490 beneficiaries (198 women, 181 girls and 111 boys),benefited from services related to enhancing their self-esteem, increasing their life management skills, providing emotional support, decreasing physical and psychological harm and enabling women’s long-term safety and empowerment, as follows: - 379 right-holders women &girls benefited from Case Management services [1] (average of 5 case management sessions per beneficiary) - 225 Awareness sessions - 12 forensic doctor report - 42 psychiatric consultation - 217 right-holder benefited from psychotherapy sessions - 175 beneficiaries benefited from legal consultations in-house and referred - 223 right-holder benefited from recreational activity sessions - 229 right-holder benefited from life skills sessions using the Basic Life Skills Programme (BLSP) . As a part of ABAAD’s holistic and multi-sectoral services provided in the Mid-Way Houses MWH, ABAAD offered with a socio-economic component in order to enhance the level of knowledge and potentially the skills of the women that need to build specifically a professional plan. Effectively, the girls and women going to the shelter find themselves without resources and in need for a job once they are out of the shelter. In order to ensure the highest standard for the above activities, ABAAD investigated the best suitable, effective and sustainable ways to upscale the MWHs with the socio-economic empowerment SEE component, thus, ABAAD sub-contracted Safadi Foundation (SF), as a well-known NGO in Lebanon in the field of socio-economic development and PALWHO as a well-known women Palestinian organization working in the Palestinian camps., were they Between August and October 2017, ABAAD completed a Due Diligence process for the organization, including organizational and financial capacity assessment. Additionally under this activity, ABAAD team coordinated internally across different departments for the purchasing, delivery and setting up of IT labs in each Mid-way House. The logistics team procured a total of 45 laptops, necessary furniture and other needed stationary following the details of ABAAD procurement policies. Each of the center received 15 laptops and needed furniture to refurbish one of the existing rooms into an IT lab. After their physical completion, ABAAD programs team recruited 3 IT trainers based on ABAAD’s recruitment policy, and selected 1 qualified consultant for each of the 3 respective areas (where the MWH are located). Each of the consultants was inducted to ABAAD internal policies including CoC, child protection, PSEA and received an induction to the operational mode of the MWH. Following that, each of the consultant closely worked with ABAAD program’s team to tailor their workshops based on the expressed needs by the women residing in the shelters, coupled with an assessment of their literacy skills and abilities to use the computers (annex #20). The total number of participants targeted through these workshops totaled to 135 women (45 women in each MWH).